Example sentences of "which [be] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms .
2 The fourth year focuses on the development of field and laboratory skills through the medium of group and individual projects , many of the topics for which are developed in a course on Environmental Problems and Issues .
3 TNC believes that a clearer specification of the curriculum , combined with attainment targets which are assessed within a framework of greater accountability , is enough to raise levels of achievement — by a combination of a clearer specification of the levels of achievement to be reached , and external pressure on teachers to deliver the results .
4 These are damaged vascular cushions lining the rectum and anus which are aggravated as a result of the hormonal changes during pregnancy that also cause constipation .
5 Findings which are replicated throughout a number of countries , or which can be shown to vary under specified conditions , become much more powerful since ‘ an explanatory theory of industrial relations can not be based upon the narrow range of industrial relations processes observable in one , or even a few , countries ’ ( Walker , 1967 , p. 108 ) .
6 if offences which are followed by a caution or taken into consideration are included .
7 Consider the typical structure of a news broadcast which opens with the ‘ headlines ’ — a set of summary statements — which are followed by a news item that consists of an expansion and repetition of the first headline , in which is embedded a comment from ‘ our man on the spot ’ that recapitulates the main points again , then , at the end of the broadcast , there is a repetition of the set of headlines .
8 However , the Directive does not apply to holdings in open-ended investment companies or other collective investment undertakings ; nor does it apply to holdings in companies incorporated outside the EC , although such companies which are listed on a stock exchange in a member state must make a public announcement of changes in major holdings of which they become aware ( even though there is no actual notification requirement ) .
9 What is clear , at all events , from the available studies of both earlier and more recent periods , is that economic and technological changes accomplish their political effects through the actions of specific social groups which are formed as a result of these changes .
10 The combinations of words that form compounds thereby become number sequences which are stored in a compound tree .
11 It is interesting to compare the aspects of language which are highlighted by Bullock and Stubbs with those which are highlighted in a document drawn up by a group of educationalists whose expertise is not primarily in the field of language study .
12 A ‘ Likert ’ survey is made up of a series of statements which are related to a person 's attitude to a single object , in this case using computers in school .
13 Stratus fault-tolerant systems , which are re-badged by a host of companies , including IBM Corp as the System/88 , and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA as CPS , expects the various OEM arrangements it has to carry on through into its HP era .
14 Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey .
15 Some steel furnaces were placed next to the blast furnaces and some near to tinplate works , which use thin steel sheets which are covered in a veneer of tin .
16 The customer accounting department receives 2.25m customer contacts a year , which are handled on a workflow system provided by IBM .
17 Parents must comply with the stringent rules for vehicular access , which are explained in a Headmaster 's letter .
18 D. Many merchants have seen the advantages of using the raw materials which are unloaded at a port — often called a trans-shipment point .
19 The Leicester MP led a delegation representing BCCI victims in more than an hour of talks which are seen as a prelude to a meeting between MPs and Chancellor Norman Lamont on March 23 .
20 Aplysia breathes through its gills , which are situated in a region called the mantle cavity ; the gill 's enclosure opens to the outside through an opening called the siphon .
21 Coppice management involves dividing a woodland into compartments , or coupes , which are cut on a rotation of five to 25 years .
22 Additionally , DCs which are generated as a result of using option 1.1.1 or option 1.1.3 are initially set to this state .
23 Divide the children into two teams and provide them with sets of corks which are placed in a bowl of water .
24 It is the task of Philosophy to confront questions which are posed in a variety of areas , to consider to what extent their answers are to be found in such subjects as Mathematics , Physical Science , Sociology , Literary Studies or Religion , and to determine how else they might be answered — where these can furnish no complete answers .
25 Understand that people have different kinds of belief which are influenced by a variety of factors
26 The result has been a policy see-saw , with governments alternating between periods of centralisation , the better to gain control , followed by a decentralising reaction against the rigidities which are caused as a consequence .
27 At the moment , the Malawi set-up holds about 60 fish , which are fed on a mixture of brine shrimp , cooked chicken , peas and cichlid pellets .
28 These instruments offer a wide range and large numbers of stops , and some provide an extra selection by means of computer cards which are fed into a slot .
29 When the clock receives the start signal it begins to generate pulses , which are fed to a microprocessor interrupt line , so that program execution is forced to transfer to the INTERRUPT entry of the motor control program .
30 The Structure and Development of Wings — Wings are thin plate-like expansions of the integument which are strengthened by a framework of hollow sclerotized tubes known as veins .
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