Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 2 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 3 | The farm business has a number of characteristics which set it apart from other small-scale enterprises . |
| 4 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |
| 5 | The business of travel is vital to the economic survival of such countries , but as the numbers of tourists and travellers increase , a compromise has to be reached between the identity of the host country and the ‘ golden hordes ’ of tourists which threaten to swamp it and destroy the very characteristics which make it so attractive in the first place . |
| 6 | For Marxists , too , as an area becomes developed it can acquire characteristics which make it less attractive to capitalist production . |
| 7 | But whichever approach one adopts , market coordination has characteristics which differentiate it from hierarchies and networks . |
| 8 | The upper class has clear distinctive characteristics which give it such a sense of identity : not only its ownership of productive property ( the fundamental and defining feature ) but also its distinctive culture and status hierarchy . |
| 9 | It 's a remarkable musical full of tuneful songs which give it a romantic and charmingly French flavour . |
| 10 | This included an increased degree of autonomy for Quebec ( and any of the other provinces which sought it ) through the proposed transfer of numerous powers and areas of responsibility from the federal to the provincial sphere of government . |
| 11 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 12 | In the former exhibition , George Mackie , DFC , RDI , RSW , one of this century 's leading graphic artists , confronts the challenge of explaining to layman and bibliophile alike the nature of his ‘ invisible ’ craft and the intellectual and emotional considerations which underline it , and this theme is further elaborated in the accompanying catalogue , Books , mostly scholarly and some Ephemera , designed by George Mackie , which was produced thanks to the generosity of The Stinehour Press , who printed it . |
| 13 | This type of neurotransmitter ( there are , it turns out , at least three different endorphins ) damps down pain by suppressing the signals which transmit it ; it also provides feelings of well-being . |
| 14 | In other words , it is easily reduced to the most basic units which makes it simple for computers to process . |
| 15 | The public generally should be equipped with spectacles which give it a clearer and more rounded view of the opportunities for all of an ageing Britain . |
| 16 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 17 | We have seen that war leaders of the late Middle Ages sought the achievement of their military aims either through the devastation of the countryside or , in certain circumstances , by seeking to gain control of the towns and castles which dominated it . |
| 18 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 19 | The Soviet Union 's massive ‘ second economy ’ is as legendary as the food queues and half empty shops which cause it . |
| 20 | Its circulation had grown enormously as immigrants flooded into Tollemarche , and it had expanded into the shops which flanked it on either side . |
| 21 | Managers get the blame EDUCATION managers in County Durham were blamed yesterday for keeping money away from the schools which need it most . |
| 22 | Power , that is to say , is not a single thing : it is relational , it is created in the relationships which sustain it . |
| 23 | Its authority is clearly based on Smart 's intimacy with the artist 's work and the many aspects which influenced it social ( highly important in this case ) , artistic and intellectual . |
| 24 | In ‘ The Sunday Morning Fuddle ’ the insufferably sentimental parlour ballad ‘ Before the Bells Did Ring ’ is given new words which turn it into a comic epic about Sunday morning boozing , in which the hero ends up so ‘ fuddled ’ he is arrested ( Ex. 1.10 ) . |
| 25 | Of course , hypertext is a reality today because of the availability of computer environments which make it a practical possibility . |
| 26 | Were it not for the single inconvenient occurrence in the data ( example 22 ) of they as the subject of a singular verb , we could set up an initial list of ‘ invariant ’ environments , which themselves are characteristic of this vernacular system , prior to an investigation of patterns underlying the variability in the many environments which permitted it . |
| 27 | All along its sides the railway is flanked by grass verges and small scrubby bushes which make it an ideal habitat for wild flowers and birds so keep looking for these as you walk along . |
| 28 | She vents her spleen on the war , the blackout , the Zeppelins which made it imperative to shut the shutters at night ; the price of groceries ; the petty bourgeois ; the landlords and the concierges . |
| 29 | The expectation of falling interest rates and bond yields which underpinned it has been rudely removed . |
| 30 | The equation of femaleness with housewifery is basic to the structure of modern society , and to the ideology of gender roles which pervades it . |