Example sentences of "those [noun pl] which [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Nuclear weapons were so destructive that those states which possessed them had to be very careful about getting involved in any conflicts , whether with other nuclear states or with their allies .
2 Katherine struggled to free herself from those fingers which gripped her too fiercely , from that intelligence which probed into her .
3 Even so , the taille can sometimes be surprisingly good , especially in favourable years , and would in those Champagnes which utilise it , represent but a small proportion of the overall blend of a wine .
4 Thus , despite the development since the 1970s of a whole plethora of " critical " and " theoretical " approaches to literature , English studies remained ( and remains still ) radically inconceivable without those texts which authorize it as an area of English and literary study .
5 The treaty lays down that a single currency will come into being by 1999 , but only if those convergence conditions are met and only for those countries which meet them .
6 During the eighties the holders of debt from those countries which found it difficult to make interest payments found it impossible to take effective remedial action .
7 Although code switching is as much an " insider " activity as talking itself for those communities which practise it , it is remarkable that most communities do not have a set of " folk linguistic " categories which relate to this mode of talk .
8 Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad , the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems .
9 The Commonwealth became to politicians and men of affairs what Indirect Rule was to the DO — a chance to display those qualities which justified them in the possession of an empire , and thereby ensure its perpetuation .
10 One of the sport 's most natural drivers — no one , ever , participated in more forms of motor sport , for as long or even remotely as successfully — he favoured , as a simple man , those things which gave him simple pleasures .
11 Periods of change produce changes in those professions which reflect them ; it is the medium that does not change with its audience that is likely to suffer .
12 First , those items which make it difficult to recognise specific abilities in a child will be of less value than those which provide descriptions that can easily be applied .
13 The arrows represent pointers connecting a spanning edge with those edges which support it .
14 The culture industry does retain a trace of something better in those features which bring it close to the circus , in the self-justifying and nonsensical skill of riders , acrobats and clowns , in the ‘ defense and justification of physical as against intellectual art ’ ( Wedekind ) .
15 They will not in this way learn to control those impulses which lead them to transgress .
16 You select those instruments which give you the most relevant information at the time .
17 ( 2 ) It is difficult to know how far the success of the project should be attributed to the project itself and how far it should be attributed to those events which preceded it and provided an environment in which the project could flourish ( or wither ) .
18 Indeed the object of literary science turns out not to be an object at all , but a set of differences , and the science will consist in ‘ the study of those specifics which distinguish it [ i.e. literature ] from any other material ’ ( Eikhenbaum 1965 : 107 ) .
19 Postvocalic /r/ will be a salient feature of those dialects which have it for speakers of dialects which do not .
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