Example sentences of "which [vb -s] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One example of an organism possessed of such a rather basic nervous system is the tiny , pond-living hydra ( Fig 7.3 ) , which sits at the bottom of ponds and streams attached to rocks or water plants and waving its tentacles above its mouth . |
| 2 | He also threatened to call in the receiver to Mr Bond 's master corporation and to his private family company , Dallhold Investments — the firm which sits at the top of the whole debt-laden business structure . |
| 3 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 4 | Djilas believed that the dictatorship of the proletariat had produced a bureaucracy in the form of ‘ a privileged caste which lives at the expense of society as a whole ’ . |
| 5 | This is not to say that the world dictates the pattern for the Church to adopt , but to point out that the Church must be constantly examining itself to ensure that it is remaining true to the gospel and that the only barrier is the inescapable offence of the atoning message of the cross which stands at the centre of that gospel . |
| 6 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the anthropologist 's favourite stamping ground , " the study of kinship " , becomes arid and thoroughly misleading if the anthropologist concerned ever allows himself to forget that the domestic household , which stands at the core of any kinship system when viewed from the inside , is a social machine for the production of the means of subsistence and the reproduction of human beings . |
| 8 | which stands at the edge of a demolition site . |
| 9 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |
| 10 | She suggests a synthesis between the two approaches which looks at the diversity of girls ' educational experiences , and the ways in which schoolchildren challenge class and gender controls . |
| 11 | It is a history of social policy which looks at the birth of a new idea and its institutional location . |
| 12 | A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year . |
| 13 | Prudence has three heads , a youth 's which looks towards the future , a mature man 's which looks at the present , and an old man 's which looks back on the past with the wisdom of experience . |
| 14 | Finally tonight , news of a two-part report beginning tomorrow , which looks at the history of the Gloucestershire Regiment . |
| 15 | A slightly different but very stimulating approach also originating from earlier experience of chronological change is a review of Recent Earth History ( Vita-Finzi , 1973 ) which looks at the record particularly of the last 20,000 years and at methods of dating and clearly argues that : |
| 16 | Modern art is catered for with The Sixties Scene in London by David Mellor ( no relation to Britain 's erstwhile Heritage Minister of that name ) ( £29.95 ) and , most topically , Understanding Hypermedia by Bob Cotton and Richard Oliver ( £25.95 ) which looks at the impact of computer-generated imagery on contemporary art and design . |
| 17 | example A dissertation which looks at the relation between the spread of tourism in the countryside in the eighteenth century and the development of a new style of " countryside " poetry as exemplified in Wordsworth and Coleridge 's Lyrical Ballads published near the end of that century . |
| 18 | Indeed , the chairman of the committee on clinical immunology and allergy instructed it that the hearing was not a trial of alternative medicine or the provocation-neutralisation test , which lies at the centre of clinical ecology . |
| 19 | Orpiere , reached by turning west off the N75 Grenoble road about 25km north of Sisteron , is a little village which lies at the foot of a cirque of crags . |
| 20 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 21 | Harnoncourt ( ) , on the other hand , is let down by the unpredictability of his choral forces , and Gardiner ( ) is all sheen and polish , but misses the sense of the ceremonial which lies at the heart of his this most perfect of all choral masterpieces . |
| 22 | It has created 1,900 jobs but during the same period over 800 existing jobs have been lost in an area which lies at the heart of three parliamentary constituencies with some of the highest unemployment rates in Britain . |
| 23 | Indeed if we recall Dworkin 's own formulation of the principle of political equality which lies at the heart of his master-principle of equal concern and respect it would appear to support the criticisms just advanced . |
| 24 | They are more fundamentally divided by their disparate conceptions of the human individual — a fact which lies at the heart of their views of explanation . |
| 25 | Yet the importance attached to this scheme of distributive justice by advocates of choice theory encourages them to ignore the contradiction which we noticed above between the liberal ideal of individual autonomy and the moral paternalism of the principle that promises ought to be kept which lies at the heart of their theory of contract . |
| 26 | For it is precisely the fact that men have tended to be associated with that which is above , spiritual and ‘ like God ’ , whereas women have been associated with that which is below , of the earth , sexual , and ‘ unlike God ’ which lies at the heart of the problem ! |
| 27 | For some liberal historians , it is the idealism of the young rebels , their commitment to liberty or even an altruistic wish to atone for their own privileges by improving the lot of the wretched peasants and workers , which lies at the heart of the matter . |
| 28 | I turn next to the question of the undertaking in damages , which lies at the heart of the present appeal . |
| 29 | The question which lies at the heart of the appeal is whether money exacted as taxes from a citizen by the revenue ultra vires is recoverable by the citizen as of right ; if so , Woolwich will be entitled to interest on the sums repaid to it by the revenue , running from the dates when those sums were paid to the revenue by Woolwich . |
| 30 | This is the real point which lies at the heart of the present appeal ; in a sense , everything which I have said so far has done no more than set the stage for its consideration . |