Example sentences of "which [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite often all these sorts of considerations interact to influence the operation of discretion , as illustrated by the following incident , which concerned a road traffic accident ( an RTA ) towards the end of a shift . |
| 2 | contrast this with the case of cohen v shaw ( release 014 ) and a similar scottish case elliott v joicy ( 1935sc ( hl ) 57 ) both of which concerned a child in utero where it was decided that a child succeeds in a claim for injuries received . |
| 3 | Michael recalls him as saying that the notion was suggested by a detective story by R. Austin Freeman , which concerned a negro knocking his brow against a bar , so that the blood issuing forth was ‘ essential ’ . |
| 4 | The other important decision was that of the Divisional Court in Reg. v. Director of Serious Fraud Office , Ex parte Saunders ( 1988 ) 138 N.L.J. 243 , which concerned a notice served on a company , G. Plc. , under section 2(3) of the Act of 1987 to produce certain documents . |
| 5 | The patent application , which concerned a piece of machinery which functioned in a certain way because of the punched cards , was allowed to proceed . |
| 6 | On the facts before it , which concerned a death from a lorry shedding its load , the court held that the police were wrong to arrest for manslaughter the person whom they thought had been driving the truck : there was a wide gap between a suspicion that somebody was driving a truck , and a suspicion that they were driving it recklessly . |
| 7 | A more recent example is Sanders v Parry [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 753 which concerned a solicitor 's practice . |
| 8 | He also distinguishes clearly between criteria which qualify a firm 's products to be considered and those which actually win the order . |
| 9 | Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ . |
| 10 | I am aware of the article to which my hon. Friend refers , which involves a case that was tried in Israel , and of the fact that , apparently , KGB records recently made available in Moscow suggest that there was mistaken identification . |
| 11 | However , he said the whole project , which involves a range of authorities from Tendring District Council to English Nature , could take up to ten years to complete . |
| 12 | For example , the well-established tradition of ‘ community studies ’ , which involves a researcher or a team of researchers using a wide variety of methods to study a whole community , has been producing work in both Britain and the USA almost continuously since the 1920s . |
| 13 | Typically , this could occur in the context of a bona fide business reorganisation , which involves a change in your terms of employment . |
| 14 | The ‘ dialogic ’ , which involves a plurality of voices , was particularly characteristic of the novel . |
| 15 | We wish to make simple distinctions between sign languages ( BSL , ASL and so on ) ; sign systems , which will draw on sign language vocabulary but add features of the spoken language ( signed English ( UK ) , Signed Swedish , Seeing Exact English ) , or which have a manufactured vocabulary ( Paget-Gorman Sign System ) ; fingerspelling ; sign vocabularies , which reflect the meaning of sign languages and spoken languages without necessarily adopting inflections from either ( Makaton , Cued Speech ) ; and Total Communication which involves a mixture of one or more of these with spoken language . |
| 16 | Hilton says that the possibility of reformation thus open to man 's free choice has two aspects : first , reformation in faith which is based on the process of recognition and destruction of the image of sin which has occupied the greater part of Scale 1 ; and second , reformation in feeling which involves a development possible for some who can progress further to an inner freedom and joy which such discipline enables . |
| 17 | An argument can certainly be made that , since it is the very characteristics of nuclear weapons which make their use illegal , any deployment of nuclear weapons which involves a threat of their use is an illegal threat of force . |
| 18 | Applying these criteria , it seems to me that the type of deployment of nuclear weapons which can most clearly be argued to entail an illegal threat of force is one which involves a threat of first use of nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | ‘ Aqua Fortis ’ intros with a gentle lapping of waves before thickening into a pulsing yet controlled hypno-technological dream and is supported by the scary ‘ Asylum 3 ’ , which involves a story about some magic toys and sets up the rest of the track for a chilling rollercoaster ride into a spooky world that you really do n't want to enter . |
| 20 | The doctrine of consideration provides that a promise will bind the promisor only if it is given as the price for another 's promise or as the price for an action which involves a detriment to the promisee . |
| 21 | Results of Tim Wright 's research on transfer of writing skills from LSS to mainstream classrooms and benefits/problems of doing research which involves a number of other colleagues . |
| 22 | Results of Tim Wright 's research on transfer of writing skills from LSS to mainstream classrooms and benefits/problems of doing research which involves a number of other colleagues . |
| 23 | Her company operates the NAFD scheme , which involves a lump sum being paid into a trust in advance . |
| 24 | There is also an increasing trend towards agroforestry which involves a combination of tree and agricultural crops ; the silvicultural component may be used to provide a crop and to ensure environmental protection . |
| 25 | A regime called Training By Assignment , which involves a period of learning followed by practical application , is being used increasingly at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby , UK . |
| 26 | Consider this extract , which involves a sequence of short sentences ( we have added numbers to make the sentences easier to identify ) : ( 1 ) Both Brontë and Hardy choose to present their heroine within an organic structure . |
| 27 | Most neural nets search by some process which involves a form of convergence by successive approximations . |
| 28 | This is the appeal which involves a review of an existing line of authority without any reconsideration of it . |
| 29 | It may be highly convenient , given the all-pervasive nature of government for activities to be coordinated but even this does not require collective action and there are , indeed , many schemes of government in operation today which lack a feature such as a Cabinet . |
| 30 | Sberbank makes a handsome spread by lending these deposits to banks which lack a deposit base , charging an annualised rate of 160–200% for a three-month loan . |