Example sentences of "which [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Though I have world-wide business interests which entail quite a lot of travelling . ’
2 A couple of recent collections which bring together a range of articles on a variety of topics are 'Femininity' , ‘ Masculinity ’ and ‘ Androgyny ’ : A Modern Philosophical Analysis , edited by Mary Vetterling-Braggin ( 1982b ) and the special issue of Radical Philosophy ( 1983 ) on ‘ Women , Gender and Philosophy ’ .
3 As far as the new rent is concerned , options fall into four categories : ( 1 ) options to renew " at a rent to be agreed " : such options are void for uncertainty unless some provision is made for determination of the rent in default of agreement ( King 's Motors ( Oxford ) Ltd v Lax [ 1969 ] 3 All ER 665 ) or some provision is made for a minimum or a maximum rent ( Corson v Rhuddlan BC [ 1990 ] 1 EGLR 255 ) ; ( 2 ) options to renew at a rent to be determined in accordance with some stated formula , without any effective machinery for working it out : if necessary the court will supply the machinery in such cases ( Brown v Gould [ 1972 ] Ch 53 ) ; ( 3 ) options with machinery but no detailed formula : in such cases the court is likely to imply a term that the rent is to be fair and reasonable between the landlord and the tenant and will supply machinery for its determination ( Sudbrooke Trading Estate Ltd v Eggleton [ 1982 ] 3 All ER 1 ) ; ( 4 ) options which provide both a formula and the machinery for working it out : the draftsman should attempt to make his draft fall into this category .
4 Two decades later , policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death , with that amount ravaged by inflation in the intervening period , have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting .
5 Some policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting
6 Between the forms which accommodate features diagnostic of an individual workshop and those which show only a structural similarity to other mosaics in the region , a picture of the developments of patterns in the wider context of south-western England emerges .
7 The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality .
8 An 1853 Supreme Court decision which set aside a conviction on the charge of ‘ taking forcible and unlawful possession of the product of the Complainant 's garden ’ may serve as an example .
9 Bodies such as Links and the Spastic Society which produce quite a substantial report at the last election to illustrate what the problems were then there will be established designated polling stations in which there will be various characteristics required such as wheelchair access , unaided wheelchair access , although the problem of accessibility is for more people than those people who are in wheelchairs and many people who are not registered disabled and are mainly old and infirm , should have the opportunity to exercise their franchise readily and easily .
10 Problems are more likely to arise from an increase in the number of small enquiries which generate only a modest income but which impinge on the time of core staff .
11 Actually , resistance is more likely to occur with prolonged exposure to large dosages which leave only a few ‘ resistant ’ individuals to form the nucleus of the next generation ; and it is one of the characteristics of pests that a few individuals can rapidly give rise to large populations .
12 He notes the self-perpetuating nature of modern mass production : ‘ Thus vast supplies of products come into existence which call forth an artificial demand that is senseless from the perspective of the subject 's culture ’ ( 1968 : 43 ) , and argues that just as academic pursuits such as philology and archaeology , which start with certain aims , may develop as methods creating infinite classificatory refinements for their own sake , so people may become the mere instrument of that which they originally developed : ‘ The infinitely growing supply of objectified spirit places demands upon the subject , creates desires in him , hits him with feelings of individual inadequacy and helplessness , throws him into total relationships from whose impact he can not with-draw , although he can not master their particular contents ’ ( 1968 : 44 ) .
13 These consist very largely of colleges of technology and technical colleges which offer only a minority of advanced courses and where most of their students are in the sixteen to nineteen age group and taking non-advanced courses .
14 The dynamics of different transducing mechanisms have been compared in NIH 3T3 cells , which carry both a G protein-linked receptor ( bradykinin ) and a tyrosine kinase-linked receptor ( PDGF ) .
15 But if the objective of the advertising for such a brand is , in fact , to talk to newcomers to the market ( and there are always newcomers to any market ) , or to the unconverted , or to disloyal users of other brands , there is , obviously , a very clear , specific case for ads which carry quite a lot of information , presented in a suitably attractive way .
16 The next three chapters address special issues which affect only a proportion .
17 The best questions to ask in a survey are those which require only a single word/phrase or a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ answer .
18 It was based on the Treaty of Rome 's provisions governing the Common Agricultural Policy , which require only a qualified majority .
19 This service often involves breaking security systems , most of which take about a minute to get through .
20 Okay that 's all I wanted to say about voltage gated channels then , let's erm turn our attention to so-called ligand gated channels which form rather a discrete class .
21 At a base in Hereford , which trains bomb disposal men in the army 's toughest course , bomb teams demonstrated modern explosives … incendiary devices , letter bombs which contain just a few ounces of Semtex , and car bombs , at one pound , just half the size of those favoured by the IRA .
22 Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data .
23 Then the landscapes at La Rue-des Bois which are influenced by Cézanne are still related in many ways to Picasso 's more ‘ primitive ’ or ‘ Negroid ’ work ; indeed , this series of paintings begun in La Rue-des-Bois is contemporary with other canvases which represent only a continuation of his earlier work ; some of the simplest of the La Rue-des-Bois landscapes , with their almost naive interpretation of houses and trees , remind one strongly of the art of the Douanier Rousseau .
24 The value of the statistics from poor countries which have neither a large statistical staff nor routine data collection activities is often especially questionable .
25 Whereas some areas have a per capita income level well above the EC average , there simultaneously exist areas which have just a fraction of that average .
26 He suggests the importance of community " units " like that of the parish , which have both a religious and social dimension .
27 The two database management systems are closely integrated to allow the solution of questions which have both a locational and a non-spatial content .
28 Almost all the words which have both a strong and weak form belong to a category that may be called function words — words that do not have a dictionary meaning in the way that we normally expect nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs to have .
29 And as ‘ mass communication ’ changes technologically and fragments ( we are already seeing ‘ broadcasting ’ diminish and ‘ narrow casting ’ — the targeting of specialist publics grow ) , communications theorists continue to develop models which have both an analytical and a predictive function .
30 There is nothing regular or reproducible about these experiences , which have indeed a certain quality of uniqueness .
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