Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A prime example this year has been the committee 's extensive concern with the prospect of standard fees being introduced in the magistrates ' courts , with the risks which that will bring to the most junior members of the profession . |
| 2 | It is to protect non-smokers from the health risks of passive smoking — risks which all those concerned with the welfare of employees , or the public at large , are having to face up to . |
| 3 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 4 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |
| 5 | Those who manage the company do not own the company , If the managers of the company display the characteristics which economic theory credits to all other individuals they will be concerned to maximize their own utility rather than the profits of the company . |
| 6 | Henry Maudsley in the 1860s , for example , developed the notion that masturbatory insanity was characterised by intense self-regard and conceit , extreme perversion of feeling and corresponding deranging of thought , and later by failure of intelligence , nocturnal hallucinations , and suicidal and homicidal propensities , all characteristics which doomed the boy to social disaster . |
| 7 | Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in particular situations . |
| 8 | Noreen would come on first as before with her song — and then be joined by ‘ Mary ’ who would take the melody while Noreen harmonised and then Maria would conclude with a solo — usually ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ — and they would finish together with ‘ Let Him Go Let Him Tarry ’ , another of the O'Neil family songs which both knew backwards . |
| 9 | Instinctively she took a step away from him , her senses reeling as she felt the blood drain away from her face , and heard the buzzing in her ears which forewarned her that she was near to fainting . |
| 10 | The Stanford School of Medicine ( which has some 8000 animals in stock ) and the University of California-San Francisco claim that ‘ the legislation creates a great irony by increasing the number of animals which each year will be euthanased instead of being transferred to research facilities . |
| 11 | You may find that the animals which first come to the microhabitat are eaten by animals which arrive later . |
| 12 | It was , after all , the conquest and settlement of Siberia in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries which more than anything else — at least in terms of territorial aggrandizement — originally transformed the land-locked mediaeval Tsardom of Muscovy into the mighty Russian Empire , giving the government in Moscow and then St Petersburg virtually unchallenged , absolute sway over the whole of northern Eurasia and its polyglot peoples . |
| 13 | Before considering the various methods which various owners and developers have adopted to achieve the satisfactory conversion of church buildings to domestic use , it is important to be aware of the procedure through which the majority of churches become available for conversion . |
| 14 | Fourthly , the skills and methods which social workers developed during the welfare state era are relevant as never before ( Department of Health and Social Security , 1985 ; Parsloe , 1988 ; Department of Health , 1989 ) : psychosocial assessments , direct work with children , maintaining links , interprofessional collaboration . |
| 15 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 16 | This section describes the chart-based lexical access component and the theoretical and practical considerations which motivated certain choices in its design . |
| 17 | Second , the formulation of the Authority 's educational policies and programmes , especially those which teachers are expected to translate into day-to-day practice , should from now on be grounded in prior consultation with teachers and others , together with analysis of relevant conceptual and empirical research , and those devising such policies and programmes should be able to justify them in terms of the considerations which this process will reveal . |
| 18 | It is more likely that what connects creativity to madness is some aspect of the thought styles which psychotic and original forms of thinking have in common and which , in the psychiatric domain , can be observed across the arbitrary diagnostic categories of psychosis . |
| 19 | Even within the bounds of their overwhelming devotion to Gothic they showed by the end of the century an openness to new styles which other denominations were not as quick to learn . |
| 20 | Effective deployment of the larger reserves which this system made available required intricate staff work . |
| 21 | He failed conspicuously to do so and continues to side-step any commitment to taking the effective steps which many senior military experts believe could at least limit the damage , by calling from time to time for a mere tightening of sanctions against Serbia . |
| 22 | Due to the radio waves which this equipment gives off , an electrical current is induced into the water . |
| 23 | Development technician Dave said : ‘ At the moment the proposals are very much up in the air but we are hoping to plan mixed weekend trips which both groups would enjoy . ’ |
| 24 | It is also the case that the two commonly used relationships with ratios often and 100 concern millimetres , centimetres and metres and are perhaps the units which most pupils use most frequently . |
| 25 | Maplin Electronics , one of Europe 's largest electronic component suppliers , has introduced a range of three tripods which all have fluid controlled tilt and pan dampers . |
| 26 | Maplin Electronics , one of Europe 's largest electronic component suppliers , has introduced a range of three tripods which all have fluid controlled tilt and pan dampers . |
| 27 | Milium effusum ( Bowles golden grass ) has light seedheads which air-dry very well . |
| 28 | The contradictions which this model engenders are somehow even more glaringly obvious in the context of diseases of poverty , with the vicious circle of malnutrition and infectious , though preventable , diseases ( 2 ) . |
| 29 | One glimpse of the world 's most spectacular waterfall makes up for the tiresome form-filling in baking customs halls which any African border crossing entails — neither Botswana nor Zimbabwe are suitable for those who wilt quickly in the heat or ca n't stomach light aircraft . |
| 30 | Despite the inevitable uncertainties and anxieties which such major change might represent , she stressed the need for investment in education and training , and for more effective manpower planning and deployment if health care in the UK was to be put on a stronger and more confident foundation : |