Example sentences of "which [verb] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Without engaging in speculation , it can be said that relationships of this type might have acted as a channel for ideas and opinions and represented a means by which influence could be exerted .
2 Many of his utterances were , however , sermon commonplaces , to which parallels can be found in other contemporary preaching .
3 The provision of state pensions for such people was a welcome addition to the incomes of the extended households they almost invariably belonged to ; it supplemented and sometimes replaced the help which lineages would otherwise have given .
4 When this will be available has still to be announced , but Powersoft says it is part of a larger strategy in which PowerBuilder will embrace distributed network computing in addition to the client-server model which is currently its forte .
5 The new European Company may well prove to be the Eurochicken into which EEIGs will hatch , if the Commission succeeds in its renewed efforts to overcome the various problems currently inhibiting its birth .
6 In so far as the members of the professions themselves believed in such an ideal and oriented their behaviour in accordance with it ( and therefore against pure self-interest ) , they created the conditions under which trust could be offered and accepted .
7 The results showed the race would always require a strong element of commercial sponsorship , an area in which LEEL would not see itself becoming directly involved . ’
8 But Mr Hunt told the conference that , instead of phasing the system out over four years , the cross-subsidy from gainers to high-spending areas which lose would be abolished after the first year .
9 The characteristic network structures of these different types of community are also relevant to the manner in which change may come about , in so far as urban growth tends at first to weaken strong pre-existing rural networks .
10 But second , enough of an overwhelming victory for the incumbent leader to rule out what has always been the more credible avenue through which change might occur : her own apprehension , reaching her by whatever means , that perhaps the time has come to quit — before the election rather than after it .
11 The Use Classes Order prescribes classes of use within which change can take place without constituting development .
12 The monastic life was the subject on which Anselm could speak with widely recognized authority and with the power of deep personal experience .
13 This absence of small denominations would clearly limit the extent to which coinage could have been used .
14 Another area of study in which EXAFS will be valuable concerns mixed-alkali effects in glasses whereby the physical , and more particularly the electrical , properties of a glass containing a single alkali are considerably changed by introducing a second alkali .
15 The carrier Bulwark had to be sailed hastily north from Mombasa with an infantry battalion embarked to establish a forward base at Aqaba on the Red Sea , through which supplies could be despatched to Amman by road .
16 The way in which fear can control people 's minds and actions is a process as old as human experience .
17 An incipient current account deficit which persists will manifest itself as a regional problem .
18 Given all the circumstances , it is difficult to see how most of the problems which arose could have been foreseen .
19 It is sad that so many have been lost or allowed to deteriorate , but it is hoped that those survivors which remain will be cherished and preserved as reminders of other days .
20 A major subject area with which NAB will certainly have to get fully to grips is initial teacher training , and it has recently announced its intention of examining this area in time to make recommendations for 1984–5 .
21 Which hatch 'd would as his kind grow mischievous ,
22 Mm , and you would do , which turns would you do ?
23 It required local authorities to establish maternity and child welfare committees , to include at least two women , and specified services for which grants would now be made available including home helps , food for expectant and nursing mothers and children under five , creches and day nurseries .
24 The types of work for which grants may be given are : the provision of a damp-proofing course , dealing with dry or wet rot , repairs or renewal of faulty floors , ceilings or roof , installing a hot and cold water supply , adding or installing a bathroom if one does not exist in the house , installing an inside lavatory with proper drainage , extending a very small kitchen , improving the heating system ( with in some cases a grant towards the cost of installing central heating ) , and roof insulation .
25 I dare n't sing — people who 've already booked might cancel their Access — and I do n't know which sketch would compress into the thirty-four seconds I 'll undoubtedly be granted .
26 Where maturation is not synchronous , clinical signs may not occur but the adult worm burdens which develop can play a significant epidemiological role by contributing to pasture contamination in the spring .
27 There is a limited amount of money available for these payments , so social fund officers have to look at the needs of all those who apply for help and decide which needs can be met .
28 There is a distinction , originating in Freud and developed by Lacan , between ‘ need ’ , ‘ demand ’ and ‘ desire ’ in which needs can be satisfied by the adequate object ( food ) , demands , while aimed at an object , are addressed to others ( the demand for love or attention disguised as a need for food ) , while desires have no real object , relate only to fantasy , and can not be satisfied ( the desire for unity and plenitude ) .
29 Since the fire at the premises of the defendants was caused by their employee 's negligence , and since it was reasonably foreseeable that firemen would be required to attend the fire and that an explosion of the kind which occurred might result from the fire , the defendants were liable to the plaintiff .
30 It works better in another piece , beginning : ‘ If every event which occurred could be given a name , there would be no need for stories . ’
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