Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you work for a company which insists that you drive a particular brand of car , resign , first writing off the car in an accident in which two teenage hookers and a hallucinating macaw reach a rather untimely end . |
| 2 | It is fatally easy to ridic-ule these attempts to trade outside the market , but the first snags that people raise are n't to do with the mutual trust involved , but relate to the attitudes of the Inland Revenue ( which insists that payment in kind is taxable ) and of the Department of Social Security with its Minimum Earnings Rule . |
| 3 | At the other extreme is the stance taken on the MoD 's continuing tenure , which insists that it is not proper that the public continue to be excluded some of the time from all , and all of the time from some , of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles . |
| 4 | Agnes Smedley 's heroine , Marie , talks about having to shut her mother out , shut off from her , in order to protect herself against her mother 's extraordinary cruelty — while Adrienne Rich works on the feeling of severance , of being deprived of her mother in a culture which insists that the daughters turn away from the mother toward the father . |
| 5 | The choice theory picks up the libertarian strand , which insists that all state power must be legitimated by consent , whereas the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory taps the slender source of Millian liberalism to defend a broadening of the scope of contractual obligations . |
| 6 | He said it was ruled by the Id — which is selfish , the Ego — which keeps the Id in check and in touch with reality , and by the Super-ego , which insists that social expectations and duties are fulfilled . |
| 7 | It is also confusion between a proper assurance based on experience and the insight deriving from it , and the dogmatism which so easily follows but is distinct from it , and which insists that what we happen to know is the only thing that matters — what others have discovered or had revealed to them is unimportant . |
| 8 | The allegations have been strongly denied by the government , which insists that all agreed water quality standards are publicly available , and that all drinking water is safe . |
| 9 | The report has been attacked by Friends of the Earth , which insists that it represents no new departure . |
| 10 | However , its closure , ordered under new legislation which insists that the best available technology be used to combat pollution , may set a precedent for hundreds of other incinerators across the country . |
| 11 | It is this covenant which ordains that the Christian Maronites hold the presidency , the leadership of the army and the head of the judiciary while Sunni Muslims provide the prime minister and Shia Muslims the speaker of the Lebanese parliament . |
| 12 | Although a misrepresentation by B can render the contract between A and B voidable , there can be present some factor which renders that contract completely void . |
| 13 | It is the cast of mind which decrees that Henry Cotton , the most successful British golfer of the last fifty years should get an MBE rather than a knighthood , the same level of honour as a shorthand note-taker in the House of Commons or the draftsman of regulations governing haddock quotas . |
| 14 | Thus the Godardian question — ‘ who speaks in the image ? ’ — is given answer in Adornian tones : it is the ‘ system which decrees that the order of money determines the order of the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 45 ) . |
| 15 | Fractured , non-serial forms in the texts mentioned suggest a concurrence with conditions of contemporary history , summed up in Italo Calvino 's If on a Winter 's Night a Traveller ( 1982 ) which remarks that : |
| 16 | These data contrast with those of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues ( 1986 ) which opines that some 230 million people are directly threatened by desertification and that annually 21 million ha are rendered almost or completely unproductive . |
| 17 | We believe that they were present at his meeting with Keightley not least because of KP 79 which records that COS Eighth Army was to visit the Commander of 5 Corps on 13 May . |
| 18 | Once again deaf people proved a good risk , as is shown by the 1933 Annual Report , which records that " during the past two years over fifty deaf men have been insured for motoring risks . |
| 19 | Penrose has suggested that there is some physical principle ( ‘ cosmic censorship ’ ) which guarantees that all singularities lie safely within horizons . |
| 20 | At the other is the maximalist approach , which predicates that the task is not worth undertaking unless all significant aspects of the field are covered . |
| 21 | At one end is the minimalist approach , which postulates that the narrower the field the greater the likelihood that the project will be successfully completed within a reasonable time . |
| 22 | Once again , it is the oscillating motion of the cross within the circle which symbolizes that forthcoming conflict between positive , evolutionary forces and negative dissolutionary forces during life on Earth that gives birth to the Swastika in both its configurations , i.e. right-angled or left-angled . |
| 23 | Bloomsbury , £17.99 THERE is a persistent myth about Georges Simenon , inventor of Inspector Maigret , which holds that he has never received proper recognition as a novelist . |
| 24 | The new theory is a refinement of the theory of plate tectonics , which holds that continents grow steadily and systematically by a process called subduction . |
| 25 | However , there is in addition a standard objection which holds that no such lessons can be drawn at all , at least in any directly logical way , since any project of deriving ethical content from premisses of evolutionary theory commits the ‘ naturalistic fallacy ’ , an error which is today often equated with that of trying to derive ought from is . |
| 26 | The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor . |
| 27 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 28 | There is a strong tradition in philosophy which holds that we start from knowledge of our own sensory states and build up from there . |
| 29 | The deepest chord in Spanish revolutionary politics is the centralista tradition which holds that central government is an emanation from the direct democracy of the popularly elected municipality . |
| 30 | The popular misconception which holds that unless one is able to sing one is not able to take part in a musical item needs to be dispelled once and for all . |