Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the administrators concerned with the welfare of the Masai , however , it seemed that they had a very good case for keeping the enormous area which had been assigned to them . |
| 2 | For example , Nigel Lawson chaired the Sub-Committee that dealt with Lord Mackay 's proposals for reforming the legal system which were later embodied in the Courts and Legal Services Bill . |
| 3 | The responsibility for challenging the conventional wisdom which surrounds the concept of needs rests heavily on the shoulders of those teachers aware of the injustice in the present system . |
| 4 | After climbing the ancient fence which bordered the pub 's premises , he leaned back against the fence for another breather . |
| 5 | Then , it states that every citizen of the union erm residing in a member state shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the member state in which he resides under the same conditions as nationals of that state and that the right shall , not may , but shall be exercised er before the thirty first of December nineteen ninety four by the council acting unanimously on the proposal from the commission and after consulting the European parliament which arrangements may provide the derogations where warranted by problems specific to a member state . |
| 6 | This was assumed to mean that before the British Parliament was asked to ratify , there would need to be a clear plan for addressing the Danish veto which was likely to be acceptable to the Danish people . |
| 7 | There is nothing which conflicts with the integrity of the United Kingdom in securing to Scotsmen in that or some other way an effective means of shaping the special legislation which affects them and only them . |
| 8 | Without high social standards throughout the Community , the Single Market will encourage companies to continue trying to compete by cutting costs — moving to the areas with low wages , low environmental protection and low skills — instead of pursuing the only strategy which offers success in the global economy , that of high-skill , high-wage , high-quality production . |
| 9 | The decision was opposed by many , including some who were pro-choice ( in favour of women deciding for themselves ) , on the grounds that the court 's decision was apparently based more on a balancing of policy interests than on specifically legal argument , and it had the effect of stimulating the anti-abortion movement which in turn became a major part of the New Right . |
| 10 | But , in principle , there are ways of understanding the social world which dispense with individuals , at least as prime movers , and ways of explaining it which rely on them . |
| 11 | This has the effect of diverting our attention away from previous cases where the method has failed and hence of escaping the sceptical argument which takes its start from those cases . |
| 12 | And so behaviourist weight loss programmes offer both women and men the possibility of replacing the feminine body which excess weight represents , with a more masculine , in-control one , which will also provide women with some female-specific gains ( e.g. Rachlin 1980 ) . |
| 13 | As Laurence Martin has said : ‘ It is impossible to refute entirely the criticism that the various strategies of limitation may appear to make the world safe for nuclear warfare and thereby hasten its onset ’ ; but he concluded : ‘ The proper question may therefore be not , should we contemplate limited nuclear war , but , should we consider the ways of limiting the nuclear war which is henceforth always a possibility ’ ( Howard , 1979 , pp. 119 and 120 ) . |
| 14 | Certainly simulation by shifting to other viewpoints is a kind of analogizing the active kind which makes myself like instead of recognizing as alike . |
| 15 | In the first place , he believed that Marx had bequeathed a method of analysing the social process which was scientific , which went to the very roots of reality . |
| 16 | The notion of ‘ topic ’ is clearly an intuitively satisfactory way of describing the unifying principle which makes one stretch of discourse ‘ about ’ something and the next stretch ‘ about ’ something else , for it is appealed to very frequently in the discourse analysis literature . |
| 17 | Mr d'Ancona recalls : ‘ OSO started with the simple remit of cutting the umbilical cord which linked US oil companies with their established suppliers in the Gulf of Mexico , who were for the most part American . ’ |
| 18 | Equally , it could avail itself of the insights of ‘ systems analysis ’ , a mode of examining the penal system which we explain in Chapter 9 . |
| 19 | Though they can enjoy the advantages of the single market , they do run the risk of losing the inward investment which has favoured the UK so far . |
| 20 | Instead of giving the immediate agreement which he had expected , she said : ‘ Let's have some coffee . |
| 21 | It was just in the process of digesting the Islamic revolution which had set the last of the Shahs , Muhammad Reza , on his unhappy way to exile , illness and death , the last finally overtaking him in Egypt . |
| 22 | Denying Gina the opportunity of making the quick contradiction which sprang to her lips , she addressed herself to Rune in her excellent , slightly accented English . |
| 23 | Anyway , all I can remember is something about turning the other cheek which I do n't believe in . |
| 24 | The above three case studies bring out a number of points about resourcing the public sector which demonstrate that resourcing issues are not the sole province of the technical experts in the area : accountants and economists . |
| 25 | ‘ Can you blame me for holding the very opinion which you deliberately instigated ? |
| 26 | One bit of the letter I did n't like was the comment about strengthening the 1979 Act which , more properly should be abolished altogether . |
| 27 | When a discretionary life sentence is passed , for an offence other than murder because of the danger to the public from the convicted person , there is no undue difficulty in ascertaining the determinate sentence which would otherwise be appropriate according to the judges ' tariff . |
| 28 | As flashbulbs popped and he paid tribute to everyone involved in building the sleek yacht which had won the award his eyes roamed the room . |
| 29 | Both Stainrod and Willie Miller agreed that the blustery conditions did little to enhance the standard of play , but did play its part in forcing the occasional error which provided the series of goalmouth incidents so pleasing to the crowd . |
| 30 | Nathaniel Hawthorne spoke of the ‘ phantasmagorical antics ’ he had played in describing the socialist community which appears in The Blithedale Romance : the antics played in the commune conceived by Ahmed could also be called phantasmagorical . |