Example sentences of "[prep] which [adj] [noun] [verb] its " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But with the defeat of chartism and a period of stabilisation during which skilled labour consolidated its privileged economic position , the ideology of skilled workers unified increasingly around a discourse of possessive individualism , self help and respectability inscribed within extant relations of production . |
| 2 | Importantly , Sahlins does not privilege one perspective over the other : the British perspective is not treated as better or more informed because to treat it as such would be to accept unquestioningly the categories out of which this perspective constructed its realities . |
| 3 | Since the launch of our newsletter , ‘ The Botanics ’ , and the proposed issuing of a newsletter by the Friends of the RBGE , it is probably time to take stock of the total amount of news material which we are now producing , the staff effort involved , the uses to which the information is being put , and the efficiency with which each vehicle reaches its target readership . |
| 4 | And a new generation of grey suits exerted greater control than ever before , as if the Apple saga had been read as a fable in which Youthful Naivety got its comeuppance from Business Sagacity . |
| 5 | The use of chronology in historical writing , or in literary history , gives the illusion that the whole operates by a uniform , continuous progression , a linear series in which each event takes its place . |
| 6 | The inclusion , style and completeness of warranties is , of course , the outcome of a negotiation process in which each party has its own goals . |
| 7 | One particularly noticeable development was the way in which each group defended its position in response to the queries and suggestions of other groups . |
| 8 | Anthropological knowledge can seem , and often is , dangerous and subversive — not because we are good at digging up dirt ( we are ) , nor simply because we document what ‘ actually happens ’ rather than what is supposed to happen , but because our ways of defining situations and problems often raise questions in our minds about the fundamental assumptions on which any institution bases its own definitions , and indeed the assumptions on which it rests as an institution . |
| 9 | to show his students the ways by which great art creates its effects , leading them to a finer appreciation and fuller response , and to help them appreciate more fully the authors ' insights , so often deeper than our own [ sic ] , contribute towards our understanding of ourselves , our community , and life itself . |
| 10 | As Dicey says , ‘ the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation ’ . |