Example sentences of "[prep] which the [noun sg] [verb] its " in BNC.

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1 It does not touch it but vibrates its wings : in response the ant opens its jaws , between which the mosquito pushes its proboscis and steals the honey dew .
2 They are the means by which the public acquires information about the world and , more importantly , through which the public derives its knowledge and perceptions of current political and social problems and of the means to their resolution .
3 They further argued that ‘ State ’ means the numerical collection of inhabitants in the geographical area and not the government or organs of government through which the state expresses its intentions .
4 Of which the speed contains its own repose
5 But the paraphernalia of better light bulbs , lean-burn engines and cavity-wall insulation with which the North supports its arguments are likely to be dismissed as irrelevant in parts of the world which for the most part have no need for cavity walls .
6 Only that part of the judgment which is based upon the facts as found and upon which the court bases its decision forms part of the ratio .
7 That has to speak highly for the way in which the software does its internal calculations and comes up with the answers .
8 The first stage is the planning stage , in which the school develops its curriculum plan within which the project grant is to be used .
9 The organization of the state is not all social organization ; the ends for which the state stands are not all the ends which humanity seeks ; and quite obviously , the ways in which the state pursues its objects are only some of the ways in which within society men strive for the objects of their desire .
10 A centralized planning system in which the centre communicates its requirements directly to the producing units can operate effectively only in brief moments of national emergency ( with its associated national consensus on priorities ) .
11 But centenary of the French Championship will always be remembered as the Blanco final ; the year in which the Championship lost its head and rugby one of its prime entertainers .
12 Favourite fairy tales are the need for spiritual growth , love at first sight , the pull of destiny or meetings in past lives , and we do not realize the primitive level of being in which the bond has its source .
13 Thus the company paid compensation during the opencast mining period in which the company extracted its highest profits from the mine : the cost made little dent in the company 's profits .
14 We are unhappy about the way in which the Respondent presented its case in a number of respects . ’
15 I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at .
16 The economic world in which the family has its being is not just the market , for it is also affected by state allocation of the benefits and burdens of citizenship according to its own criteria .
17 I plan a scene here in which the car makes its way through the vast landscape , the wounded Masai lying in the back .
18 Since under national legal systems it is usually stipulated that the place in which the association is established is to be the place of performance of obligations arising out of the act of becoming a member , the application of article 5(1) of the Convention also has practical advantages : the court for the place in which the association has its seat is in fact usually the best fitted to understand the documents of constitution , rules and decisions of the association , and also the circumstances out of which the dispute arose .
19 They attempt to point out ways in which the world bears its self-insufficiency in its fundamental constitution , as being what it is , as existing .
20 This is very much an overview document and describes the way in which the group conducts its business .
21 ’ But he never spoke of the pitiful way in which the soul bowed its head humbly and submissively before the Lad .
22 The simulation begins by the selection of the coordinates of the cell in which the stream has its source , and proceeds by random selection of the direction of flow .
23 I fancy , however , in future years , and even if the proposed line should now be hung up as long as the proposed act lasts , the neighbourhood may regret that they let the matter be arranged without any criticism from the locality from which the Act takes its name , for which there is now just time .
24 Close by , in the churchyard , is the famous Rudston monolith or rood-stone from which the village takes its name .
25 The Iceni may have harried the northern boundary of the Trinovantes , with freedom to raid and loot , and the Regini provided the Roman fleet with an important haven in Bosham , from which the army launched its attack along the coast to the west .
26 Louis Vauxcelles already spoke of ‘ cubes ’ in his review of the exhibition which Braque gave at Kahnweiler 's gallery in November 1908 , and the same critic referred to the paintings which Braque exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of the following year as ‘ bizarreries cubiques ’ , from which the style derived its name .
27 Francie Brady is The Butcher Boy of Patrick McCabe 's remarkable second novel ( Picador £14.99 ) , a child whose enquiring , ironical cast of mind and dire , small town Irish background ( his father has done his mother wrong , and she in turn is obsessed with the gloomy ditty from which the novel takes its title ) make him a fancied candidate for an early place in the reform school or the graveyard .
28 This has a clear relationship with Pius XI 's teaching , eight years earlier on the same subject : ‘ the very fountainhead from which the State draws its life , namely , wedlock and the family ’ ( 1929 : 14 ) , and with the dispositions of the then current Code of Canon Law which had come into effect in 1917 : ‘ The marriage of baptized persons is governed not only by divine law but also by church law .
29 Then on the 16th May , 1775 a Corporation committee and a team of labourers , having served notice on Mr. Guinness , arrived at the brewery and set out to cut off and fill in the water course from which the brewery drew its supplies .
30 PABA , glutamic acid , and a source of pteridine , are the building blocks from which the microbe constructs its own folic acid .
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