Example sentences of "which an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began to back out of the room , trying to focus on a picture hanging behind the old man on the wall above the mantelpiece , a weird dark picture in which an angel of vengeance flew across a purple sky lit by flashes of lightning , sword in hand , and below a man with blood streaming from his neck prayed for mercy . |
| 2 | The friar examined the crenellations from which an archer would shoot if the wall was under attack . |
| 3 | A former Chief National Insurance Commissioner has described the procedure on appeal as a good example of a procedure which is informal and yet under which an appellant 's case is considered fully and fairly . |
| 4 | Sidney 's proposal that a poet 's creation of pleasing fictions is a means of transcending nature and reaching toward an imitation of the divine is perceived as a means by which an experience of the world lost by original sin may be recaptured . |
| 5 | In the last of these veins , Harman acknowledges , ‘ The problem , on the surface at least , is the persistence , the seriousness , with which an intelligence of this order employs devices that seem to be at best witty and at worst trivial . ’ |
| 6 | In other words , the requirement of leave may encourage the very sort of applications it is designed to weed out , especially given the very short time limit within which an AJR has to be commenced : it is safer to seek leave even if the applicant expects to settle the claim without further litigation . |
| 7 | The second noteworthy feature of AJR procedure is that Ord. 53 r.4 imposes a very short time-limit in which an AJR must be made : subject to a discretion to extend the period , the application must be made promptly and at any event within three months from the date when the grounds for the application arose . |
| 8 | A second difficulty posed by the collateral attack exception is that Ord. 53 , r.7 provides that a claim for damages may be brought under Ord. 53 if the claim arises from any matter to which an AJR relates . |
| 9 | Furthermore ‘ the relative haste with which an animal when hungry approaches food offered to the visual field , suggests that conation attaches to the visual reaction by association through memory with affective tone ’ . |
| 10 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 11 | Associative learning is the process by which an animal comes to replace an innately recognised cue — the sign stimulus — with another cue or set of cues . |
| 12 | This phenomenon , in which an animal responds to a repeated stimulus by eventually disregarding it , is familiar to everyone . |
| 13 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 14 | If the defence is to work , the predator must learn not to eat poisonous animals , because natural selection will not favour a trait , by which an animal , after it is dead , makes its attacker sick . |
| 15 | These are the only tangibles upon which an assessment of such a profession can be made . |
| 16 | While the government does not foresee the need for pre-censorship of publications , films and video cassettes , it is the intention of the government to enact appropriate legislation to provide the framework within which an assessment could be made of the suitability of any publication , film or video cassette for public and private consumption with regard to obscenity and offending of religious convictions . |
| 17 | While the government does not foresee the need for pre-censorship of publications , films and video cassettes , it is the intention of the government to enact appropriate legislation to provide the framework within which an assessment could be made of the suitability of any publication , film or video cassette for public and private consumption with regard to obscenity and offending of religious convictions . |
| 18 | The developments briefly described in this chapter demonstrate that there are a number of ways in which an assessment scheme consistent with the Cockcroft Committee 's recommendations could be implemented . |
| 19 | If A and B have made a contract under which an obligation remains to be performed by A and A now makes this obligation the basis of a new agreement with C , there are two possibilities . |
| 20 | 2 Circumstances importing an obligation of confidence The courts have found it difficult to determine a generally applicable test of the circumstances in which an obligation of confidence will arise . |
| 21 | See for example Distillers Co ( Biochemicals ) Ltd v Times Newspapers [ 1975 ] QB 613 and Riddick v Thames Board Mills Ltd [ 1977 ] QB 881. 3 Duration of the duty It is difficult to lay down any general rule for determining the period for which an obligation of confidence will last . |
| 22 | Therefore Neill LJ must have been contemplating protection by an express restrictive covenant of confidential information in respect of which an obligation against use or disclosure after the determination of the employment could not be implied . |
| 23 | If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant . |
| 24 | Upon proof of the mortgage the court will make an order for foreclosure nisi , under which an officer of the court is directed to find what is due for principal , interest , and costs , and the mortgagor is ordered to pay within six months from the time when the amount is certified . |
| 25 | NATO countries say that they do not want a ‘ dual key ’ arrangement , in which an officer from the US and the host country have to turn their keys simultaneously before a weapon can be launched . |
| 26 | The notes were taken early on in the research when I was chiefly concerned with documenting pollution control work , thus they should suggest something of the nature of the job — routine tasks as well as special problems — which an officer can encounter on a summer 's day . |
| 27 | The folklore provides a version of past history on any case or class of case to which an officer confronted with a problem may turn for a solution , whether it be one of choosing the ‘ proper ’ negotiating stance , making the ‘ right ’ decision , or placing the ‘ correct ’ interpretation upon acts , events or characters . |
| 28 | Since the formal procedures of the law are used so rarely , the number of legal samples or prosecutions in which an officer may be involved are never taken as a sign of competence . |
| 29 | Sometimes the landowning class might be the only social group possessing the qualities of leadership and the minimum of education without which an officer was useless . |
| 30 | Secondly , an individual needs to undergo toilet-training not merely because of the demands of common decency and modern personal hygiene , but , much more importantly , because we live in a culture in which an ability to control sadistic drives is of the first importance , both for the quality of our civilization and for the acquisition and protection of our cultural wealth in general . |