Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Beatrice Webb publicly renounced her stand against the suffrage in 1906 , she explained in a letter to Millicent Garrett Fawcett that : ‘ The raising of children , the advancement of learning and the promotion of the spiritual — which I regard as the particular obligations of women — are , it is clear , more and more becoming the main preoccupations of the community as a whole ’ . |
| 2 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |
| 3 | Instead , I bought a number of computer magazines which I read into the small hours each night . |
| 4 | But by the summer I am writing a homosexual love-story which I preface with the following remark : |
| 5 | Follow the signposts through the farm and onto the drive which you follow to the main road . |
| 6 | It is entirely tied up with the intensity of interest or desire which you apply to the various things you do . |
| 7 | PERHAPS the most extraordinary thing about parenting is the speed with which you bond with the nondescript bundle presented to you in the delivery room . |
| 8 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 9 | This latter step emphasizes the importance which you attach to the whole process . |
| 10 | But such a dimension does help to explain why philosophy can be seen both as a mode of thinking in any discipline , and also a discipline in its own right ; for it is at least arguable that the ‘ questions about questions ’ in every field eventually converge on certain basic questions and concepts which we recognize as the traditional domain and concern of the philosopher . |
| 11 | … to outline a system of geomorphology grounded in basic principles of mechanics and fluid dynamics , that will enable geomorphic processes to be treated as manifestations of various types of shear stresses , both gravitational and molecular , acting upon any type of earth material to produce the varieties of strain , or failure , which we recognize as the manifold processes of weathering , erosion , transportation and deposition . |
| 12 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 13 | Without wishing to champion the Soviet system and the way in which it ‘ manufactures ’ its sportsmen , I believe the general philosophy underlying the integration of sports with other components of education is much more realistic than the irritating duality with which we labour in the Western world where educators are prone to see justification for particular studies in terms of their practical value . |
| 14 | If we fail to see any need to offer sound moral justifications for treating sentient creatures as mere ‘ commodities ’ , ‘ preparations ’ , ‘ models ’ , or research ‘ tools ’ , then we surely deny that very rationality which we cite as the single quality which elevates humans so far above the other animals . |
| 15 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
| 16 | These fears may be greater , for example , than those which we attach to the actual penalties imposed by the law — hence the use , and fear , of publicity in relation to criminal offences . |
| 17 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 18 | The remains of these edifices in Italy , France , Germany , Spain , Yugoslavia , Greece , Rumania and Asia Minor give us a clear idea of their way of life as well as their modes of building and it is a much more complete picture than that which we have from the Greek civilisation because of its very complexity and variety . |
| 19 | We therefore have to solve for unc unc Knowing Mo , we now use ( 11 ) to evaluate unc whence in turn we find unc Since unc is non-singular , we may reduce the eigenproblem based on W1 to unc which we solve for the unknown |
| 20 | Innovation , which we define as the successful exploitation of new ideas , is a major contributor to competitive success and thus to wealth creation . |
| 21 | This argument may be exemplified by considering one of the mechanisms through which we deal with the everyday world . |
| 22 | Finally , the war accounts for the strategic orientation which we discuss in the following chapter . |
| 23 | Let us chart the way by which we arrive at the Fundamental Principle . |
| 24 | When these enterprises do manage to take hold the next key question is the extent to which they hire from the local community and from disadvantaged groups ( e.g. the long-term unemployed ) . |
| 25 | The two men , also squatting , are thrown flesh and bones which they pound in the bowl-like depressions . |
| 26 | Departments and the fields which they contribute to the Modular Course are not free agents , either in terms of conformity to Course regulations or in being able to project student numbers in isolation . |
| 27 | Families of different kinds , for example those in which the mother does or does not work outside the home , are compared in terms of the ways in which they respond to the unpredictable , but inevitable , occurrence of these episodes of childhood illness . |
| 28 | They accomplish this task by listening to papers delivered on them and by attending ‘ pray-ins ’ in which they pray to the Implied Reader . |
| 29 | When the females have laid their eggs , which they deposit on the moist ground , the males sit in groups around them on guard . |
| 30 | In the study of literature , quantitative methods can never achieve the primacy which they enjoy in the experimental sciences and in many branches of social studies . |