Example sentences of "which [vb -s] its [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) will , in the House this afternoon , condemn the antediluvian attitudes of the TGWU , which sponsors him , and which turns its back on help for the unemployed made available by the Government . |
| 2 | Others have adopted a more holistic approach but in the form of an ecological reductionism which turns its back on science and technology , stressing traditional craft means of production and prescientific knowledges , such as astrology and alchemy ( which are imbued with a deeply humanistic Utopianism — noticeably absent from contemporary science and technology ) . |
| 3 | Liberal Democrats will neither support nor participate in a government which turns its back on reform . |
| 4 | The doctrine of the Trinity ‘ is not an immediate utterance concerning the Christian self-consciousness , but only a combination of several such utterances ’ ; that is , it serves to combine and hold together the different affirmations of the Christian consciousness concerning God the Father , Jesus , and the Holy Spirit , but it is essentially a theological construction which has its place in theology but should not be taken as expressing the truth about God . |
| 5 | The fact that mammals have , by and large , relatively bigger brains and higher intelligence than most reptiles already points towards the evolutionary trend which reaches its culmination in man and which substitutes elaborated patterns of learned and intelligent behaviour for simple instinctual response with automatic , stereotyped actions . |
| 6 | The economic internationalization of the media — a process which reaches its apotheosis with satellite broadcasting — has another side to it , and that is the use of media output , notably television output , e.g. Dallas , internationally . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the sheer quantity of nitrate fertilizer that is applied to much farmland — and it has increased five times since the 1930s — ; creates problems from the surface run-off of rainwater which finds its way into drainage channels and ditches and eventually into streams and rivers . |
| 8 | The relevance of this can be seen by considering the present religious force in Western culture , namely a humanism which finds its embodiment in liberalism . |
| 9 | A people which grasps its sense of nationality with pleasure and love can always celebrate its rebirth . |
| 10 | This is the issue which occupies Anne Phillips , Sylvia Walby and Michèle Barrett in particular , with a certain consensus that , after all , we must hold out for a version of modernism ( against post-modernism ) , and what Phillips calls a ‘ middle route ’ which retains its aspiration to universalism . |
| 11 | The progenitor cell now receives a signal from the adjacent optic nerve which switches its pathway of differentiation from an oligodendrocyte to that of an astrocyte . |