Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the molecular size of the polymer decreases there is an increasing probability that the molecules can diffuse into the smaller pores and channels in the gel which slows their time of passage through the column by providing a potentially longer path length before being eluted . |
| 2 | Others are merely temporarily hidden , such as whether there is fire behind a building which obstructs our line of sight ; we could come to know about this by going to see . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Liberal Democrats will neither support nor participate in a government which turns its back on reform . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | International competition requires that you present a passport which has your date of birth . |
| 8 | Beata Bishop in her book A Time to Heal , which describes her experience of cancer and how she ultimately cured it by using alternative healing methods , writes of her first experience of conventional surgery . |
| 9 | Lightweight silky curtains reappeared as pyjamas , nightgowns , underwear and even wedding dresses which answers your question about wedding dresses . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Finally when Edmund marries Fanny , semblance is the main aspect which leads their marriage to happiness . |
| 13 | He uses natural materials in the natural landscape and , by arranging them , draws attention to their significance , such as forming decaying leaves into a pattern which emphasizes their variation in colour . |
| 14 | As noted , Hobbes seems undecided whether ‘ physics ’ ( which includes his explanation of sense-perception ) is included , along with geometry and mechanics , as part of the basic explanatory framework which he calls ‘ indefinite ’ science . |
| 15 | They learn to feel that they are able to control the asthma , which reduces their feeling of helplessness and panic . |
| 16 | Smokers take more days off work which reduces our competitiveness with world counterparts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Competitors generally adopt an attacking or defensive attitude which governs their usage of technique . |
| 20 | Rom Harré , a philosopher and social psychologist , argues there are but two dimensions along which a man acts : the practical dimension which directs his maintenance of life ( this coincides with my use of first-order experience ) and an ‘ expressive ’ dimension , which he sees as the ‘ overriding pre-occupation of human life ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 21 | Here , for the first time , Mozart demonstrated to the full his superlative skill in making music a medium for the expression of human emotions — in such highlights as Ilia 's aria ‘ Padre , germani , addio ’ , which expresses her conflict between love for her enemy and duty to her native country ; Idomeneus ' aria ‘ Fuor del mar ’ , in which the king describes how , although he is physically safe , his mind is still storm-tossed by dark forebodings ; and the masterly quartet ‘ Andrò rammingo e solo ’ — one of the great operatic ensembles of all time — in which four characters all express different emotions . |
| 22 | A people which grasps its sense of nationality with pleasure and love can always celebrate its rebirth . |
| 23 | Similarly , old people are seen in the same light , which explains their lack of employment or active leisure pursuits . |
| 24 | Since 1981 she has been feature-writing for the bi-monthly alumni magazine of the University of Massachusetts , which gives her scope for science reporting and reporting on contemporary issues . |
| 25 | ( Jacques had not been living at home at least from 1707 , the year his Principes was published , which gives his address as rue Christine . ) |
| 26 | It is a barometer which determines your state of wellbeing , stress or illness . |
| 27 | It is hard to find Spaniards who will say a word against the venture which symbolises their escape from Francoism and their re-entry into world affairs . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If they are fortunate enough to become involved in an initiative which supports their progress into employment , this can lead them into another level of experience . |
| 30 | It will be the Mass which begins our day of prayer and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament . |