Example sentences of "which [verb] [adj] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He maintains that capitalist enterprises and the modern nation state require a ‘ rational ’ bureaucratic administration which involves large numbers of administrators and clerical staff . |
| 2 | Pollarding , which involves repeated cutting of branches at head height , and was originally practised mainly for firewood , is to be reintroduced , along with experimental grazing of ponies , pigs and cattle . |
| 3 | However the facts are that the courts have not for the last 300 years recognised , nor have they acted upon , a logic which renders all questions of law jurisdictional . |
| 4 | The variation in day length decreases with distance from the poles and vanishes at the Equator , which receives 12 hours of light each day throughout the year . |
| 5 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 6 | Based on a study of fifteen abandoned sites in the Paragominas region south of Belém , each of which experienced varying degrees of land-use intensity , Buschbacher et al. have shown that only those sites where low- and medium-intensity use were practised are likely to return to a forest cover . |
| 7 | However , the Normal College is geographically adjacent to the University College of North Wales , Bangor , which offers similar courses of teacher training and , in some respects , competes with it for students . |
| 8 | Brough Park , which last night hosted the final of the 2,000 Guineas , is now preparing for next month 's Northumberland Puppy Cup , which offers prize money of £2,000 for the winner . |
| 9 | Like centralised curriculum development , ‘ courses have come to be increasingly criticised for their failure to deal with needs in a way which offers ready transfer of practice to the individual teacher 's classroom or beyond that to the whole school ’ . |
| 10 | An entrepreneur who wishes to have full control over the management of an enterprise may well opt for sole trading as the only form which offers sufficient freedom of action . |
| 11 | This file , or one identical to it , had emerged the victor of a curious contest at the Exhibition between Turtons ' English Files and a French company which manufactured another brand of file . |
| 12 | A further point is that although Piaget implies that explanations which combine two types of content are always inappropriate , this is not in fact the case . |
| 13 | He delighted the Faculty , which represents all modes of transport when he said : ‘ We do not believe the road system comes before everything ’ . |
| 14 | Bit mapped graphics : Certainly the most common , these derive their name from the fact that they are made up from individual dots or pixels , each of which represents one bit of computer memory . |
| 15 | Turkey is a signatory to the Berne Convention , which prohibits indiscriminate killing of cetaceans . |
| 16 | Will it be the Minister , the Secretary of State , the employers , the trade unions or some quango in which failed Tory Members of Parliament serve on inflated salaries ? |
| 17 | Form 86 or a quite informal letter is then sufficient — such as : We hereby consent to the property known as [ shown edged red on the accompanying plan ] being part of the land comprised in the above title being transferred free from the [ Intended ] Notice of Deposit registered on the But some banks ( which favour this type of security in appropriate cases ) have their own favoured form of withdrawal ; acting for a seller you 'll satisfy yourself on this point and obtain the necessary withdrawal in time to hand over on completion . |
| 18 | In species such as swans and geese , which lay large clutches of eggs soon after arrival , the reserve on landing may indeed determine breeding success for the year . |
| 19 | Only later was a full investigation made of the events in Dallas by a commission under Chief Justice Earl Warren , which produced 26 volumes of evidence . |
| 20 | Whatever the particular context of such changes , these studies demonstrate that a set of transformations in material culture which may be found to permeate almost every trivial domain , from chimneys to rubbish disposal , can be understood as a largely unconscious and unintentional response by a variety of social groups , which produced new forms of demand and new means of incorporating the emergence of mass produced items . |
| 21 | A survey conducted by Chittagong University 's Economics Department showed that the Satkhira region , which produced 40,000 tonnes of rice in 1976 , yielded only 360 tonnes ten years later . |
| 22 | Henry VII himself supplemented the eyre with judicial proceedings of other kinds , such as the judicial inquiry in 1494 into offences in Pickering Forest , which revealed extensive destruction of vert and venison . |
| 23 | A number of factors have been identified which distinguish this sort of country : |
| 24 | Mainland is famous for the quality of its agricultural land which produces outstanding crops of oats and barley , superb sheep and cattle , and top-quality seed potatoes . |
| 25 | A comparable phenomenon has been described in a transgenic mouse model which produces long segments of HBsAg including pre S 1 proteins and which eventually develops distorted ground glass hepatocytes very similar to thsoe in the present liver transplant recipients . |
| 26 | A team of four men , a blender , a pressman , and two pugmen , operate the department which produces 50 tons of body and 12,000 gallons of slip a week . |
| 27 | Seen from a purely theoretical standpoint , the leap of faith which produces this kind of doubt completely bypasses the question of truth . |
| 28 | In 1965 , Lyndon Johnson , who , according to Atkin , wanted to be remembered as the ‘ Education President ’ , devoted much of his energies to the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act , which appropriated large sums of money for a compensatory education programme . |
| 29 | Specific mention is made of , among others , the Ignalina nuclear power station , which is badly constructed and lacks proper safety procedures ; the Akmene cement works , which causes respiratory diseases and dermatitis among local people ; the Jonava fertilizer plant , the site of a major accident in 1989 involving the emission of 7,000 tons of ammonia ; and the Mazeikiai oil refinery , which emits 62,000 tons of pollutants , including phenol and acetone , directly into the air every year . |
| 30 | He retired as hydrographer in 1874 , and became managing director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company , which laid 76,000 miles of submarine cables under his guidance . |