Example sentences of "which [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In democratic states , and even in those which see themselves as having a so-called information society ( even we define it as a society which offers increased access to information ) , some forms of censorship will be as much a part of the fabric of society as in a despotic state .
2 There is another bar with TV lounge indoors and an a la carte restaurant which offers great value to Club guests .
3 Much research which contributes useful information to sociology is carried out by non-sociologists , and perhaps the best example of this is the decennial census of population without which British sociology would be hard pressed for much data about our society .
4 Moreover , expeditions tend to congregate in a few favoured areas which provide rapid access to peaks as well as adequate water supplies and shelter from natural hazards like avalanches .
5 Of the twenty-eight varieties of rootstock permitted in the cultivation of Champagne 's vineyards , the most significant ones are : the 41 B Millardet et Grasset , which has a fair resistance to phylloxera and an excellent active lime resistance ( up to 40% ) ; the Selection Oppenheim No. 4 or So 4 , which has very good phylloxera resistance and reasonable active lime resistance ( up to 18% ) ; and the 3309 Couderc , which has excellent resistance to phylloxera and fair resistance to active lime ( up to 11% ) .
6 There was first a minor raid on Exeter on a Thursday night , followed the next night by a much larger raid , which caused great damage to parts of the town .
7 There are also characteristics which show specific disadvantage to women .
8 Premium offers are marketing techniques which give extra value to goods or services in the short term as part of a promotional package .
9 There is a large continuous open reading frame which predicts a 723 amino acid protein of molecular mass 81,524 daltons , and which shows extensive homology to human SSRP1 and the mouse T160 protein .
10 A civilization which paid particular attention to time but was destined , however , to remain totally isolated from both Europe and Asia until long after its decline — it reached its peak between about AD 600 and 900 — was that of the Maya of Mesoamerica .
11 Integration in its widest sense is about how to fit special education into mainstream education rather than how to devise a single system of education which creates equal access to education for all — a common policy for education ( Warnock , 1988 ) .
12 The latest controversy centred on an amendment to its Islamic Law Administration Act passed by the Selangor State Assembly on July 19 , 1989 , which permitted formal conversion to Islam of minors without parental consent , on the grounds that Islamic law deemed a person an adult from the onset of puberty .
13 In the case of passenger transport undertakings such as railways and airlines which allow free travel to employees the test would provide mind-boggling difficulties of calculation and when the undertaking was running at a loss would result in a charge to tax that exceeded the fare charged to the general public ; this would also be the case where school fees were heavily subsidised by endowments .
14 Within education , enabling environments are those which allow full access to learning and free expression of knowledge , skills and understanding .
15 Instead of the anaerobic gravel layer of old style aquaria , this now becomes a biologically active aerobic medium supporting bacteria which decompose organic matter to carbon dioxide and water and oxidize ammonia to nitrate .
16 The restrictions which bound individual Japanese to conformity were less those laid down by law than the more pervasive ones of social ethic and social convention which discouraged a ‘ selfish ’ individualist approach .
17 Although in every case the judge must balance the commercial or property rights of the plaintiff in controlling the information against the value of the defendant 's right of free speech , for many judges brought up in a world which accords pre-eminent value to rights of property , this may seem like balancing hard cash against hot air .
18 We should have a law which prevents deliberate cruelty to animals even if those animals are wild .
19 a crazy shipping system which sends Ghanaian bauxite to Scotland , Guinean alumina to the US , Jamaican alumina to Ghana and Ghanaian aluminium all round the world .
20 Superficially , this is a ‘ blocking high ’ of the kind which brought prolonged drought to England and parts of continental Europe in 1976 .
21 So , we had curious clothes , an odd mix of formal chorus movement , and roistering rabble , some splendid narration which brought welcome stability to proceedings , and a great deal of very pleasant singing .
22 IT WAS difficult for small independents to offer services like their Holiday Care system , which offered immediate help to holidaymakers , whatever the problem , like lost baggage or loans to cope with legal problems over cars in Spain , for which customers were given access to a phone numnber until 15 days after coming home .
23 LAST year Britain tabled a directive at the Maastricht Treaty negotiations which offered much-needed protection to zoo and farm animals in the EC .
24 The 17 were reported to have been arrested after the Committee for the Defence of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria had issued leaflets in December 1991 criticizing the Dec. 2 referendum which gave overwhelming approval to Assad 's nomination for a fourth term as President [ see p. 38695 ] .
25 She thus had little use for cinema which gave great weight to symbolism , and unfavourably contrasted symbolist poetry to the work of poets like Ezra Pound whose world operated , not through meaning , but through the ‘ direct impact of words ’ .
26 Among the benefits to be abolished was the Death Grant , to be replaced by a system which gave full help to families who needed it and none to those who did not .
27 A biography is not a monograph , and , indeed , there are biographies of painters which do little justice to art .
28 On the vital Finance Committee , they have only 11 seats out of 20 , which gives substantial leverage to dissidents .
29 We have arranged credit facilities with another travel agent Gray Dawes , as well as Key Travel , which enables Christian Aid to book tickets without having to pay in advance .
30 In Croatia we are supporting an agency which provides direct assistance to refugee families and to young people .
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