Example sentences of "which [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be true , and many advertisers of these categories of goods — which tend to account for the majority of advertisements appearing on TV and in major national newspapers and magazines — behave as if they believe it . |
| 2 | Unlike conventional football books , which tend to skim across the surface of disappointment in chapters entitled ‘ The Lean Years ’ , Hampden Babylon finds a certain self-mocking delight in disappointment . |
| 3 | Two of them do reach results which appear to conflict with the wording , and for which no good reason can be found other than the one they give themselves : that this was the testator 's intention . |
| 4 | The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment . |
| 5 | If we are outside , we shall not enjoy the advantages of a single currency or have the investment in this country of those companies — our own and overseas firms — which want to invest in the core of Europe and enjoy full access to all that goes on in Europe . |
| 6 | The Thai government has ordered the border to be closed but Thai logging companies , which stand to lose by the ban , are arguing for a delay in its implementation and have intensified logging in recent weeks . |
| 7 | Last year the event raised more than £6,000 and this year other local charities which stand to benefit from the run are the Sefton Resource Centre for the Physically and Mentally Handicapped and Great Crosby RC Primary School . |
| 8 | The aim is to invest in Chinese stocks and shares which stand to benefit from the upsurge in economic growth which China is experiencing . |
| 9 | Only a few pages later Freud withdraws his connection between the ego instincts and the death aims of those instincts which seem to push towards the death of the organism . |
| 10 | The arch consists of two sets of colossal forearms , each weighing 20 tons and higher than the Arc de Triomphe , which seem to burst from the ground at opposite ends of a 90-metre public space . |
| 11 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 12 | Rebuilding work is due to get under way in the next few weeks when councillors decide which bid to accept for the contract . |
| 13 | There is also a level-of-analysis problem for theories which try to work from the inside . |
| 14 | Our charge against the metaphysician is not that he attempts to employ the understanding in a field where it can not possibly venture , but that he produces sentences which fail to conform to the conditions under which alone a sentence can be literally significant . |
| 15 | ‘ And so they do n't know which button to push in the lift , ’ laughed the Youngest Son . |
| 16 | Mr Collins told The Independent : ‘ These are long standing , difficult , complex , sensitive issues relating to security , which have to do with the preservation of life or acts which result in the deaths of innocent people . |
| 17 | The answer can be divided into three parts , the first two of which have to do with the relationship between evolution and embryonic development . |
| 18 | I should like to consider momentarily the application of such an approach to the various ( conflicting ) new testament verses which have to do with the status of women . |
| 19 | However , I do want to query why the LTA produces a high gloss tennis magazine at a cost that is totally uncommercial and it does so in direct competition to other magazines which have to operate within the framework of normal commercial practice . |
| 20 | Measure up any items which have to stay in the kitchen , and cut out shapes from graph paper to represent them . |
| 21 | He wondered which row to select from the library of disputes available to him . |