Example sentences of "which [vb base] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet and Far East European Studies , which suffer from an acute shortage of reliable information , lie at the more impenetrable end of the social sciences . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's seeing the university as a factory where people are given identifiable , quantifiable market skills which plug into an entrepreneurial vision of society . |
| 3 | This model incorporates all different categories of information which interact in an ongoing manner to constrain the processing of a sentence . |
| 4 | This years fund managers are looking for gains in order to diversify into those cyclical sectors which benefit from an economic recovery . |
| 5 | Assumptions and expectations which lie behind an inter-agency approach require to be made more explicit in order that agencies , and individuals within agencies , are absolutely clear about where they stand , not only in relation to the paramount concern of protecting the child , but also in relation to each other . |
| 6 | The electron beam is generated by applying a potential up to 30 kV between a small tungsten steel cathode disc and an annular anode which lie within an evacuated glass tube . |
| 7 | It is not difficult to think of female names which begin with an unstressed syllable ( Patricia , Elizabeth , Rebecca ) , but male names are very rare ( Jerome , Demetrius ) . |
| 8 | The incorporative drive refers to national level forces which emanate from an urban centre and gradually involve more peripheral areas in a national way of life . |
| 9 | to keep ‘ important ’ issues off the agenda£ fails to take into account the diversity of media — magazines , journals , books , radio — which allow for an enormous amount of information to find its way into the public domain . |
| 10 | This difficulty is shared by many such theories , of whatever provenance , which rely on an idealised notion of culture to carry the burden of explanation . |
| 11 | As we saw , there are broadly two schools of Marxist thought — those which rely on an instrumental view of the state-economy relationship and those of a structuralist type , which allow for a degree of freedom for the state and discuss power in terms of hegemony and control . |
| 12 | Cancer specialists from the United Kingdom , continental Europe and the United States will gather in London to hear the results of early studies which point to an important role for fish and plant oils in helping to combat human disease . |
| 13 | From a personal point of view , the best interviews are the ones which become conversations , discussions which proceed on an equal basis , that are informal but still retain some kind of shape . |
| 14 | Are there costs to society which result from an annual rise in the price level of , say , 10 per cent ? |
| 15 | Methane , the hydrocarbon commonly known as marsh or swamp gas , is produced by bacteria which live in an oxygen-free environment such as at the bottom of swamps and rice paddies and in the guts of ruminant or cud-chewing animals such as cattle , sheep and camels where the bacteria help to break down food into a digestible form ( enteric fermentation ) . |
| 16 | It belongs to a group of ‘ Venus ’ figurines most of which date from an early phase of the Upper Palaeolithic found over a territory extending from the Pyrenees and North Italy to Central Europe and South Russia . |
| 17 | The area of medical jurisprudence is replete with such absurdities , which date from an earlier age when superstition was a substitute for knowledge . |
| 18 | The task at this stage will be to ascertain the feelings and problems which exist on an individual level , and to discuss them . |
| 19 | The method used to translate the financial statements should reflect the financial and other operational relationships which exist between an investing company and its foreign enterprises ( refer to SSAP 20 ) . |
| 20 | Sections which fall below an acceptable standard in terms of quantity , quality of content , or physical condition should receive priority . |
| 21 | Inadequate professional services are services which fall below an acceptable standard , but are short of negligent work . |
| 22 | The interior is more luxurious with plenty of padding , more sound insulation , and more goodies come as standard such as a constant speed propeller and streamlined wheel fairings which lead to an increased cruising speed of some 120–125 knots . |
| 23 | Scotland answered with a show of power in the scrum which lead to an 11th minute try by captain Andy Nicol . |
| 24 | However , the committee was concerned about the effects on business of the high rates of interest which occur in an inflationary economy . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |