Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most obvious ways of telling a story which has to arise from the fact of a mysterious murder is to have your reader watch your detective conducting interviews with each of the suspects in turn . |
| 2 | This aspect has a bearing on two further components , social cohesion , which has to do with the sense of community and national identity , and what Heater has called civic virtue . |
| 3 | The impression given is of some sticky , viscous , unpleasant material which has to do with the satisfaction of obscure and uncontrollable personal needs . |
| 4 | The fully battened mainsail is loose-footed and stands a bold roach which has to brush past the backstay during a tack . |
| 5 | Opponents in Parliament , which has to vote on the measure , vowed to fight it tooth and nail . |
| 6 | Their research is published by Approach ( Association to Protect All Children ) , which wants to extend to the home the ban in schools on physical punishment . |
| 7 | It was suggested in the last chapter that analysis which tends to deal with the nature of modernity itself is always in danger of leading to assumptions concerning the superiority of certain ‘ advanced ’ peoples over others , which are in effect a version of primitivism . |
| 8 | Immediately after discharge from hospital most patients have a recurrence of the anxiety which is a prominent feature of the early days after the attack and which tends to lessen towards the end of the hospital stay . |
| 9 | Language in its significant sense is that vocal gesture which tends to arouse in the individual the attitude which it arouses in others , and it is this perfecting of the self by the gesture which mediates the social activities that gives rise to the process of taking the role of the other . |
| 10 | You should take special care if you are fair-haired or have a skin which tends to burn in the sun . |
| 11 | This is not only extremely difficult to do , she says , but unnecessary , as fat which is concentrated around these areas is less of a health risk than fat which tends to concentrate around the middle . |
| 12 | We seem to have lost the distinction between the second and third , which seems to depend on the existence of an identifiable artefact in the latter case . |
| 13 | The assumption which seems to prevail in the literature on conduct disorder is that certain disordered personality characteristics are formed which tend to continue , although the data on continuities in adverse social conditions which would confirm this assumption is by and large absent . |
| 14 | Certainly previous experience shapes present and future conduct but the good teacher or the good manager will not be contented simply with repeating what he or she has already been through without questioning the constraints of the organization which seems to stand in the way . |
| 15 | Then carefully go through your list , item by item , noting any idea which seems to leap off the page , makes you tingle or glow , or releases energy somewhere in your body . |
| 16 | It is certainly a tough lesson , but one which seems to work as the scoring averages are improving season by season on the Tour . |
| 17 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 18 | Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove . |
| 19 | Indeed , this predisposition has been reinforced in the Japanese case by the unusual degree of social uniformity which appears to stem from the homogeneity of the people and their customs . |
| 20 | A. vole premaxilla showing breakage of incisors ( ×15 ) ; B. sutural separation between premaxilla and maxilla ( ×15 ) ; C. occlusal cracking of vole molars ( ×15 ) ; D. enlargement of cracking , which appears to start in the dentine and then causes separation of the inner enamel surface ( ×75 ) ; E. slight chipping of enamel edge ( ×225 ) ; F. longitudinal splitting of incisor enamel ( ×15 ) ; G. slight modification of enamel surface of the incisor enamel ( same specimen as F. ) ( ×75 ) ; H. enlargement of enamel modification , showing it to be caused by splitting and flaking rather than etching ( ×375 ) ; I. femur head showing slight cracking ( ×26 ) ; J. enlargement of cracking ( ×75 ) ; K. splitting and cracking of tibia shaft ( ×38 ) ; L. enlargement of tibia ( ×75 ) ; M. splitting and depression of immature long bone shaft ( 15 ) ; N. enlargement of same ( ×60 ) . |
| 21 | The head holds the nucleus and is partly covered by a cap which probably contains a substance which helps to break down the wall of the ovum . |
| 22 | Treatment is free , but the Haematology Research Fund at Pembury , which helps to pay for the Clinic 's work in immunotherapy , is happy to accept contributions . |
| 23 | The names and addresses of senior judges in the Irish Republic , together with a document which purports to come from the office of the Chief of Staff of the Irish Army , surfaced yesterday as the latest in the series of security leaks , writes David McKittrick . |
| 24 | At the heart of his message was a call to belong to the ‘ kingdom of God ’ , which means to submit to the rule of God as king . |
| 25 | Once returned the papers are considered by an internal editorial committee , and the 800 or so that may merit publication are passed on to one of our two ‘ hanging committees ’ ( named after the committee at the Royal Academy that decides which pictures to hang in the summer exhibition ) . |
| 26 | A business which wishes to rely on the signature rule as a means of incorporating its terms into its contracts should ensure that the terms are signed by someone who has authority to bind its trading partners — for instance , a sales or purchasing director . |
| 27 | And who would have thought that as we face the 1990s the social and moral habits of the 1960s should be visited upon us in the guise of AIDS , which threatens to sweep across the world with all the terror and destruction of the black plague in the Middle Ages ? |
| 28 | ‘ But if the figures do stand up it is a remarkable achievement which shows what can be done by a hospital which decides to remain in the health service and not move into trust status . ’ |
| 29 | Worknet is the product of a growing awareness that within this community these are things which can be achieved by a well organised , well targeted voluntary organisation which seeks to assist in the creation of employment . |
| 30 | Getting in touch : Watershed New Contemporaries , six Avon-based photographers show portraiture which attempts to get beneath the surface of social and cultural identities . |