Example sentences of "which [vb -s] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this covenant which ordains that the Christian Maronites hold the presidency , the leadership of the army and the head of the judiciary while Sunni Muslims provide the prime minister and Shia Muslims the speaker of the Lebanese parliament . |
| 2 | However , there is in addition a standard objection which holds that no such lessons can be drawn at all , at least in any directly logical way , since any project of deriving ethical content from premisses of evolutionary theory commits the ‘ naturalistic fallacy ’ , an error which is today often equated with that of trying to derive ought from is . |
| 3 | Informally put , in the case of an oligopolistic market this can be achieved by an agreement which specifies that the punishing firms choose outputs or prices which yield them higher profit than at the collusive allocation , so that they would actually gain in the punishment phase . |
| 4 | In doing so , he broke the ‘ fourth wall ’ rule , which assumes that an invisible wall separates the studio/TV audience from the home of the sitcom family . |
| 5 | However Japan and Iceland have taken advantage of a loophole in the regulation which says that a certain number of whales can be killed for scientific purposes . |
| 6 | The move has been welcomed by Datarange , which says that the financial stability which its new parent will bring will better enable it to pursue its business strategy . |
| 7 | The suggestion that the Chinese made American civilisation says more about the myths of the modern age ( especially the one which says that the Confucian world will dominate the 21st century ) . |
| 8 | In addition , ( 9.4 ) can be rewritten as which says that the objective function values of LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) and D ( w 1 , … , w p ) , its dual problem , are equal . |
| 9 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 10 | Hon. Members could easily have been misled by referring to a previous Hansard which shows that a substantial number of ships are on order but fails to reflect the Government 's commitment to naval shipbuilding . |
| 11 | Council have provided us with a table which shows that the present value of one pound per annum , payable for the next twenty five years , discounted at four point five percent is fourteen point eight two eight two one pounds , unquote . |
| 12 | Our evidence which shows that the first glimmerings of our new paradigm emerged around 1860 and we expect that by 2010 the shift will be virtually complete , although it will take longer for its changes to affect everyone . |
| 13 | There is , however , separate evidence which shows that the Jovian interior is indeed hot , namely , that Jupiter radiates energy to space at a greater rate than that at which it absorbs energy from the Sun . |
| 14 | Each student must produce evidence which shows that the five performance criteria relating to the investigation Outcome have been met . |
| 15 | The result for n = 1 is found by letting n tend to unity which shows that the second term in the expression is while the first term is zero . |
| 16 | The history of the British car industry ( refer to Chapter 4 ) , which has seen a whole series of mergers , is one example which shows that the potential benefits of mergers are not automatically secured . |
| 17 | These low thresholds gave an urban population embracing about 90 per cent of the total , and the rural/urban differences shown in Table 5.6 , which reveals that the greatest contrasts are to be found in cars per household and the percentage of people travelling to work on public transport ( both related to each other and to the low density of rural areas ) ; the percentage in social classes I and II ; the rate of unemployment ; and the percentage of those working in manufacturing . |
| 18 | The formulation of the theory of labour supply violates the classical homogeneity postulate which states that a scalar multiplication of all nominal quantities should leave real quantities , and the functional relationships that underlie them , unchanged . |
| 19 | At present , councils can spend on economic development by using a section of the 1973 local government act which states that a local authority can incur expenditure which , in its opinion , is in the interests of their area or its inhabitants . |
| 20 | Using functional notation , we can write : unc which states that the total number of jobs on offer is a function of , or depends on , the rate of national income and real labour costs . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind the need to keep the business rate down , has my hon. Friend had time to glance at a pamphlet entitled ’ The Citizens ' Charter ’ , written in 1921 by one Herbert Morrison , then secretary of the London Labour party , which states that the best way to improve local services is to increase competition ? |
| 22 | The Association 's solicitor , Charles Hennessy , pointed out that they contemplated taking proceedings ‘ under the Local Government Planning and Development Act , 1976 , which states that the High Court may , on application from any person , by order , prohibit the continuance of an unauthorized use of land when a breach of the planning conditions occur ’ . |
| 23 | Each contains an almost identical preface which states that the overriding aim of the document is to focus upon ‘ aims , objectives , content , teaching approaches and assessment ’ . |
| 24 | In other words one of the traditional defences of private property which states that an optimal allocation of resources results from owners ( who it is assumed control their property ) pursuing their own self-interest could be invoked to justify insisting that the company was run in the interests of the shareholders alone . |
| 25 | In classical terms the mechanical properties of elastic solids can be described by Hooke 's law , which states that an applied stress is proportional to the resultant strain , but is independent of the rate of strain . |
| 26 | As we have seen , wood depends for its defences against crack propagation partly upon Jeronimidis ' work of fracture contrivance — which ensures that the critical Griffith crack length is a long one — and also , by way of a further safety device , upon the Cook-Gordon mechanism for stopping any crack which gets past George . |
| 27 | It is the total change in perspective and new semantic outlook which ensures that the subjective nature of the liminal journey can be used as an essential part of the analysis ; for it can produce a dynamic simply because it incorporates aspects of a newly created ideological disjunction , as some classic accounts have shown . |
| 28 | An ‘ Engineering Applications ’ laboratory is available , which ensures that the practical component of the course is prominent in the first and second years . |
| 29 | The Activity Book for the student contains a wealth of material which ensures that the maximum benefit will be gained from the video . |
| 30 | Writing is a motor skill which ensures that the same words written by different people are distinct — allowing signatures to be used as verification of identity . |