Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , internally , you need to make sure that your auditors and your , and everyone understands the same thing . |
| 2 | For now , we should look at more of the essential components of life on Earth : the energy that comes from the Sun , and which keeps the whole system rolling ; and the atmosphere itself , which protects us from too much of that radiation , and provides several of life 's essential ingredients . |
| 3 | Classical elitists regarded Marxism as a religious faith , a prophylactic for the downtrodden proletariat which wrongly attributes all previous systems of elite rule to economic forces , and which ignores the inescapable evidence that organizational logic and the psychological dependence of a mass of citizens on leadership makes ineluctable some such structure of domination . |
| 4 | ‘ Appropriate ’ technology might usefully be defined as an idea which is of benefit to the people of developing countries , and which meets the following criteria : |
| 5 | We shall here use adjectival position to mean any construction which has the function of realizing some distinct pattern of intensional relations , and which meets the following criteria : ( a ) It contains an adjective as one of its elements ; ( b ) It is minimally extended for that adjective , i.e. there are no further elements dependent on the adjective ( since all such phrases will reduce in their structural effect to a single occurrence of adjective anyway ) ; ( c ) It is minimally complete for that adjective ; that is , the adjective achieves its structural effect within the construction , so that setting the whole pattern into a larger construction can not change the effective value of the adjective . |
| 6 | It seems to represent a programme which is extremely good value for the taxpayer and which offers the best prospects of much better services for the user . |
| 7 | Ms Radice correctly reasons that her constituency is not the art community , but Congress , which authorises and funds the endowment , and which represents the American people in toto . |
| 8 | And which produces the minimum amount of manipulation and that was that the second one was n't it ? |
| 9 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 10 | It 's important for the foreign traveller to accumulate lots of useless gadgetry and ephemera that they 'd never dream of buying normally , and which makes the whole process of travelling so much more cumbersome and awkward for others . |
| 11 | Mr Burtt has asked my advice on payment of the enclosed invoice for £690 for an order raised by Mrs Gregory which did not go through the agreed procedures , and which exceeds the total amount available for all staff . |
| 12 | The chief executive or clerk of the authority will from time to time report to the council and its committees on all legislation which is new and which affects the local authority . |
| 13 | Hellings ' fit yielded and which confirms the unique consistency of GR with measurements in the solar system . |
| 14 | I suggest that any hon. Member with a constituency problem should get in touch with the Securities and Investments Board , which is taking the lead in this matter and which knows the individual details of specific cases . |
| 15 | ‘ So I gathered , ’ I said dryly , ‘ and would you also ask which horses are running at Winnipeg and which at Vancouver , and which in Bill 's opinion is the really best horse on the train , not necessarily on form , and which has the best chance of winning either race . ’ |
| 16 | At a time when the clarion call is for intensified training , higher education and greater specialization , it is a contradiction in terms to attempt to eradicate one of the best educated specialized sectors of the community , a sector that has taken hundreds of years to be created and which has the rare advantage of combining its specialized knowledge with a practical technique inherited over centuries . |
| 17 | They were also able to establish control over the Social Accounting Service , which is the official body through which all enterprises have to make their bank payments , and which has the specific responsibility of checking on the validity of bills of exchange . |
| 18 | When we have to compare the values of numbers it is important to know which has the greatest , and which has the least value . |
| 19 | It has been well argued that the great procession , headed by the Host and including the orders of the Church and social guilds , interrupted by the plays performed by the guild members reminding followers of the archetypal story of God 's plan of salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement , provided opportunity for participating in that sense of unity beyond division which is the heart of Christian belief , and which underpins the social value put on the more isolated lives of contemplatives . |
| 20 | I 'll mention one small part of it only … evidence collected as a result of the epidemics of 1853 and 1854 by Dr Snow and which concerns the southern districts of London . |
| 21 | The bedrock aspirations these educators have had in common , as far as early childhood educational opportunities are concerned , are expressed in a recently published book which is based on contemporary research and which shows the continuing aspiration for a comprehensive preschool service : |
| 22 | We 've got ta have a direction , and it 's not about who gets the best jobs and who gets the best power positions , it 's about dictating an agenda by the members for the members in the interests of our members , the T & g 's members and all trade unionists in this country . |
| 23 | It found that a number of them were ‘ what could be described as pits ’ , according to the Nigerian ambassador , BA Clark , who headed the team and who represents the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ( Untag ) in Angola . |
| 24 | If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so . |
| 25 | Rape clearly contravenes international law and she cites the 1907 Hague Conventions , the '49 Geneva Conventions and the '77 Protocols to make her point . |
| 26 | For the devotees She is indulgence incarnate and She represents the divine grace that delivers creatures from worldly distress and bondage . |
| 27 | ‘ And she thinks the leaking vessels are in the same places as before , which I suppose is good news . |
| 28 | Well she a lot cheaper and she fills the bloody basket up . |
| 29 | The female is a paler version , and she lacks the dorsal spike and coloured patch in the pectoral fin . |
| 30 | with the red hat , and she dyes the red hat |