Example sentences of "is the [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 To whatever degree you have placed the responsibility for your feelings of love and wholeness on someone else , is the degree to which you are bound to disappointment .
2 One of the most important aspects of a writer 's creative personality is the degree to which he or she is sensitive and responsive to changes in public tastes , and is able to sense when such changes are in the ascendancy , acceptable to the vast majority of people , and can be successfully used within an advertising context .
3 Bachelard and Cavaillès agree that the distinguishing characteristic of modern science is the degree to which it has become separated from common-sense knowledge so that consciousness and its concepts are now opposed :
4 What differentiates them is the degree to which it is acknowledged that an attempt to influence those above is being made .
5 The test of any methodology or specialized mode of study is the degree to which it illuminates rather than obscures the primary cultural values inherent in literature .
6 Is the evidence on which I base my denial of God actually non-experience , in which case how can I be sure that this is not caused by my own limitations in accessing what in reality exists ?
7 This is the sense in which they do little more than ‘ raise red flags ’ .
8 By sublimation I mean here not the conversion of sexuality per se into a higher , non-sexual aim , but the displacement of one kind of sexuality into another — or , more exactly ( and this is the sense in which I still subscribe to Freud 's notion ) , the contamination of a higher ( i.e. socially approved ) sexuality by a lower ( i.e. proscribed ) one .
9 Short-term memory is the phenomenon by which we can remember a telephone number long enough after looking it up to be able to dial it .
10 The circumstances which govern this price for any given amount of the commodity vary in character from one problem to another ; but in every case the more of a thing is offered for sale in a market the lower is the price at which it will find purchasers ; or in other words , the demand price for each bushel or yard diminishes with every increase in the amount offered .
11 When a dealer buys or sells goods , the cost price is the price at which he buys the goods and the selling price is the price at which he sells the goods .
12 When a dealer buys or sells goods , the cost price is the price at which he buys the goods and the selling price is the price at which he sells the goods .
13 The importance of such policies is the way in which they redistribute resources and accessibility within the countryside .
14 The first and most obvious is the way in which they work .
15 Their most important asset is the way in which they can deflect light .
16 That is the way in which they think that they can make the economy grow .
17 Eleven such triple junctions , each possibly associated with a separate hot spot , have been identified on the continental part of the African Plate and an intriguing problem is the way in which they may subsequently promote continental rupture and develop into spreading centres .
18 Perhaps more interesting than the individual entries is the way in which they are cross-referenced to so many other entries in the encyclopedia .
19 One of the oddest features of human history is the way in which we use randomizing devices — the fall of dice , cards , or millet sticks , the tea-leaves in the bottom of a cup , the cracks in a scapula thrown on the fire — to foretell the future .
20 Of all the obstacles to learning , perhaps the greatest is the way in which we approach practice .
21 Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to .
22 ‘ It has to be in our interests … for us to try to get more jobs in West Belfast … that is the way in which we will reduce the terrorist menace , by making people economically independent from terrorism .
23 We prefer this because we believe that this is the way in which we can learn from our mistakes ; and that in finding that our conjecture was false we shall have learnt much about the truth , and shall have got nearer to the truth .
24 That is the right way to help people , it is the right way to achieve long-term prosperity for this country and it is the way in which we have been developing our policies .
25 That is the way in which we should deport ourselves .
26 One of its striking features is the way in which it grapples with the many difficult and conflicting issues which that report — and all the other soul-searching reviews of the 1980s — had highlighted .
27 A further distinguishing feature of the Duval-Leroy is the way in which it has its feet firmly planted in the vineyards rather than in the cities of Reims or Épernay .
28 One of the most striking and curious aspects of the social history of child abuse is the way in which it was denied and ignored by the professionals , notably doctors .
29 Even more amazing than this remote-control brooding is the way in which it visits the mound at regular intervals and tests the temperature inside with its beak .
30 It will be argued that one of the central features of the business company is the way in which it centralizes the authority to manage the capital which it aggregates from its investors in the hands of corporate managers .
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