Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As W S Steer pointed out , ‘ … the department which prides itself on never making a mistake is almost certainly grossly overstaffed ’ ( Wiseman 1970:87 ) . |
| 2 | In taking this first step to rational choice , the single imperative which imposes itself is none other than ‘ Face facts ’ , which has exerted its authority from his first recognition of the obstinate resistance of external circumstance to his desires . |
| 3 | Lycomings offer the choice of two : ‘ max power ’ , defined as the ‘ leanest mixture which produces highest IAS from a given rpm and manifold pressure ’ , and ‘ best economy ’ m which defines itself , i.e. the cruise technique which will require less fuel for a given distance but will take more time . |
| 4 | In an institution which prides itself on keeping politicians at arm 's length ( a rare achievement in Italy ) , Mr Dini 's contacts with the former government of Giulio Andreotti were unpopular . |
| 5 | By its very nature the trial is a passive form of review which confines itself to an examination of the finished product of the police investigation . |
| 6 | Certainly simulation by shifting to other viewpoints is a kind of analogizing the active kind which makes myself like instead of recognizing as alike . |
| 7 | The racism which manifests itself in employment is only one , albeit crucial , part of the general experience of discrimination and subordination that black people have had to confront in Britain . |
| 8 | It is an establishment which still , rather too easily , defaults to a competitive , male-dominated and achievement-oriented set of attitudes and values which finds itself — as evidence by a plethora of Pembroke route names — in easy sympathy with militarism . |
| 9 | One does come across entrepreneurial academics , but there is still something slightly suspect in the academic world about making , as distinct from earning , money which manifests itself in the grey area of consultancy . |
| 10 | There is also a sizeable literature on explaining the size distribution of income which concerns itself with the specific shape this takes ( positively skewed ( right-hand tail ) and leptokurtic ( hump-shaped ) or leptokurtic lognormal ) , both over different time periods and in different countries . |
| 11 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 12 | And the final reflection which suggests itself is that if this pattern of behaviour should prove to be normal , it should be assumed — at least until the contrary is demonstrated — that it is beneficial and has been evolved by trial and error as a preservative device or mechanism . |
| 13 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 14 | The result of this advance publicity not wildly accurate as it turns out spelt potential disaster for NBT which prides itself on making its work more accessible to youngsters . |
| 15 | ‘ The manufacture which forces itself upon a stranger 's eye is that of knit-stockings , on which the women of the lower class are visibly employed . ’ |
| 16 | A group which perpetuates itself by endogamous sexual reproduction usually has some perception of ethnic identity . |
| 17 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 19 | Thus , anger may militate against sexual satisfaction in oneself or prevent one 's allowing satisfaction to a partner by its own effect ; or the guilt underlying anger may similarly impede love-making/relationships ; or sexual pleasure may promote guilt which evinces itself as anger which … |
| 20 | The law of contempt is a doctrine of wide scope which manifests itself in a variety of types of contempt . |
| 21 | I have grown it myself for the last twelve years , in a small colony in a north-facing border which maintains itself by self-sown seedlings . |
| 22 | The Zike is a battery-powered bicycle which recharges itself when free-wheeling downhill . |
| 23 | Crataegus , or hawthorn , makes a dense hedge which lends itself well to severe formal trimming |
| 24 | For freedom is maintained by a self-possession which extends itself to anything that threatens its identity . |
| 25 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 26 | But , as used generally , a plate is a whole page illustration , coloured or otherwise , printed separately from the text and usually on a different type of paper which lends itself to glossy reproduction . |
| 27 | For any adult education movement which addresses itself seriously to education for social change , such alliances are of profound importance — as arenas within which really useful knowledge can be learned , as subjects for learning from , and as sites of practical intervention in the form of participatory research and independent analysis . |
| 28 | Machismo is an exaggerated cult of virility which expresses itself in male assertions of superiority over females , and competition between men . |
| 29 | As a result , one can indeed envisage a situation in which we have before us an over production in all links of the chain which expresses itself in an over-production of means of consumption , i.e. in an overproduction in relation to the consumer market , which is precisely the expression of a general over-production . |
| 30 | He clearly favours a state which involves itself essentially through monetary transaction rather than direct intervention in other more qualitative spheres of life . |