Example sentences of "[det] which [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible to conceive of dialectical materialism without atheism , and it is this which underlies Marxism as an ideology . |
| 2 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 3 | This is one of the few indications that Eliot gave of the fact that , in the periods between illness when he carried on with his ordinary duties in London ( as much as anyone 's life was " ordinary " then ) , he experienced the horror of the German raids : the nightly bombings , the streets blocked with rubble , the glow in the evening as fires burned throughout the city , and the peculiarly dank smell of ruined buildings : it was this which provoked fear , precluded concentration on other things , and destroyed the will to work . |
| 4 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 5 | Second , they 're no longer played by ugly gits like Charles Bronson , but by pretty ethnics such as Lou Diamond Phillips who can plausibly claim to have Cherokee blood somewhere in their veins ( it was this which landed Phillips the lead in The Dark Wind , the recent Robert Redfordbacked adaptation of one of Tony Hillerman 's Navajo detective novels ) . |
| 6 | It is this which strengthens claims that Richard 's usurpation was a series of panic responses rather than a coherent scheme . |
| 7 | It is this which strengthens claims that Richard 's usurpation was a series of panic responses rather than a coherent scheme . |
| 8 | It is this which causes Birmingham to be scorned . |
| 9 | Its instinct is to root itself in truth , to earth itself in reality , and it is this which distinguishes faith from fantasy , the object of faith from a figment of the imagination . |
| 10 | It was this which incensed Presbyterians and led to complaints about him in the Westminster Assembly . |
| 11 | Scanning through the Utopia 's 128 presets , the first thirty being exclusive to this system , Rocktron have tried to make them as varied as possible in order to demonstrate the rig 's potential , and while most of them are usable there are a few which defy logic . |
| 12 | It contains sixteen basic rules , which include some for overall control and some which collect data . |
| 13 | One significant clause to be deleted was that which denied farmers the right to challenge compensation payments . |
| 14 | Distinctly the minority view is that which allows laughter at both tales to be free of moral implications and which thus allows the tales genuinely to be fun — which would not , of course , imply that the two tales are vacuous exercises aimed at giving pleasure alone . |
| 15 | The remaining type of clause is that which limits liability by reference to an overall monetary figure . |
| 16 | Such as he can not comprehend that which prompts others to give their heart free rein ! |
| 17 | Ika delivered to me an ‘ express letter ’ invitation to a party , by means of the Pneumatique — a strange device , comparable , I supposed , to that which sent cash round department stores . |
| 18 | When remarriage of the parent-with-custody takes place , the adjustment of the child to parental relationships will greatly affect that which takes place with the step-parent . |
| 19 | Goodness is defined as that which pleases God , so the Christian with a clear conscience is the one who is totally absorbed with pleasing him . |
| 20 | The second basic element of initiation is that which relates newcomers to their fellow teachers , a process of acculturation whereby they become members of the group . |
| 21 | My consideration of difference originated in a turn to history in order to repudiate one such theory — specifically , that which construed homosexuality as an embrace of the same because of a fear of the different . |
| 22 | An alternative vision of human flourishing to that which underlies wealth maximisation as a social goal ranks autonomy above continued increases in material well-being , and thus calls into question the legitimacy of non-participative organisations . |
| 23 | Observers noted that some changes , such as that which enabled President Fidel Castro to declare a state of emergency , and appoint himself leader of the National Defence Council in such an event , merely institutionalized already existing situations . |
| 24 | In fact , the World Bank believes that aid to black Africa ( now running at about £10 billion a year , the same figure as that which caused Community jaws to drop when suggested by Jacques Delors for Eastern Europe ) needs to increase by nearly 50 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 25 | He begins by allowing the possibility of schism , such as that which took place in the Roman Empire ( II , 84 ) , which implies that humans can choose not to allow totalization . |
| 26 | In Chapter 7 , we saw how several nutritional factors were detected — Will 's principle , found in yeast extracts and active against a tropical anaemia ; a similar material to that which prevented anaemia in monkeys ; the substance derived from spinach which was necessary for the growth of various microbes ; and substances from yeast and from liver also needed by microbes . |
| 27 | The most popular work was that which allowed students freedom to work on their own — projects , for example . |
| 28 | He was burrowing into responsibilities , looking for them almost , for they gave substance to that which bound Emily to him — and still the shock of jealousy pulsed occasionally making him shudder so that he blushed to seem to be shivering . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most useful body of literature and experience to look at is that which addresses approaches to counselling . |
| 30 | Thus the lack of forestry conservation that ultimately drowns humans is precisely the same as that which robs tigers of their homes over much of the East . ) |