Example sentences of "[det] which [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this which helps us to recognize that an object is from a certain period or particular place . |
| 2 | The key is the understanding of deaf children 's processing of their own language , and it is this which requires our immediate and continued attention . |
| 3 | This is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ and it is this which determines his answer , in the absence of central control . |
| 4 | And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on . |
| 5 | While English tends to modify by use of adjectives or adverbs , BSL tends to use inflection especially in relation to the verb and it is this which makes its story formation rather different . |
| 6 | And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on . |
| 7 | This was the one constraint on the expressions which could be used to set up trusts ; and it is this which explains their unexpected prominence in the discussions of the jurists . |
| 8 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 9 | Such information is required , for instance , to compare the success rates of two schools , one of which only enters those who are likely to pass , and another which allows anyone to enter . |
| 10 | This is due , in part , to the ability of the powerful to criminalise and stigmatise that which threatens their interests ; and to the fact that basic motivations of capitalist societies , such as materialism and self-enrichment , can be pursued both legally and illegally . |
| 11 | This is a key point because you should always feel more or less equal to that which confronts you . |
| 12 | The Bill should be supported , but unless a much more determined attack on the problem , and its roots , is launched , we shall , I fear , have to address at some point in the future an even more hideous nightmare than that which confronts us now . |
| 13 | The notion of justice which I find most convincing is that which tells us that we ought to seek a society in which each person is accepted as of equal moral worth and has equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total sum of society 's goods . |
| 14 | They would say that by existing things reflect the presence in them of that which transcends them . |
| 15 | It has to be possible to see within reality the presence of that which transcends it — what the Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called ‘ the beyond in our midst ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're inviting into your lives a negative force , welcoming that which tempts us all , but transforming that emptiness , that jealousy , that hatred into a living , breeding monstrosity . |
| 17 | The kind of strength you need to develop is that which allows you to move your body or limbs through a short , fast contraction . |
| 18 | We must lose that which constitutes our peculiar energy . ’ |
| 19 | Already I know all about the ‘ reality ’ that supports History 's progress : everything throughout the centuries depends on the distinction between the Selfsame , the ownself … and that which limits it : so now what menaces my-own-good … is the ‘ other ’ . |
| 20 | To make continued use of the slope of the wave it is best to sail along the wave face in either direction , but the favoured direction is that which takes you upwind . |
| 21 | Gandhi describes religions as human constructs or expressions of that which underlies them and gives them reality . |
| 22 | I know there are terrible things out there , but that is n't an excuse for giving up on that which sustains us in this life . |
| 23 | ‘ Isa has not seen me since the happy news and it is that which restores me to near my old self . ’ |
| 24 | Since what I am to say must be but that Which contradicts my accusation … |
| 25 | As Bing Taylor , W H Smith 's general manager books , put it succinctly : ‘ It is essential that the owners or managers of a bookshop or chain have a crystal clear vision of their own philosophy , that which differentiates their business from all other booksellers … |
| 26 | If you simply enjoy the countryside , we can add an extra dimension — and protect that which gives you so much pleasure . |
| 27 | There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system . |
| 28 | You know this whole of idea of things and ritual being the holy and that things in the ritual there yes , there are sacred symbols and they need to be handled in that , that , that sense of sacredness , but the that which makes them sacred is the person , our Lord and us in communion with him and with each other and it seems to me that wherever that happens there is sacrament . |
| 29 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 30 | Its purpose , he explained , was to serve ‘ that part of theology which is wholly practical ; that which makes us wiser because it makes us better ’ . |