Example sentences of "[det] which [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This alternative strategy is in many respects less coherent than Owen 's and it is this which helps to explain the fact that Roger 's approach is often misunderstood by those outside the unit . |
| 2 | A journal such as this which seeks to facilitate the spread of technology is therefore very much to be welcomed . |
| 3 | This great weakness of vulnerability to fragmentation , is to be found in all established religions and it is this which has prevented any of them ever being able to offer to the rest of the world anything even approaching a promise of the universal happiness that is so desired . |
| 4 | It is this which has led some commentators to believe that the Eurocurrency market could create inflation within the US economy should large sums of Eurodollars be spent in the US by transformation , as it were , into domestic dollars . |
| 5 | It is this which has resulted in accelerated erosion . |
| 6 | It is this which has helped to prevent it from being completely submerged by later developments . |
| 7 | Unfortunately on these occasions , all too often the prick of conscience , if it has operated at all , is instantly suppressed before it can take control , and it is this which appears to have become the normal response . |
| 8 | This third National Government , like the Conservative-Liberal Unionist coalition of 1895–1905 , was the type of coalition government with which British history is much more familiar : a coalition between one major party and a fragment from another which has broken off because it disagrees with one of its parent party 's central tenets — in 1886 Home Rule , in 1931 unwillingness to reduce unemployment benefit on the part of Labour and unwillingness to tamper with free trade in the case of the Liberals . |
| 9 | In later life his love for seeking that which unites rather than that which divides found full scope in his devotion to Freemasonry , which became the ruling factor of his every action . |
| 10 | By far the most common and most difficult type of historical writing is that which seeks to lay bare the " true nature " of an event . |
| 11 | Bowlby ( 1980 ) describes attachment behaviour as that which seeks to maintain strong affectional bonds . |
| 12 | And I think that the strongest school-focused INSET is that which aims to do both . |
| 13 | Small children who engage in anti-social acts like tantrums and quarrelling are equally apt to be diagnosed as having been ‘ bitten ’ on their falad by one of a number of invisible beings : fangugyab , ‘ that which causes crying ’ , fangarisugan , ‘ that which causes quarrelling ’ , fansungun , ‘ that which causes depression ’ , and so on . |
| 14 | In the course of time the Mercian kingdom also came to embrace much of the territory , for example , of the Wocensaete or Wreocensaete , who took their name from the Wrekin and dominated the north Shropshire plain , and it would probably be the case , if charter-material had survived for this area of north-west Mercia analogous to that which has survived for the Hwicce , that kings of the Wreocensaete emerged in varying degrees of dependence on or subjection to the Mercian ruler . |
| 15 | So this is an example of erm a business that which has moved to and done very very well . |
| 16 | The principle behind the system of graded tests is not dissimilar to that which has inspired the introduction of GCSE . |
| 17 | The distinction between those cases and this is that the lawyer for the other can immediately attack the one — there is somebody there to protect the reputation of each defendant who is in the court — but in a case such as that which has affected my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West , there is no such opportunity to defend oneself . |
| 18 | In the right-hand path the proposition is that , far from continuously breaking new ground , most of the work that goes through design offices , etc. bears a strong relationship to that which has gone before . |
| 19 | While the trio are about to add another voice to their repertoire , this cut acknowledges a similar knowing quality to that which has become the stock in trade of the Pet Shop Boys . |
| 20 | However , the vocabulary for such a review will need to be more subtle and precise , and much less polarized , than that which has dominated discussion of such matters in primary education for the last two decades or so ( Alexander 1984 , 1989 , 1991 ) . |
| 21 | This eagerly awaited in-house project promises similar acclaim to that which has greeted previous productions including ‘ The Duchess of Malfi ’ — ( 1981 — ‘ 99.9% pure theatrical magic ’ Time Out ) , ‘ The Double ’ ( 1986 Time Out Critics ' Choice ) and ‘ Timon of Athens ’ ( 1989 — ‘ One of the most beautiful shows I have seen ’ , Germaine Greer , The Late Show BBC2 ) . |
| 22 | Alan is just 26 and it 's probably purely that which has got him my vote . |
| 23 | If the Government are not prepared to tolerate a situation of continuing violence six years after the previous Prime Minister first uttered those words , let them forsake that which has failed . |
| 24 | Earlier I drew a distinction between sexism that occurs in ‘ unregulated ’ contexts ( like the use of endearment terms to women ) and that which has acquired the force of a rule by being written on the linguistic equivalent of tablets of stone , the dictionary and the grammar book or usage guide . |
| 25 | The criterion governing the choice has been that which has directed Ortiz 's own collecting : aesthetic quality , with the additional requirement that the works of art should be representative of the best of their culture . |