Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] its [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compensation claim covered a period between 1919 and 1967 when Nauru was under Australian administration , during which time its phosphates were extracted and sold at below market prices . |
| 2 | As it happens , Baden has more than commercial prosperity for which to thank its industries . |
| 3 | As has been recorded in this chapter , the principal anti-cancer drugs have been discovered either as a by-product of military research financed by government or by research in the pharmaceutical industry , much of which had its roots in research not primarily concerned with cancer . |
| 4 | My Department received more than 800 representations in response to the consultation paper , ’ A New Tax for Local Government ’ , most of which welcomed its principles . |
| 5 | The extent of illness has been measured in different ways , each of which has its strengths and weaknesses as an index of morbidity . |
| 6 | It was symbolic , perhaps , of the deep-rooted nature of national instincts that the ECSC could not agree upon a single language in which to conduct its activities . |
| 7 | The octopus has no trace of a shell within the flesh of its body , but one species , the argonaut , secretes from one of its arms a marvellous paper-thin version shaped very like a nautilus shell but without chambers , which it uses not as a home for itself but as a delicate floating chalice in which to lay its eggs . |
| 8 | Even so , the propaganda which set out to promote the aggrandizement of the figure of Franco , almost to the point of beatification , could not have succeeded without fertile ground in which to plant its seeds . |
| 9 | The left has only a small window of opportunity in which to put its views across ; it needed every week and month it could get . |
| 10 | The project decided that the conferences already organized in a variety of subject disciplines would be the best medium in which to achieve its aims , and consequently its primary objective has been to assist in planning/executing bibliographic instruction-related programmes at these conferences . |
| 11 | Consequently , a private company which has 10 months in which to file its accounts , and has an accounting reference date of 30 September , must file its accounts at Companies House on 30 July at the latest and not on 31 July . |
| 12 | The public has a month more in which to make its feelings known . |
| 13 | Extensive shallow lakes or lagoons of salt or soda water , where it builds conical heaps of mud on which to lay its eggs . |
| 14 | The exchange should have a mechanism by which to enforce its members ' compliance with the rules . |
| 15 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 16 | Its own stamens , however , do not produce their pollen until later by which time its eggs will have been cross-fertilised by exploring insects . |