Example sentences of "[adj] which [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a marked concentration in the region of Sagittarius ( the Archer ) , and it was this which led to the discovery that we are having a lop-sided view of the Galaxy because we are not in the middle of it . |
| 2 | It was this which led to the appeal being re-argued before the Appellate Committee of seven which now reports to the House . |
| 3 | First , the process , as outlined in the diagram , is a scheme for research as well as for teaching conventionally considered : each is seen as a concomitant of the other , and it is this which provides for the professional development of the teacher . |
| 4 | The centre will , however , often ‘ attempt to neutralise the influences of local interests in local states ’ ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 41 ) , and we claim such an attempt has taken place from 1979 to 1988 and that it is this which lies behind the current restructuring of local-central government relations . |
| 5 | When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm . |
| 6 | It is probably this which accounts for the menu price rises . |
| 7 | Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) . |
| 8 | Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed an agreement in Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , on May 12 which provided for the forcible repatriation of all Vietnamese " economic refugees " from Hong Kong . |
| 9 | by the depth of the top surface Carboniferous which increases towards the N.N.E. An example is given by the Arsten Z1 borehole near Bremen where the boundary Westphalian C/D lying at a depth of 6180 m reaches the boundary between the anthracite and meta-anthracite stages with a vitrinite reflectance of 3.5% Rm ( for the top surface Carboniferous a value of 2.8% Rm was extrapolated ) . |
| 10 | A supervision order will cease to have effect if certain steps are taken or orders made under s25(1) ( a ) or ( b ) of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 which provide for the recognition and enforcement of foreign custody orders . |
| 11 | It is 2 which amounts to the ratio decidendi of the case . |
| 12 | The result is a ludic collapsing of autonomous theoretical systems on the basis of structural similarities or ‘ slips ’ from one to another which point to the common ‘ story ’ underlying them . |
| 13 | Half a mile or so along the valley bottom , the path converged with another which led down the hill from the village . |
| 14 | The Volkskammer passed a law on July 22 which provided for the re-establishment of the five Länder abolished by the East German government after the war : Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , and Thuringia . |
| 15 | Er it is about the future provision of section eleven which appears in the main report , you will no doubt appear as part of the budget debate . |
| 16 | Following this judgment , it now seems almost impossible to conceive of a clause preventing set-off which fell within the ambit of s 3 ( ie either in a consumer contract , or in written standard conditions ) which would be both commercially practical and legally enforceable . |
| 17 | Of the suggestions that we have canvassed the one that seems to be the most promising is that which points to the emergence of classical measuring instruments from a quantum mechanical substrate , even if the mode and consistency of this happening is harder to comprehend than Copenhagen orthodoxy is willing to recognise . |
| 18 | The inconsistencies in public opinion point to the existence of a substantial section of opinion characterised by a cynicism almost as profound at that which lurks beneath the celestial rhetoric of George Bush . |
| 19 | The defendant was held liable , for the fire which did the damage was not that which broke out in the carburettor but that which spread to the car and this second or continuing fire did not ‘ accidentally ’ begin . |
| 20 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 21 | Where crops were sold both by large estates and small farmers or peasants , the situation was more complex , though in peasant economies , for obvious reasons , the proportion of the crop which came on the world market — i.e. which was not consumed by the producers — from large estates was normally much larger than that which came from the peasant holdings . |
| 22 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 23 | The sedentary farmer succeeded the migrant shepherd as the agent by whom the soil of Spain was squandered ; by the early nineteenth century cereals occupied perhaps three-quarters of the cultivable land , an imbalance between crop and animal husbandry as pernicious as that which prevailed in the heyday of wool . |
| 24 | The greatest single factor that continues to arise in every type of accident is that which falls under the all embracing heading of ‘ human error ’ . |
| 25 | But the real point is that , in contemporary Western society , the network of relations within the domestic household is built on an evaluation of exchange transactions which is , in certain respects , just the converse of that which operates in the capitalist world of wage relationships outside . |
| 26 | In any event , residence of some kind was the hallmark of establishment in so far as establishment involved economic integration in the host member state of a kind that was greater than that which arose from the provision of a cross-border service . |
| 27 | That will have a disastrous effect upon the locality equal to that which arose from the threat of the route . |
| 28 | Yet it is this policy making , often particularly that which occurs at the highest level , that receives very much more attention . |
| 29 | This uniformity expresses that which occurs in the progress of autumn to winter , of day to night , and of fire to ashes just as the symmetry in the rhythm show light and dark . |
| 30 | The knowledge which is concentrated in government agencies is not only that which derives from the employment of professionals , scientists and technologists . |