Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] which [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | The model proposed embraces a concept of the aims and process of assessment which acknowledges its inherent complexity and the high level of skill required of practitioners . |
| 2 | But the Social Charter has been seriously weakened in the process of bargaining which preceded its adoption — particularly because of the opposition to all of its provisions from the Conservative government in Britain . |
| 3 | Each of these in isolation produces a form of curriculum which embodies its own emphases ; but it is surely better to consider them as the three necessary dimensions of any truly general education ( Squires 1987a ) . |
| 4 | The onward march of racism is traced through historical time and institutional space , from some presumed point of origination which defines its essential character , to a present conjuncture which is the summation of its effects . |
| 5 | Another stone much favoured in early times was turquoise , an opaque phosphate of aluminium which derives its sky-blue colour from traces of copper . |
| 6 | At present in the UK , each company has a board of directors which manages its affairs ; directors are elected , and may be removed , by shareholders in general meeting , and a general meeting normally also has a residual power , by a special resolution ( proposed as such and carried by a 75 per cent majority of the shares voted ) , to give a management direction to the board . |
| 7 | By so doing he originated a style of dance which owed its liveliness to the way such people behaved and danced in real life . |
| 8 | A company may sue for defamation , but only in respect of statements which damage its business reputation . |
| 9 | By definition , the government of the day controls a majority of the House of Commons which regulates its own procedures . |
| 10 | Up to this point the structuralism of Lévi-Strauss and Barthes has been characterized by a formal interest in the structure of signification which has its clear roots in structural linguistics . |
| 11 | Mr Bézier saw that a shape — any shape — could be described as a set of mathematical equations to fit the series of curves which formed its outline . |
| 12 | The Moselle winds through some 160 miles of tranquil countryside from the city of Koblenz at the Moselle 's junction with the Rhine , to old city of Trier which has its roots in Roman times . |
| 13 | I remember being amazed at the size of the placenta , which resembled a football and the lack of discomfort which accompanied its arrival . |
| 14 | Post Keynesian economics , a school of thought which finds its inspiration in Keynes , Kalecki , Joan Robinson and Sraffa , is distinguished by its insistence that history , social structure , and institutional practice be embodied in its theory and reflected in its policy recommendations . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the sheer quantity of nitrate fertilizer that is applied to much farmland — and it has increased five times since the 1930s — ; creates problems from the surface run-off of rainwater which finds its way into drainage channels and ditches and eventually into streams and rivers . |
| 16 | Its intentions were not borne out , perhaps could not be borne out , because it attempted to find a niche within a competitive industry without engaging in the sort of competition which guaranteed its rivals , success . |
| 17 | There are obviously many reasons for the conjunction of forces which produced its institutions and these must include the Reithian spirit ( described above ) , a political system secure enough to grant broadcasting a relatively free hand and the absence ( or the negation ! ) of deep social divisions . |
| 18 | The anthropological model allows us to detect within the lived experience of the play a system of complementarities which obeys its own laws , creating at the level of style a scale of discriminations that reinforce those perceived , perhaps intuitively , at the level of action . |
| 19 | Media is a complex , quite technical part of advertising which requires its own blend of skills . |
| 20 | Imitators who marketed potassium permanganate as ‘ Condy 's Crystals ’ ( and solutions of it as his fluid ) were the subject of litigation which reached its height in Australia at the turn of the century . |
| 21 | In this book she shows how in the years of the establishment of the Christian Church , holiness came to be defined by the exclusion of the female , and a concept of purity which had its roots in the Old Testament was used to establish the priesthood as a wholly male structure . |
| 22 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 23 | At the same time , while it is a kind of sociology which places its emphasis on all signifying systems , it is necessarily and centrally concerned with manifest cultural practices and production . |
| 24 | A POISONOUS cocktail of chemicals which found its way into the River Wey at Alton killed some 100 fish . |
| 25 | Even more than the exaltation of influence , the love of secrecy was concerned with the exercise of power which had its source not in the collective past but in the force of the individual will . |
| 26 | His was the quiet type of a Christ-lived life , and his influence was marked for good and for a strong quality of wisdom which left its mark upon many whom he came in contact with from day to day . |
| 27 | What worries me about a desire for achievement which finds its vindication solely in number is the externality of it all . |
| 28 | The start up company which opened its doors in June , as an independent supplier of multichip packaging and subsystems , bought out the DEC operation as a going concern . |
| 29 | A post mortum was performed on her body in Egypt , then another in england which confirmed its findings . |
| 30 | The result is that this sector of the industry now has a new generation of site distribution equipment to transport bulk food or plated meals , in equipment which suits its requirements , at sensible , serviceable and , most importantly , affordable prices . |