Example sentences of "[prep] [det] which [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many banal and clumsy , weak and foolish artists have justified their work as that which saved them from despair . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Aesthetic appearance , rarity and durability may have been the physical attributes which led particular substances to be categorized as precious , but it was the fact of being recognized as such which made them effective as symbols . |
| 4 | Gandhi describes religions as human constructs or expressions of that which underlies them and gives them reality . |
| 5 | They would say that by existing things reflect the presence in them of that which transcends them . |
| 6 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 7 | Rather than attempting to repeat and surpass the exalted projects of Sartre or Althusser in a new guise , later writers such as Foucault or Derrida learnt a lesson from history , and stopped to ask why such comprehensive theories , like so many of those which preceded them , could not hold together . |
| 8 | Yet the scholarly energy which reinvigorated abstract concepts of political function was identical with that which satirized them . |
| 9 | This risk negligence also affected the choice of technology : projects which appeared to achieve high levels of production rapidly by using advanced technology would be preferred to those which achieved them more slowly by using more appropriate technology . |