Example sentences of "which [det] individual " in BNC.

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1 The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' .
2 Later , he shifted his focus from social hygiene ( segregation/surveillance/normalization ) to study mental hygiene ; the ways in which each individual is involved in self-policing .
3 ‘ The firm place on which each individual should stand in society is the rock of citizenship , an idea … strangely neglected in British life . ’
4 These differences are an indication of the unique way in which each individual is responding to the circumstances in which he finds himself and of the state of that person as a whole , that is they show how his healing powers are operating at that time .
5 Responsibility can not be delegated , so that a manager is accepted by his staff and has also the responsibility for providing an environment in which each individual is able to fulfil his obligations .
6 the oppositions between authority and freedom , self-expression and self-control , and masculinity and femininity , are among the basic conflicts around which an individual 's life develops and that they cover his responses to a wide range of logically unrelated issues … they represent some of the earliest developmental crises through which each individual in this particular culture passes : the impact of parental authority ; the demand for self-control , first physical , later verbal ; and the establishment of a satisfactory sexual identity .
7 These hierarchies supplied the ( God-given ) structure of society , the framework within which each individual found his appointed place and travelled on his path towards heaven ( or hell ) .
8 Thus , imagine a sessile species in which each individual has only one neighbour .
9 The actual proportion in which each individual holds his wealth depends upon the relative yields he receives on the whole range of assets , and upon his individual tastes and preferences .
10 This is the point at which each individual is discussed by his team in open session .
11 The multiplicity of groups to which each individual was obliged to belong placed further external restraints on his or her activities , and discouraged the expression of independent thought even among close friends or relatives .
12 What seems to the individual to be a free and spontaneous response can be seen from " outside " to be the product of social and ideological conditioning , or even in some instances of a concerted campaign to mould public opinion in such a way as to produce exactly the response which each individual feels and believes to be authentically his or hers alone .
13 As an example , take a spider in which each individual needs to find a good place in which to put its web , but good places for making webs are in short supply .
14 The sperm whales and narwhals use a more sophisticated system in which each individual has a unique sound .
15 The accommodation model deals with the adjustments which speakers make with respect to each other in a particular encounter , but it can not explain the " base line " of behaviour which each individual brings to that encounter , i.e. the speaker 's own norm , which is itself somehow related to the community 's norm .
16 ‘ An individual shall be entitled ( a ) at reasonable intervals and without undue delay or expense ( i ) to be informed by any data user whether he holds personal data of which that individual is subject , and ( ii ) to access to any such data held by a data user ; and ( b ) where appropriate to have such data corrected or erased . ’
17 What they have in common is that one person 's actions have direct costs or benefits for other people which that individual does not take into account .
18 The smallest organisms are no exception , and any mechanism by which some individuals can dominate others has value for survival .
19 Such a format will help to diminish the feeling of isolation which some individuals or departments may feel and will provide a forum for the exchange of views and ideas .
20 This implies a further deviation from democratic theory , a system within which some individuals and groups have special statuses .
21 The ‘ generalised other ’ Mead saw as a form of reference group ; a means by which some individuals assessed their norms and values in relation to some external authority .
22 4 What is the ethical justification of barring access to treatments which some individuals may benefit from ?
23 the evidence strongly indicates that employers are not especially concerned with the educational attainment of young workers in those sectors of the labour market in which such individuals tend to seek employment .
24 Thomas was trying to combine an understanding of the biological and instinctive drives underlying individual behaviour and the society of which these individuals formed part .
25 In this instance participation and team-building are particularly important , together with the development of objectives to which all individuals , sections , departments and so on can contribute .
26 Finally ( and this will raise a storm ) , a law should be enacted limiting the acreage which any individual ( or institution ) may farm ‘ in hand ’ .
27 Some argued , in effect , that the decision to distribute was not subject to judicial review because the distribution of information is not a public function but one which any individual is entitled to do ; and distributing false information is not , as such , a wrong recognized in private law .
28 I think that given that University work is supposed to encourage intellectual activity at the highest level of which any individual is capable it is very important to increase motivation by allowing those individuals to proceed at their own pace and to establish their cognitive frames as and when they feel capable of doing so .
29 The key to these statistics is the ‘ concordance rate ’ , the proportion of twins in which both individuals suffer from the illness .
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