Example sentences of "which pride [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chez Gerard , a London restaurant which prides itself on its Frenchness and its wine list , is just one now considering offering non-French wines for the first time , including some from the Antipodes . |
| 2 | The company , which prides itself on its environmental record , decided a final solution was needed to avoid in one fell swoop the seasonal embarrassment of leaves on the line . |
| 3 | Take this from a Spare Rib interview with Catherine Itzin , founding member of the Campaign Against Pornography And Censorship ( CPC ) , which prides itself on a definition of pornography which would leave ‘ erotica ’ untouched by any new law . |
| 4 | Meantime at Southampton University , which prides itself on having the largest optoelectronics research group in the UK with 100 scientists , its own fabrication facilities and 35 dark room labs , activities are focussed on a variety of optical fibre , laser and sensor devices . |
| 5 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 6 | This paradoxical state of affairs is the result of three factors : due , first , to the large number of commanders who , like Wojciech Jaruzelski , trace their formative upbringing to the USSR and the Soviet organised First and Second Polish Armies of the Second World War ; secondly , to the social ostracism suffered by officers belonging to an army which prides itself on being the guardian of Communist as well as national values . |
| 7 | In an institution which prides itself on keeping politicians at arm 's length ( a rare achievement in Italy ) , Mr Dini 's contacts with the former government of Giulio Andreotti were unpopular . |
| 8 | Even Sun , which prides itself on its ‘ belligerent consistency ’ or sometimes just on its belligerence , said it could see itself negotiating issues . |
| 9 | As W S Steer pointed out , ‘ … the department which prides itself on never making a mistake is almost certainly grossly overstaffed ’ ( Wiseman 1970:87 ) . |
| 10 | A school which prides itself on its history . |
| 11 | At stake the image of a party which prides itself on being loyal , but which has been riven by dissent . |
| 12 | The result of this advance publicity not wildly accurate as it turns out spelt potential disaster for NBT which prides itself on making its work more accessible to youngsters . |
| 13 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 14 | In July 1868 — barely a year after leaving Blomfield 's office — his first novel , ‘ The poor man and the lady ’ , was submitted to Macmillan , a firm which prided itself on the quality of its fiction list . |
| 15 | The division , which prided itself on its knowledge of the oil companies and the oil world , believed ( as it subsequently proved , with some justification ) that we were paying more for our naphtha than we strictly needed to do . |
| 16 | Prominent amongst these was the Eye-Witness , an erratic , often brilliant weekly , which prided itself on exposing corruption in high places and advocating a wider distribution of property based on broadly Christian principles , or distributism . |