Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They lived in 264 houses which averages 5.36 persons to a household .
2 The search for training which fits this description in the management of education is hindered in two ways : it has long been an area for tension between theorists and practitioners and it has from time to time been exposed to management models from fields where practice and purpose are very different from those of education .
3 A lot of wc bowls now have a straight outlet , which fits any kind of fixing with the correct coupling .
4 Policy-making is inevitably , and universally , a long , drawn-out process which involves many people within the organisation .
5 He had hoped to see the opening of the ‘ Ballymurphy Seven ’ trial , which involves alleged attacks on security forces , but said the trial date had been postponed .
6 Paasi then investigates what he terms the ‘ institutionalization of regions ’ , the process by which they are created , which involves four stages in the formation of ‘ structures of expectations ’ that embrace both the physical and the cultural characteristics of a region .
7 The Department has specific responsibility for senior management remuneration , management development and Group personnel policies which involves close liaison with Personnel colleagues and line managers throughout the world .
8 A full-length performance , which premiered at The Place Threatre 's Indian Summer Festival in London , which involves young dancers from London and Oxford in some pieces .
9 This normally encompasses balances , status , arrears , movers and a full payment history which involves complete confidence in sharing information .
10 ‘ It is within the little boxes which the division of labour has bequeathed us , a solidarity in other words which involves permanent concern with the boundary of one 's own box , and thus with comparability .
11 To achieve this end , however wide the variety of ways in which ill-health is dealt with , it is vital to establish a single focal point of faith for all that area of healing which involves some power of the mind , and this is probably , most of it .
12 This is mainly due to the complexity of the AP response , which involves several tissues with possible feed-back loops .
13 Medical treatment which involves any touching of a patient is still analysed generally in law as lawful because the patient has consented to what would otherwise be an assault .
14 Cawson defines corporatism as a process ‘ in which organizations representing monopolistic functional interests engage in political exchange with state agencies over public policy outputs which involves those organizations in a role that combines interest representation and policy implementation through delegated self-enforcement ’ ( 1985a , p. 8 ) .
15 He maintains that capitalist enterprises and the modern nation state require a ‘ rational ’ bureaucratic administration which involves large numbers of administrators and clerical staff .
16 Pollarding , which involves repeated cutting of branches at head height , and was originally practised mainly for firewood , is to be reintroduced , along with experimental grazing of ponies , pigs and cattle .
17 Of course , it will remain open to the court to list any appeal which involves important points before a court of three or more judges .
18 Old age generally involves the loss of two crucial social roles , highly regarded by dominant social values , and it is essentially the loss of these valued roles which associates increasing age with diminished social status and prestige , and with disengagement .
19 However the facts are that the courts have not for the last 300 years recognised , nor have they acted upon , a logic which renders all questions of law jurisdictional .
20 In the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) .
21 Yes but why did Hitachi Data Systems Ltd choose the name Osiris for its new mainframe Unix combination ( see front ) : in the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) .
22 The problems raised by this gregarious tendency , and particularly by the recurrence of paired contrasting symbols , become very evident when we consider a bodily product which receives symbolic attention in most human societies and provides extremely expressive symbolic material — hair .
23 The variation in day length decreases with distance from the poles and vanishes at the Equator , which receives 12 hours of light each day throughout the year .
24 Under the terms of the 1947 Constitution legislative authority is vested in a National Assembly which receives legislative proposals from the Legislative Yuan .
25 Under the terms of the 1947 Constitution legislative authority is vested in the Assembly which receives legislative proposals from the Legislative Yuan ( Li-Fa Yuan ) .
26 I was n't exactly selling drugs to teenagers : most of my friends were in the music business in London , and you ca n't find a business which goes more hand in hand with it .
27 The two poems could be thought to occupy a common ground which goes some way beyond topography , and includes a stretch of the common ground occupied by imitation .
28 Which goes some way towards explaining the relative stagnation of the British economy .
29 However , the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them .
30 Other than that last point ( which goes some way towards alienating the Champ 25SE from its natural ally , the Stratocaster ) this is a good , solidly made amplifier , which has had a lot of thought put into its design , is likely to maintain its resale value and deserves examination .
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