Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are various types of mutilation : 1 ) Circumcision Proper which involves removing the hood around the clitoris . |
| 2 | There is a bad reason for thinking this , which involves taking the regress as temporal ; before I can justify A , I have to justify B and C , and so on ad infinitum , and thus I can never get started . |
| 3 | The deal , which involves sharing the costs of catering and maintenance at both Zaventem airport in Brussels and Paris , is attractive because it gives access to slots at Brussels airport , seen as a future hub for travel to 70 cities around Europe . |
| 4 | There is , however , one universal habit which involves tightening the neck muscles and this will invariably interfere with the Primary Control and , subsequently , with all the other muscles and reflexes in the body . |
| 5 | Healers use their own crystals to treat other people , and may practise a form of crystal ‘ massage ’ , which involves holding the crystal two inches above the patient and rotating it in small clockwise circles over the entire body surface . |
| 6 | A technique used in some Chinese rugs which involves inserting the pile through a canvas or duck backing with the aid of a " tufting gun " . |
| 7 | Either through work which involves training the imagination ( in the sense of being an ‘ image-making ’ faculty ) or spontaneously , a woman may have an intimation of a female guide , a feminine presence that watches over her life . |
| 8 | We also do some ‘ breeding success ’ work which involves watching the birds from nest-building to fledgling stages and recording how many chicks are produced each year . |
| 9 | Leadership which involves directing the meeting constantly and talking to the group for a majority of the time is unhelpful . |
| 10 | The energy costs of the production process , which involves mixing the oil with ethanol , must also be allowed for when assessing the environmental benefits . |
| 11 | Many people , particularly in the Protestant community , consider that there is a conflict between the Commission 's assumption of a target which involves improving the employment position of Catholics and its duty , as they see it , to be neutral between the Protestant and Catholic communities . |
| 12 | The process of curriculum development which involves devising the material and trying it out . |
| 13 | ‘ the application of tariff principles requires the sentencer to find the sentence which most accurately reflects the offender 's culpability , a process which involves relating the gravity of the offence to the established pattern of sentences for offences of that kind , and then making allowance for such mitigating factors as may be present which tend to reduce the offender 's culpability . |
| 14 | THE Anglo-Swedish consortium bidding for Sea Containers , the Sealink ferries-to-Orient Express group , yesterday raised its hostile offer to $1.036billion ( £659 million ) in a move to scupper James Sherwood 's defence plan which involves selling the Isle of Wight service and the port of Harwich . |
| 15 | Textural analysis , which involves studying the size , shape and proportion of the inclusions , can be useful when the inclusions are not distinctive in other respects . |
| 16 | History of this sort , which offers to explain the relations between properties of societies , has been enormously successful in the past thirty years or so and provides a clear conception of how the underlying interest of holism can guide social enquiry . |
| 17 | He was not as promiscuous as the other classical gods , and actually rejected the lovely NYMPH Clytie who pined for him until her body became a beautiful flower — the heliotrope — which turns to watch the sun 's progress across the sky each day . |
| 18 | One stands naked facing front with her arms raised around her head which turns to face the sea . |
| 19 | Yesterday , US diplomats formally told the UN that they intended to file an explanation of their actions under Article 51 of the UN Charter , which grants states the right to self-defence . |
| 20 | The De Belving manse was more like a palace than a house , having an ostentatious spire at each corner from which flags bearing the family seals declared their status on the wind . |
| 21 | But he has also been careful to repudiate that facile misreading of deconstruction — prevalent among literary critics — which thinks to turn the tables on philosophy by proclaiming that ‘ all concepts are metaphors ’ , or that philosophic truth-claims are really metaphorical through and through . |
| 22 | For a long time we have made it clear that the largest restriction on the growth of the transplant programme is the availability of donated organs , although it is not a restriction which has stopped the programme in its tracks . |
| 23 | The fraudulence of many of the basic policy tools implemented in the inner city immediately raises questions about the nature of either constructive engagement with flawed institutions , as seen in the consultancy work of Ladbury and Mira-Smith in chapter 7 , or about the monitoring role adopted by the Docklands Consultative Committee , which has aided the campaigns of those whose interests the London Docklands Development Corporation has consistently ignored ( see chapter 2 ) . |
| 24 | ANYONE familiar with York can not fail to be impressed by the pedestrianisation scheme which has enhanced the city in recent years . |
| 25 | In the correspondence in our columns which has followed the report on the decline of village life by the Conference of Rural Community Councils , one factor has increasingly been identified as crucial to the ultimate survival of the village as a community . |
| 26 | Since 1966 it has operated a set of rules known as the ‘ stabilizer ’ which has regulated the behaviour of tour operators and travel agents in the inclusive tour industry . |
| 27 | The sudden polarisation of Peruvian politics is the best news yet for Sendero , which has waged the continent 's bloodiest insurgency . |
| 28 | The Chancellor has not responded to the crisis with a monetarist policy , but with a severe interest rate policy , which has halted the housing market and depressed some consumer demands . |
| 29 | His Chair is funded by the Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood Trust ( CLIC ) , and organisation which has supported the University 's work since the beginning of Martin Mott 's research into and care of children with cancers . |
| 30 | Ever since his ship approached this world — the Sense-Sphere — Maitland 's crew have been subjected to telepathic assault , a process which has sent the vessel 's mineralogist quite mad . |