Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sweden , a country which prides itself in the freedom of thought and action which it allows its citizens , education from elementary school to college and university is defined and controlled through state boards . |
| 2 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 3 | One does come across entrepreneurial academics , but there is still something slightly suspect in the academic world about making , as distinct from earning , money which manifests itself in the grey area of consultancy . |
| 4 | All is filtered through Hoving 's glass , which magnifies himself at the expense of his colleagues . |
| 5 | The Melanesian group , stretching in a broken line to the east of the immense and mountainous island of Papua New Guinea , includes the Solomons , Vanuatu and Fiji , each an independent , free-standing state ; but the Australians look after Norfolk Island , and there are French possessions too , in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands , with gendarmes , soldiers from Lyons and Marseilles , and offices of that wondrously-named bureaucracy , the DOM-TOM , which concerns itself with the Déartements Outres-Mer et Territoires Outres-Mer . |
| 6 | There is also a sizeable literature on explaining the size distribution of income which concerns itself with the specific shape this takes ( positively skewed ( right-hand tail ) and leptokurtic ( hump-shaped ) or leptokurtic lognormal ) , both over different time periods and in different countries . |
| 7 | Both are relevant under this heading , which concerns itself with the benefit side of the government budget . |
| 8 | There is little dialectic , then : on the one hand , there are ‘ those who live , in a more or less besieged manner , in a close commonality which divorces itself from the values of the prevailing culture ’ ( ibid : 163 ) ; on the other , those who are ‘ alienated from the possibilities of an immediate life of the unselfconscious body ’ ( ibid : 157 ) . |
| 9 | It is not quite the status of an accredited representative , but at least the door will not be shut in the face of any State which finds itself in the position that we and the Germans did in the early 1970s . |
| 10 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 11 | Of course he belongs to the class which dedicates itself from the beginning , single-mindedly to literature , but yet not in the way we would think of . |
| 12 | Mainframes still garnered the largest portion — 36.7% — of hardware revenues for the company , which bills itself as the open systems supplier , down from 44.8% last time around . |
| 13 | A gay text is one which lends itself to the hypothesis of a gay reading regardless of where the author 's genitals were wont to keep house . |
| 14 | He regrets that ‘ language , which adapts itself for the most part only to the common uses of life , has provided us with no single-worded or immediate designation ’ for the impression . |