Example sentences of "which [vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
| 2 | This has important implications for current trends in thinking about the role of the family ( and the extended family ) in the occupational system of advanced societies and for certain feminist approaches to the issues of women in the labour market which tend to operate from an essentially middle class paradigm of the individualized career and salary and the consequent marginalization of women in the domestic context . |
| 3 | Darley Anderson has sold television rights to Martina Cole 's bestselling Dangerous Lady ( which Headline bought in a two-book deal for £150,000 ) . |
| 4 | It is your responsibility and yours alone to choose which voice to listen to , which voice to accept as a guide throughout your daily life . |
| 5 | This was the cause of his deafness , which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics . |
| 6 | You therefore get an increasing tangle of bureaucratic instructions which seek to legislate for an endless series of unlikely events which have occurred at some time in the organization 's past . |
| 7 | Bury ( 1988 ) provides some interesting ideas about how the debate can be moved forward by designing research projects which examine ageing from a longitudinal perspective . |
| 8 | They were both hugging me and I was crying the kind of tears which seem to come from a part of you which you never knew you had . |
| 9 | Marxists have discovered the state to be relatively autonomous and classes to be composed of ‘ class fractions ’ which seem to interact in a manner curiously reminiscent of the pluralist account . |
| 10 | I shall start by considering in section 4.3 some variables which are characteristic of Belfast English , but which seem to function at a somewhat higher level of generality than those that we have mentioned so far — as identity markers for the community as a whole rather than for internal differentiation within it . |
| 11 | The third aspect of Part II is that section 10 now makes it an offence for a trader to supply consumer goods which fail to comply with a general safety requirement . |
| 12 | It can only publicise those accommodation places which are ‘ eligible ’ under the English Tourist Board scheme ( ie. which agree to abide by a code of conduct ) and these must be given equal treatment . |
| 13 | Therefore , we now need to examine the explanatory factors which help determine on an inter-country basis each of the three major types of bargaining structure which have been identified . |
| 14 | He is certainly concerned with the inequalities , injustices and inequities in the world as a whole and the UK in particular ; with the greed , short-sightedness and self-interest of some of its inhabitants ; and with the inadequacy , incompetence and inefficiency of the institutions which relate to land as a primary resource . |
| 15 | Tostada shells may be served with this soup ; they are flat fried tortilla pancakes which require heating in a moderate oven for a few minutes before serving . |
| 16 | Pundits are unanimous that recovery has arrived , but the string of statistics which have pointed to a vigorous upturn in the early part of the year have been greeted with caution . |
| 17 | On a broader front , even the popular movements are only now beginning to raise issues connected with gender and women 's rights despite the long-standing existence of women 's groups which have campaigned on a variety of anti-apartheid issues . |
| 18 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 19 | The proposals fall short of demands made by Scottish Natural Heritage and environment groups , which have called for a ban on tanker traffic in the Fair Isle Straits . |
| 20 | Business failures , which have rocketed to a staggering 76 a day , should also decline . |
| 21 | They were quick to spot the first ripples of concern which have surged into a tide over the past year . |
| 22 | Some countries , such as Mexico and Chile , have gone through periods of quite radical change , only to be followed by changing political conditions , which have led to a reversal of policy . |
| 23 | These grants have encouraged changes in hill farming which have led to a loss of semi-natural vegetation , traditional farm woodland and field boundaries , and have been offset by increases in commercial forestry , and cultivated crops and grass . |
| 24 | The data examined in this study give a consistent picture of behaviour changes among homosexual men which have led to a continuance of HIV transmission in this group in England and Wales . |
| 25 | Studies of aid projects have tended to focus on the results of such projects and have lacked detailed analysis of what preceded the projects or the political and bureaucratic factors which have led to a project being implemented or abandoned . |
| 26 | It is the high stakes , no doubt , allied to the frustration of failing to achieve personal ambitions , which have led to a number of outbreaks this season on the professional Tours . |
| 27 | The demographic developments which have led to an ageing population in Britain are characteristic of all developed nations , with a trend towards lower birth rates and reduced mortality at all ages . |
| 28 | On the one hand , it has been interpreted as indicating a revival of entrepreneurial vigour with new firms being formed either on the basis of new technologies or else in order to exploit market opportunities which have emerged as a result of the recession . |
| 29 | Unfortunately for the interesting diversity of the old breeds , the Scandinavian nations have in recent years developed official breeding policies designed to create uniform national breeds by amalgamation , with the result that other breeds have largely been replaced and are now almost extinct , often making way for most untypical horned , pied breeds which have relied to a greater or lesser extent on imported Ayrshires and Friesians . |
| 30 | Although total revenues generated in the first-class game increased in actual terms , by seven and a half per cent , to the £24.5 million mark , the inexorable rise in costs has taken over £1 million out of the combined surpluses of the counties , which have descended to a dangerously low level of just under |