Example sentences of "which it [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the harvest , which starts in September and continues for about six weeks , an enormous machine is driven up to the tree trunk , which it locks in a mechanical embrace . |
| 2 | Kawasaki Steel Corp displayed for the first time the Universe FR fault-resilient computer which it sells under a distribution arrangement with Charles River Data Systems , Framingham , Massachusetts . |
| 3 | The mill uses the raw wool to produce cloth which it sells to a coat factory for £21 . |
| 4 | The rufous humming-bird , like the golden-winged sunbird , feeds on nectar , which it takes from a territory of about 60–4000 flowers . |
| 5 | In the memory phase it must be able to hear a normal song ; and in the practice phase it must be able to hear its own initially crude efforts , which it compares with a ‘ template ’ of the memorized perfect song . |
| 6 | That year the Museum began founding bronzes from the unpublished casts , which it keeps at a secret location somewhere in France . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 8 | He reckons that up to 70% of Destiny originally featured in the modularised Unix System V.3 implementation that was developed by Convergent Technology for the ill-fated Unix PC which it manufactured under an OEM agreement for AT&T . |
| 9 | Community education organises two large camps each year for special needs students in addition to class provision which it arranges for a number of specific groups of adults : |
| 10 | The company markets washing machines and dryers which it imports from a medium-sized Italian manufacturer . |
| 11 | Prime Computer Inc 's Framingham , Massachusetts-based PrimeService Inc — soon , as we understand it , to be part of a new quoted company called Computervision Corp — has launched Connection NetWare for Sparc , which it describes as an open architecture version of Novell Inc 's NetWare operating system running under Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunOS version of Unix . |
| 12 | The United Kingdom , the Kingdom of Belgium and the Hellenic Republic argue , however , that the position is different when it comes to the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thinks fit the conditions upon which it grants to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 13 | This minor road runs parallel to the Union Canal which it crosses by a narrow humped back bridge . |
| 14 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 15 | The poem 's language has also advanced from the darkness and dullness in which it began to a more pleasant and brighter world with words like , ‘ white ’ , ‘ light ’ and ‘ elate ’ , bringing forth a totally new mood . |
| 16 | The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony . |
| 17 | Anthropological knowledge can seem , and often is , dangerous and subversive — not because we are good at digging up dirt ( we are ) , nor simply because we document what ‘ actually happens ’ rather than what is supposed to happen , but because our ways of defining situations and problems often raise questions in our minds about the fundamental assumptions on which any institution bases its own definitions , and indeed the assumptions on which it rests as an institution . |
| 18 | Of course , it should be remembered that s3 subjects the terms to which it applies to a test of reasonableness , and where individual terms have been varied for a particular customer ( situation ( a ) ) , or where the terms have been approved by a trade association ( situation ( b ) ) or negotiated between the parties ( situation ( e ) ) they are more likely to satisfy the test of reasonableness . |
| 19 | The steel tape had to be cut with wire-cutters , then soldered , and then it had to be ‘ tempered ’ before it could run through the machine — which it did with a loud clang ! |
| 20 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | One sees that X ( and Y ) alternates between intervals during which it oscillates about a positive level and ones during which it oscillates about a negative level . |
| 22 | One sees that X ( and Y ) alternates between intervals during which it oscillates about a positive level and ones during which it oscillates about a negative level . |
| 23 | One of its objectives was the reform of the London College , which it pursued in a generally persuasive and constructive way . |
| 24 | The heavy door frame caused it some minor difficulty , which it overcame with a swing of its shoulders that tore the timber out and tossed it to one side . |
| 25 | This had a limited circulation : mainly , it seems , through the party for which it acted as a channel of information about policies . |
| 26 | Located in Bilston in the Black Country , Perry Poultry buys oven-ready poultry , which it processes for a prestigious range of customers including Marks & Spencer , Sainsbury 's and Kentucky Fried Chicken ( Perry makes Zingers , Kentucky 's new line of spiced burgers ) . |
| 27 | He restricts himself to an account of the ground forces , so there is no coverage of the role played by the South African air force , for instance , and perhaps the distinction drawn by Britain at the outset of the war between the old Dominions and the members of the new Commonwealth which it regarded as a security risk could have been more strongly emphasized . |
| 28 | These included , for the ANC , police brutality in dealing with unrest ; the government for its part sought a suspension of the ANC 's mass mobilization campaigns , which it regarded as a violation of the ANC 's commitment to suspend the " armed struggle " . |
| 29 | The failure of the North-South Dialogue showed The South that The North — by which they meant the West — did have a coherent distinctiveness : power , financial , technological and military power which it protected with a specialized technological language unintelligible to anyone outside its closed circle except the Brown and Black Sahibs in The South who had been educated and trained in The North . |
| 30 | Univel acknowledged its cuts would impact the Santa Cruz Operation , which it described as a ‘ partner , ’ but explained that its focus was on Microsoft . |