Example sentences of "which it [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At this point , the weapon 's guidance system switches into a preprogrammed routine in which it selects data about the particular target that it is aiming for .
2 For example , Kaelin 's ( 1968 ) notion of ‘ surface ’ and ‘ depth ’ counters is particularly relevant for the way in which it separates aspects of a direct sensory , perceptual nature from those referring to imaginative content , based upon observations of a cognitive or conceptual kind .
3 In doing so it also extended and sharpened the tools by which it assured standards across the growing territory of higher education , but at the same time it struggled with the problem of those institutions which increasingly felt that they had served a long enough apprenticeship .
4 And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly .
5 Battalions , Northumberland Fusiliers and the actions in which it took part during the 1914–18 War .
6 Where the English Law Society is introducing measures to ‘ alert the profession to the gravity with which it considers matters of discrimination , ’ its Scottish counterpart recently observed that ‘ guidance or rules ( on discrimination ) for the legal profession are not necessary . ’
7 What made this trade especially useful was the small extent to which it depended on re-exports and the very great extent to which it brought markets for English manufacturers , especially in woollen and worsted textiles of the lighter and cheaper kinds .
8 In essence , a new unincorporated business will pay tax in the tax year in which its first accounting period ends ( rather than the year in which it commences trade under the present system ) , but will pay tax on at least a full year 's profit in the tax year in which it ceases to trade .
9 We may extend this metaphor further by suggesting that our everyday experience of stress is rather like a tap which is placed over the glass and into which it drips drops of stress .
10 Answers to these and other questions should allow us to develop a more accurate picture of the impact of tax on people 's earnings and hence the extent to which it redistributes income within Britain .
11 At the outset of the meeting , the Bank put forward its proposals in relation to Job Security and highlighted the main areas in which it sought agreement with the Association .
12 Will he re-examine the system and the way in which it affects people on the lower Clyde ?
13 The collection of essays edited by Joyce ( 1987 ) is an important contribution to the history of work , not only for the satisfying ways in which it challenges orthodoxy about the social and political role of work , but also for its advocacy of the need to rethink work as a social construct .
14 The Inland Revenue has reviewed the arrangements under which it issues booklets of payslips spanning two deduction years to employers and has decided to revert to supplying employers with booklets containing payslips which relate to one deduction year ( p 103 ) .
15 The Inland Revenue has reviewed the arrangements under which it issues booklets of payslips spanning two deduction years to employers , a considerable number of whom had complained .
16 The bacterium , however , does not penetrate the gastric epithelium and the mechanism by which it induces inflammation of the underlying mucosa is unknown .
17 People are not only responsible for something , they are responsible to God , other individuals , society or themselves , and this latter Kantian notion is derived from the primary social context in which it makes sense for the concept of responsibility to be invoked .
18 The JUSTICE report , A Proposal for a Suitors ' Fund , advocates a more radical reform by suggesting that public funds should be used to indemnify litigants against ‘ faults in the system ’ amongst which it included appeals on fact or law .
19 On Dec. 25 the EC published a communiqué in which it considered Russia to be " exercising the rights and international obligations of the former Soviet Union " .
20 Each particular religion is marked off from others in two ways — outwardly , by its origins and history , and inwardly , by the particular way in which it gives expression to the essential religious consciousness .
21 Fujitsu Ltd has a new version of MicroCadam running on its SuperSparc Fujitsu S family machines which it buys OEM from Sun Microsystems Inc .
22 There is , however , separate evidence which shows that the Jovian interior is indeed hot , namely , that Jupiter radiates energy to space at a greater rate than that at which it absorbs energy from the Sun .
23 It is clear that Jupiter radiates energy to space at a rate somewhere between 1½ and 2½ times the rate at which it absorbs energy from the Sun .
24 On 11 February the monarchist ABC weighed in with a leader entitled " Patriotic alert " , in which it claimed solidarity with " the Falangist faith " and issued dire warnings against the " hidden hand " which lay behind the 9 February disturbance , by which was meant socialism and communism .
25 6.2 Each centre has received a proforma showing the courses for which it presented candidates in session 1988–89 .
26 This — masked in various ways — is at the root of a good many problems which demand attention from social workers and all too often the manner in which it develops runs along sexual lines , especially with girls .
27 Last night the organisation issued a statement in which it vowed attacks on jail staff would continue until the current dispute in the Maze prison is resolved .
28 Newmill-1 followed in 1971 and reached 6500 ft in the Lower Permian Sandstone , near the top of which it encountered traces of gas ; further traces were found in the Sherwood Sandstone .
29 This catalogue of divisions , the ‘ erosion of cohesion and unity ’ and the questioning of society which it gave rise to were now important features of the British scene .
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