Example sentences of "which it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the wizened old woman of ‘ Col Tempo ’ from the Accademia is shown in the same room as Leonardo 's drawings of grotesque heads , to which it bears little resemblance . |
| 2 | Kibbutzim , to which it bears most resemblance , do not ; nor do the traditional Eskimo communities . |
| 3 | The Government 's green paper on the future of the BBC spoke inspiringly of the particular needs and interests of the UK 's constituent nations , which it said any recast structure should reflect . |
| 4 | Current alliances include the agreement under which it manufactures some microprocessors under licence from Intel Corp , its joint venture with Siemens AG and Toshiba Corp on memory chips , and the PowerPC alliance with Motorola Inc , and its less well-defined agreements with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV . |
| 5 | The differences between quotation and paraphrase can be seen in the following contrasting examples : Quotation " One of the most striking things about detective fiction " , Patricia Craig argues in her critical introduction to English detective stories , " is the ease with which it accommodates all kinds of topical ideologies . " |
| 6 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 7 | The terms in which it expressed this decision are to be found in a letter dated 23 October 1991 addressed to the plaintiffs ' solicitors and written by Mr. A. D. Farries , a principal in the Crown Prosecutor Fraud Investigation Group . |
| 8 | Hereforshire Health Authority needs to make savings of six hundred thousand pounds which it overspent this year . |
| 9 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 10 | More generally , the Marre Committee was convinced by the evidence which it received that ignorance was a major cause of people not seeking legal advice when it was appropriate . |
| 11 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 12 | At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control . |
| 13 | The Labour party achieved an overall majority in five elections , on two occasions by slim margins , and formed the government following the February 1974 election , in which it had more seats than any other party but not an absolute majority ( See Table 5.4 ) . |
| 14 | One of the projects by which it sets most store is the Plants Conservation Programme , run jointly with the IUCN . |
| 15 | ‘ But in the meantime , even coughing could break Joanna 's ribs — which it did many times . |
| 16 | In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control . |
| 17 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |