Example sentences of "the [noun pl] which [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
| 2 | Signals are thought to have evolved by the gradual modification of the activities which they resemble , as they were performed by the animals ' successive ancestors . |
| 3 | Subject to paragraphs 5 and 6 below , the Funding Council shall have the power — ( a ) to acquire , hold and dispose of land and other property ; ( b ) to enter into contracts , including contracts for the employment of staff for the purposes of the discharge of their functions ; ( c ) to invest any sums not immediately required by the Funding Council for the purpose of their carrying on any of the activities which they have power to carry on ; and ( d ) to accept gifts of money , land or other property and apply it to , or hold or administer it in trust for , the purpose of the discharge of any of their functions . |
| 4 | In my view these characteristics serve only to require the court to be more than ever cautious before concluding that Parliament really intended to exclude one of the immunities which I have listed ; and as I have suggested , the words of the Act of 1987 admit of no doubt . |
| 5 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 6 | Although I joined the company only two and half years ago , the contracts which we had then had a two day , three day price on them . |
| 7 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 8 | When a badger is foraging , especially for the earthworms which it loves , it will stuff its nose into the earth and vegetation and make a noise like a pig rooting . |
| 9 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 10 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 11 | However , the problem at the cognisance level is to describe how a history of activity ( that is , intentional changes in informational content ) results in the conceptions which we have about our mental life . |
| 12 | How typical of the ordinary experience of later life are the accounts which we present here ? |
| 13 | I would go as far as to argue that , however well-intentioned and humanitarian the people who undertake a socialist revolution , the logic of their ideology , which is of necessity reflected in the institutions which they create , makes totalitarianism inevitable . |
| 14 | These are the institutions which we call the manor or the seigneurie . |
| 15 | The Treaty of Rome indeed differs from other international treaties in this important respect : it requires that its provisions , and those made by amendments to it ( such as the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty ) , as well as all the regulations issued by the institutions which it establishes , be incorporated directly into the legal systems of the Member States . |
| 16 | The ANC controls most of the homelands which it wants abolished and returned to South African rule . |
| 17 | But the identity which a region gives — through collective institutions such as its legal , educational and political systems — can not be provided by individuals alone , through the meanings which they attribute to their lifeworlds : ‘ In this respect the regions contain an explicit collective dimension which has relative independence , being continually reproduced by institutionally embedded power relations that influence the socialization of individuals ’ ( p. 139 ) . |
| 18 | ( That is to say , the fit between meanings and perceptions is a matter of social convention , just as much as the historical process by which each language comes to have its own particular set of word forms for the meanings which it uses . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , this would be to empty the term of most of the meanings which it carries in actual discourse . |
| 20 | Palmer subsequently became a member of the council of the Institution and in 1835 was elected one of the vice-presidents ; he was always very attached to the Institution , contributing several interesting papers and seldom failing to take part in the discussions which he considered to be the most valuable part of the meetings . |
| 21 | Whilst Underwood 's somewhat arbitrary classification is now little used , the patterns which he detected , multi-strand lines and spirals , continue to be found by those who in some cases have had little contact with his original work . |
| 22 | In this conclusion I shall not attempt to summarize the richness of the patterns which I have identified in the available data , concerning who does what for whom . |
| 23 | And how long will they not believe in me , in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them ? |
| 24 | Once a child has survived his vulnerable first five years , his expectation of life naturally increases , but this increase will vary in direct proportion to the dangers which he has so far evaded : thus the United Kingdom 5 year old can now expect to live until he is 75 , the American until he is 72 . |
| 25 | It may be significant that Clermont , which was one of the Aquitanian cities consigned to the east Frankish kingdom of Theuderic and his successors , was also one of the cities which he had invested in 507 , in the aftermath of " Vouillé " . |
| 26 | The trouble with all the views which we have looked at is that they tie the notion of autonomy firmly and solely to that of knowledge interpreted in either a broad or narrow sense . |
| 27 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 28 | Otherwise , the views which they have about religion are no more valid or meaningful in themselves than those , for example , of a beginner mathematician on advanced calculus about which he/she knows nothing . |
| 29 | It is said that the views which I expressed in my judgments in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 and In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 26 which are relevant to this were obiter and did not receive the express assent of those sitting with me . |
| 30 | Even more important , could he afford the debts which he had contracted ? |