Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Play-pens are now having to be made to a new British Standard , which involves using a simulated ‘ bite ’ test . |
| 2 | Hauser and Ernst ( 1979 , 1980 ) developed a method which involves solving a homogeneous Hilbert problem . |
| 3 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 4 | The elections were contested by 15 parties , four of which failed to win a single seat ( Kaset Seri , Ruam Palang Mai , United Democratic Party and Thong Tin Kao Na ( Rural Progressive ) ) . |
| 5 | Firstly , despite the functionalist tendencies already mentioned , The History of Sexuality does offer an alternative view of seeing the relationship between sexuality and wider social forces to the traditional functionalism of many ( particularly ) left interpretations , which tend to see a direct relationship between the nuclear family and organisation of sexuality , either in the interests of capitalism or as directly responsive to the urges of ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 6 | These are generally either thermal or electrostatic units which tend to offer a cheaper solution than buying an interface and a good quality matrix printer but the results obtained tend to be less professional . |
| 7 | The ECM being essentially free and unregulated is governed by the principles of competition while most domestic money markets have been riddled with monopolistic elements and restrictive practices , e.g. credit ( loan ) allocation rules , which sought to secure a privileged position for certain vested parties such as government borrowers and domestic banks . |
| 8 | The teaching methods in the full-time courses were centred upon projects which sought to provide a simulated work situation , to integrate what might otherwise appear to be disparate subject areas and to engender in the student independence and originality of thought . |
| 9 | Now two High Court judges have refused to be cowed by the high-handed attitude and pressures of a Government which sought to impose a devastating pit-closure programme without following the proper legal procedures . |
| 10 | In the Dinantian rocks which appear to form a major part of the leading Variscan thrust slice , the source potential of the limestones and dolomites ( which represent shallow water facies ) is assumed on the whole to be relatively low . |
| 11 | These findings raise the possibility that the results with deep dyslexics , which appear to show a facilitating effect of highly imageable words on reading performance , might just as plausibly be attributed to the fact that such words tend to be learned at an early age in life . |
| 12 | An example of one category of UFO , which some researchers have pinpointed , is of objects with an ovoid shape from 1 to 3 metres in diameter , which rotate on a vertical axis , close to the ground , and which appear to emit a wide range of electromagnetic radiation . |
| 13 | One of the important lessons I think to learn is that the choice of course , which tends sometimes in situations of high demand to be too related to supposed vocational use , so we notice for example that there is increasing demand for courses which appear to have a vocational content , can sometimes lead to disadvantage . |
| 14 | So , yes there is ‘ bad ’ cholesterol , the LDL which are associated with a greater risk of heart disease , and ‘ good ’ cholesterol , the HDL which appear to have a protective effect . |
| 15 | Most CABx can identify local groups which appear to have a particular need for assistance , and NACAB policy is to encourage bureaux to cater for such special groups . |
| 16 | After an appeal from the Constitutional Court that President and legislature settle their differences , Yeltsin and Khasbulatov reached a compromise which involved holding a constitutional referendum on April 11 , 1993 , and freezing all constitutional amendments adopted at the Congress . |
| 17 | The original method of producing acrylic sheet , which involved casting a thickened and part-polymerized methyl methacrylate syrup in plate glass cells and completing polymerization by heating in an oven , was devised in the 1930s . |
| 18 | The plan , which involved charging a flat-rate tax per kilo , represented an attempt to reduce the amount of waste dumped in landfill sites . |
| 19 | To do this the study will analyse data from a project undertaken by the Policy Planning Research Unit of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland which has followed a random sample of some 3,000 young people eligible to leave school in Northern ireland in 1984 and who have been re- interviewed annually until 1987 . |
| 20 | Mr Clark insisted he was completely innocent in the affair , which has provoked a political storm , engulfing even the Prime Minister in allegations that the Government had encouraged firms to breach the arms embargo . |
| 21 | One important theoretical characteristic of logogens which has stimulated a great deal of experimentation is that they mediate priming effects in word recognition , i.e. the faster recognition of a word following previous recent exposure to that word . |
| 22 | The telephone network is now under the control and direction of British Telecom which has become a privatized monopoly . |
| 23 | ‘ How shall the crimes that have their direct source in the immoral motion pictures be measured ? ’ he asked , before declaring , ‘ Catholics are called by God , the pope , the Bishops and the priests to a united and vigorous campaign for the purification of the cinema , which has become a deadly menace to morals . ’ |
| 24 | Some trajectories wander forever near the strange invariant set which has become a strange attractor . |
| 25 | Each work extends the ‘ augury ’ of Finnegans Wake : each work is a postmodernist paradigm , a prophecy of the self-reflexive foregrounding of language and fiction-making which has become a central , distinguishing characteristic of postmodernism . |
| 26 | Dr Ed Dart , director of research at ICI Seeds , which has become a major international organisation since it started in 1985 , plays these down . |
| 27 | In addition , there is fanaticism and lack of religious tolerance , which has become a major human rights problem in many parts of the world . |
| 28 | A second team is currently working at Moscow airport , which has become a major transit point for people without proper documents . |
| 29 | Forms will be available shortly for the Hale 5 road race on December 20 , which has become a popular pre-Christmas outing for runners , serious and not so serious . |
| 30 | To an extent , the anger is to be expected from a newspaper which has become a strident mouthpiece of conservative elements in the Kremlin leadership . |