Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb -s] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision problem in which I receives and II receives - , if I plays i and II plays j , is called a two-person zero-sum game ( ZSG — ‘ zero sum ’ because the sum of the receipts of the two players is zero ) . |
| 2 | Mr Brown said : ‘ I am demanding that the Chancellor publish the letter circulating from the Treasury which itself demands that civil servants plan for 2.5 per cent and 5 per cent cuts in their budgets . |
| 3 | And indeed , as Daly sees women as having become ‘ mutants ’ or ‘ fembots ’ , so Millett sees them as not having been allowed to participate in fully ‘ human ’ activities ( which she characterises as those that are most remote from the biological contingencies of life ) , and Frye sees them as simply ‘ broken ’ and then ‘ remade ’ in the way that suits their masters . |
| 4 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 5 | With regard to Audrey it is difficult to identify the goals to which she aspires since these are rarely explicitly referred to , and she appears less often . |
| 6 | The idea of the Umwelt has re-emerged in ethology in Griffin 's book The question of animal awareness ( 1976 ) , in which he argues that recent research in animal orientation , navigation , and social communication implies cognitive processes of a high order and even mental experiences of them . |
| 7 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 8 | If this is so , there is considerable point to Beverley Halstead 's letter to Nature in which he argues that academic publication of the research results should be a requirement before the award of a Ph D , ( as is the case in some countries and institutions ) . |
| 9 | The Home Secretary , in fixing the period which he regards as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence , not infrequently exceeds the judicial view . |
| 10 | Poulantzas thus constructs what appears at first to be a morass of categories in continual flux ; but he then extracts from it a pattern of relations which he regards as constant . |
| 11 | Viktor Korovin , who was elected director of Uralmash by its workforce last summer , says that its ‘ financial situation is very complicated ’ , by which he means that few of the company 's heavy-industrial clients can afford to pay for the machinery that has been delivered to them . |
| 12 | We can witness all these in Worsley 's book in which he demonstrates that architectural draughtsmanship reached a point of perfection by 1837 , after which it degenerated into mere technical proficiency , when even bodies such as the Institute of British Architects condemned the use of colour and supplementary foreground activities that had previously made competition perspectives more attractive . |
| 13 | Finally , he is drawn to the essence of Muir 's genius which he sees as that of ‘ the sensibility of the remote islander ’ , and the words that follow give one final transformation of the savage and city motif , when he describes Muir as ‘ the boy from a simple primitive offshore community who then was plunged into the sordid horror of industrialism in Glasgow , who struggled to understand the modern world of the metropolis in London … |
| 14 | As part of a valuation exercise we assemble detailed information on the business and its characteristics , its past and current financial performance , the sector in which it operates and economic factors which affect it . |
| 15 | However , the scheme only binds the company to which it relates and any financial assistance required from the target 's subsidiaries , for instance , will have to be dealt with by the private company exemption method . |
| 16 | I also know how to get the red-tailed buzzard out of a tree at night , so if it flies off I stay by the tree in which it settles until dark , then I go and fetch sticks and a torch so that I can see what I 'm doing . |
| 17 | The NSA has a huge operation in Britain which it regards as one of its most important listening posts , being strategically placed to eavesdrop not only on East Europe but West Europe as well . |
| 18 | Since reading aloud primes subsequent tachistoscopic recognition , the semantic system ( if it is indeed the locus of priming effects ) must be playing a part in tachistoscopic recognition ; from which it follows that prior use of that system in responding to a definition should also prime tachistoscopic recognition . |
| 19 | Thus for Schrödinger 's cat there is one world in which it lives and another world in which it dies . |
| 20 | Now the Law Commission has issued a working paper entitled ‘ Contributory Negligence as a Defence in Contract ’ in which it recommends that contributory negligence should be available as a defence to all breaches of contractual obligations . |