Example sentences of "which [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nervous controls are not the same as behavioural responses of the kind we have seen in the case of reptiles , which situate themselves at angles to gain the maximum benefit from , or to avoid the worst excesses of , solar radiation . |
2 | The dialectic is the law of totalization which creates several collectivities , several societies , and one history — realities , that is , which impose themselves on individuals ; but at the same time it must be woven out of millions of individual actions . |
3 | In this paper , Peter Watsham describes a range of personnel activities which lend themselves to computer assistance , examines the role of small machines in relation to these , and presents an appraisal of what is currently available . |
4 | There are a number of processes which reproduce themselves through time and which keep poor farmers in perpetual poverty and force them to use their natural environment in non-sustainable ways . |
5 | The various fungal diseases which manifest themselves upon fish are almost exclusively secondary infections , developing on areas of the body which have been damaged in some way . |
6 | In a closed economy ( Figure 9.5 ) the circled banks which find themselves over liquid can lend to or buy money market instruments from the under liquid banks ( uncircled ) . |
7 | From here you can see clearly the frieze of mountains around Lake Titicaca rising steeply from the water and the spits of land which thrust themselves towards Amantani . |
8 | Perhaps surprisingly then , other , less benevolent themes are also found associated with the solar cult , mainly in the form of the collective delusions of persecution which express themselves as belief in witchcraft . |
9 | The first which establish themselves by chance in a particular spot , tend , by the mere occupancy of space , to exclude other species — the greater choke the smaller , the longest livers replace those which last for a shorter period , he more prolific gradually make themselves masters of the ground , which species multiplying more slowly would otherwise fill . |