Example sentences of "which [vb base] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. Farmers in the valleys and on the edges of Dartmoor and Exmoor concentrate more on rearing young cattle , sheep and lambs , which graze on the rough moorland pasture . |
| 2 | Bird pollinators include unspecialized nectar eaters , which opportunistically visit many different kinds of flower , generally small ones , and specialized nectar eaters , which concentrate on a few kinds of flower , mainly larger ones . |
| 3 | In the case of Gagnon and Simon and those influenced by them ( such as Kenneth Plummer ) , the theoretical framework derives from Meadean social psychology , which sees the individual as having a developing personality which is created in an interaction with others ; and from labelling theories of deviance , which concentrate on the public processes of stigmatisation . |
| 4 | These flowers are visited by larger bees such as species of Xylocopa , which land on the hood-like ligule and forage underneath it for pollen . |
| 5 | Locomotion is effected by undulating waves of muscle contraction and relaxation which alternate on the dorsal and ventral aspects of the worm . |
| 6 | First , those firms with in-house architects , which insist on a standard formula without consideration of local conditions . |
| 7 | Irrigation is necessary to sustain the crops which grow on the fertile , loess-covered lowlands of one of Europe 's richest grain-growing regions . |
| 8 | Methods which make use of a combination of sensory inputs are likely to be more effective than those which relay on a single channel of communication . |
| 9 | Having realised that conservation is always likely to fall victim to local poverty , great efforts are being made to set up small-scale sustainable industries which depend on the long-term well-being of the rainforest and other natural ecosystems . |
| 10 | Among the more common methods are those which depend on the colligative properties of dilute solutions . |
| 11 | Next are the ‘ productive relations ’ of an economy , namely the relationship between people as evidenced in the institution of property and the relationships of class which depend on the productive forces . |
| 12 | Consequently , syllabuses and teachers ' guides which depend on the full official time allocation for their completion , and many do , are doomed to failure , whereas a shorter and more manageable core , with optional and enrichment materials for better endowed schools and better teachers would ensure that minimum content was taught . |
| 13 | In his study of the problems of implementing the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales , Richards describes the various means that ‘ exist to facilitate county/district co-operation , some of which depend on the 1972 Act and some of which do not ’ ( Richards 1975b:76 ) . |
| 14 | We studied the operations required by those dominant data-types which act on a complete word : fixed and floating-point binary arithmetic , and logical values . |
| 15 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 16 | In the past year the CGR has developed a number of new applications of transgenic and genome technology which focus on a small number of areas of interest . |
| 17 | The more micro-based studies , which focus on a particular expenditure programme or transfer policy , often offer a more tractable research problem , but these are inevitably open to the criticism that they are very partial in nature , giving no real insight into whether government intervention is narrowing or widening the extent of overall economic inequality ( assuming we can agree how to measure it ! ) . |
| 18 | Referring principally to those techniques of soil conservation developed by research stations and government institutions , many studies of the economics of soil conservation which focus on the private economic incentives for soil conservation , show that , although total benefits from a soil conservation scheme such as terracing may be more than the total cost , individual farmers usually lose income from these practices ( Harshbarger & Swanson 1964 , Holtman & Connor 1974 ) . |
| 19 | Blaise Pascal , of Pascal 's triangle , extended the theorem to : If a hexagon is inscribed in a circle , the pairs of opposite sides intersect , respectively , in three points which lie on a straight line . |
| 20 | Yet , as in Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock , the fallen Catholic is in the end somehow right , and the virtuous atheist less so , for if Gael 's concept of the soul represents a higher spiritual plane and poetic vision , it also is coupled with neurosis , prescience , and telepathic powers which verge on the absurd . |
| 21 | It was not until she came across a book by Sylvia Crowe , who pointed out how often the English countryside is spoilt by gardens blazing in colour which intrude on the natural backdrop , that she realised her mistake . |
| 22 | Supermarkets and stores which open on the seventh day are doing a roaring trade . |
| 23 | Thus progression means not so much going from before to after , as from the more immediate to the more remote circumstances which impinge on the central character 's consciousness . |
| 24 | Theoretical studies and laboratory experiments have indicated that lunar dust could be mobilized by electrical forces which on the Moon could arise from electrically charged particles which impinge on the lunar surface . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The fruit of the yew is important in the autumn and winter for mistle thrushes , redwings and fieldfares , which feed on the soft flesh , while greenfinches and bullfinches feed on the hard kernel . |
| 27 | The Commission have more recently proposed a Directive on establishing European works councils that provides for informing and consulting employees within certain sized undertakings which operate on a Community-wide scale [ see pp. 45–6 ] . |
| 28 | Over the past few years , many companies have set up contracted-out money purchase schemes — or COMPS , as they are known for short — which operate on a different principle from final salary schemes . |
| 29 | Nevertheless teaching methods which make use of a combination of sensory inputs are likely to be more effective than those which rely on a single channel of communication . |
| 30 | Some fungi are essential for young saplings , which rely on the fungal nutrients as they establish themselves . |