Example sentences of "which [vb base] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Types of racism which do not conform to this model are either ignored , marginalized , or ‘ redescribed ’ in ways which deny their independent significance .
2 These discussions will include representatives from supply and end-user companies which gain their competitive edge from putting advanced information technology into their products .
3 Where previously the hiatus between sections acted as an invitation for the reader to cross-relate them , Pynchon now gives individual captions to episodes which emphasize their local autonomy and which attenuate plot continuity almost out of existence .
4 governing bodies are free to make expenditure decisions which match their own priorities ; and
5 No one , of course , has asked to read it , for — if my argument is correct — the service has no need of any reminder of how the ideology works or how to implement the paradigms which support their cultural norms .
6 The waits were officially disbanded in 1832 but existed as am independent body until the late nineteenth century , by which time their peculiar custom was becoming more than a little irritating to certain residents of the town .
7 This is very much what we are about in developing financial services for our cardmembers which meet their particular requirements and provide added value . ’
8 Furthermore , in his continued discussion of the problem in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego he likens the manic state to festivals such as the Roman Saturnalia , ‘ which owe their cheerful character to the release which they bring ’ .
9 The choice is varied and students may take advantage of tuition in many sports or alternatively may organize their own programme of activities and book the various sports facilities at times which suit their academic timetables .
10 The children of the rich may work in health food shops or other faddish and esoteric pursuits which utilize their educational experience and may provide a more acceptable form of class reproduction than simple inheritance .
11 The Fund 's overseas director Mike Aaronson said on Aug. 29 that there was " a shameful degree of infighting between UN agencies which pursue their own interests " .
12 For instance , he examines the development of dolls from 3000 BC , via the 18th century mechanical automata , through to the possible future delights ( or horrors ) of pornographic robots which entertain their human companions in ways that might well be measured in kilocuddles .
13 The appropriate change in day length causes the animals ' bodies to produce hormones which activate their reproductive organs .
14 Or in the same general category there are institutions like some of those in broadcasting ( in Great Britain the BBC ) which depend on one form or another of public revenue but which direct their own production .
15 But baleen whales ( Mysticeta ) , such as the blue whale and hump back , which use their vast curtains of whalebone to sieve a living from the sea , are very seldom stranded .
16 A In the northern part of the Beaujolais region there are 10 ‘ crus ’ or ‘ villages ’ which use their own names and whose wines show distinct characteristics of their own .
17 The classic example is that of the sterile worker castes in the social insects , which sacrifice their own chances of reproduction in order to rear the offspring of the queen .
18 It was primarily concerned with the control mechanisms in systems and with communication processes which determine their successful operation , and part of its mathematical basis is found in information theory ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) .
19 Nearer to the coast the dykes are lined by fescues which swish their verdant stems and almost purple heads in early summer breezes and turn to a mellow gold and brown in autumn and winter .
20 Horses ' hooves have now been completely replaced on Dublin 's cobbled quays by the steady throb of diesel engines from the familiar road tankers , and from the Lady Patricia and Miranda Guinness , the world 's first beer tanker ships , which carry their liquid cargo from the centre of Dublin to Liverpool for onward shipment along the waterways of the world .
21 Disciplines take a special interest in the world as shaped and reflected in the theories they produce ; theories which constitute their respective phenomena of interest .
22 Companies which exceed their permitted allowance will be liable for fines of $2,000 per excessive tonne .
23 People who become ‘ mentally ill ’ develop psychological problems which affect their emotional moods and behaviour , and the way they communicate with other people .
24 They have achieved much of what they sought concerning changes in documents which affect their everyday lives , so as to accommodate their new life-style .
25 The book shows that heightened social awareness , reliance on people rather than technology , and belief in self rather than ‘ experts ’ or ‘ professionals ’ can enable people to take their own decisions about matters which affect their daily lives .
26 As people increasingly realise that decisions are being made which affect their daily lives , but over which they have little influence , they will demand more say — for themselves and for their elected representatives .
27 As they become unemployed , they find that there are few jobs available in their local area and no jobs at all which require their specialised skills .
28 In the Comstock-Needham system the terminology of the cells is derived from the veins which form their anterior margins .
29 One further dimension to such a system is the possibility of " networking " a number of micros This involves the interconnecting of micros which retain their full power as independent computers but gain the additional ability of communicating with other computers in the network and having access to common files The result is analogous to a minicomputer with a number of terminals but with the big difference that each of the micros has its own processing power instead of sharing that of the mini .
30 In our search for the ideal occupational therapy we have examined motorised objects ( boring , according to the hens ) and water pumps which moisten their dry food ( more fun ) .
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