Example sentences of "which [vb base] them [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In this case it is clearer , because of the greater number of possibilities , that the substitutes for table which normalise the sentence ( lit , buffet , journal , balcon , etc. ) have no common semantic properties which distinguish them from items ( such as chaise , bibliothèque , revue , assiette ) which do not remove the oddness :
2 The police are obviously involved also in other activities which bring them into contact with employees and a good relationship with them in these other areas will often be beneficial to reaching a quick and satisfactory solution to all sides when violence does occur ’ .
3 Captive funds — generally subsidiaries of the large UK insurance companies , banks and pension funds , which provide them with capital for investment .
4 So it is with principles identified by evaluation and the techniques which put them into operation .
5 While the interests which ruled the foreign policies of European states might differ , the machinery which put them into effect did not .
6 This was guaranteed by women 's reproductive role , which put them in contact with the great physical and mental powers of the race .
7 It is wholly inappropriate to begin to teach adults to learn how to read by using children 's story books when in reality they will be able to relate more to being able to read those by-laws of the state which prevent them from voting .
8 Economics and Accounting allows those wishing to follow a career as a chartered accountant the opportunity to combine courses which exempt them from part of their professional exams with courses on broader economic questions .
9 Partners have to reach a common understanding of good learning environments and of the conditions which produce them in order that they may jointly promote them .
10 This in turn depends upon economies of scale which enable them to pool and diversify risk .
11 Women and children must be protected from sex offenders and that means imposing heavy prison sentences which do not merely recognise the degree of hurt the offenders have inflicted , but which keep them off Britain 's streets .
12 It has been suggested that these two projects could form a pincer movement to circumscribe the operations of hierarchic managements pursuing the profitability of the enterprises which employ them without regard to the interests of working people , and therefore to reconstruct the impersonal possession of the means of production in the direction of ( socialist ) social appropriation .
13 As black children go through the education system , they not only learn to speak English , they also gain qualifications , which help them with jobs , and acquire British cultural values , which enable them to assimilate .
14 That way you hear other people 's views and can prepare argument and reason which take them into consideration .
15 The reorganization of the Training Commission has already shifted decision-making on post-sixteen training towards non-elected decision-making forums , often with the enthusiastic involvement of colleges which see them as sources of additional funds .
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