Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He was elected Right Hand Man to the Duns Reiver which involves taking part in Border festivals as far afield as Langholm , and Lanark .
2 Early feedback from bankers at the 90-minute City meeting is that the plan , which involves splitting debt into two categories , was ‘ greeted respectfully ’ .
3 At worst , they will be a cumbersome and bureaucratic nightmare which involves sending patients to distant , low-priced hospitals .
4 Three more people have been prepared for the surgery , which involves implanting electrodes into the inner ear .
5 The strategy ( Huggett , 1980 ) involved four phases identified as the lexical phase which necessitates identification of system components ; the parsing phase which involves establishing relationships between system components ; the modelling phase which requires expression of relationships in the context of a model and then calibrating the model ; and the analysis phase in which there is an attempt to solve the system model and if not successful the procedure is repeated with a modified model .
6 Obviously an approach which involves regulating emissions from millions of stationary and mobile pollution sources which have varying characteristics , locations and use patterns is not simple and the strategy produces a complex set of control regulations .
7 Dittany when dried is greyer than malotira , although the leaves are similarly furry like so much of the vegetation , which needs to conserve moisture in the hot atmosphere , and the tea made from it has a muskier , more soothing quality .
8 This is particularly important for the region from 2400 to 1600 cm - , which covers stretching modes of many multiple bonds including those of CO ligands in metal carbonyls .
9 The county council has since planted trees on that piece of land which has stopped gipsies from camping there but led to them using the verge instead .
10 In the case of the Stommeln Synagogue , located in Pulheim-Stommeln in the extreme west of Cologne , an unusual exhibition venue has been created which has excited attention with its sensitive presentation of single works by Jannis Kounellis and Richard Serra .
11 The German mining company Uranerz operates the Key Lake uranium mine in Saskatchewan , believed to be the world 's largest , which has provoked expressions of concern from local Dene and Cree people , who fear possible radioactive contamination of their land .
12 He suggests that the new forests are the " missing carbon sink " which has puzzled scientists for some years .
13 As several writers have noted , the recent preoccupation in the managerial literature with social power has led to the neglect of structural power which determines so much of our behaviour at work and which has interested sociologists for more than 100 years .
14 We know all about that , ’ said Mr Heath , referring to the headquarters of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre , which has collected evidence of Nazi war criminals .
15 Austin , Texas-based , Tivoli Systems Inc has appointed Chris Grafft as vice president of Unix development : the distributed management software company , which has collected $6m in venture money so far , is thinking of going out for a ‘ few million ’ more in a third round .
16 In the north of Bucharest , there is a fascinating village-museum , started in the 1930s , which has collected examples of the extraordinary variety of styles of peasant architecture found in Romania .
17 The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’
18 Such acts come as no surprise from a Government which has implemented measure after measure in a similar vein since 1979 .
19 The concept of mixed race , which has become part of conventional social work language , is misleading because it causes confusion in the minds of transracial adopters .
20 To meet such objections Ross developed a very useful concept which has become part of the regular stock in trade of moral philosophers , the concept of a prima facie duty .
21 The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood .
22 The response was to start an unbeaten run of 19 games which has swept Wigan to the verge of a third consecutive double or , as John Monie , their coach , put it , ‘ halfway towards another successful season ’ .
23 ( Note that " recreolisation " can also mean the development of a new Creole language from an existing one which has undergone pidginisation for a second time .
24 Cocaine , which has replaced heroin as the drug of concern in America , and has thus been extensively researched , works on nerves that use the neurotransmitter dopamine .
25 The proceeds of any sale would also remove another concern which has influenced attitudes towards Cable & Wireless .
26 Taking a counter-example , the success of a project reported by Veblen ( 1978 ) for an area in western Guatemala was attributed to the institution of communal forest holdings , or ejido , which has favoured preservation of the forests of Totonicapan .
27 Looking back , this extraordinary sequence of events carries all the hallmarks of the institutional deception which has fuelled mistrust of the nuclear industry .
28 She urges the excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age and animated sometimes the housebreaker and sometimes the conqueror . ’
29 The trust , which has lost £153,000 on the project , has restored about 200 properties and was prominent in preserving Pell Well Hall in Shropshire and the 12th century Siddington Barn near Cirencester , Glos .
30 The trust , which has lost £153,000 on the project , has restored about 200 properties and was prominent in preserving Pell Well Hall in Shropshire and the 12th century Siddington Barn near Cirencester , Glos .
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