Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A law which declines to distinguish between the two situations is surely to be preferred . |
| 2 | One of the most obvious ways of telling a story which has to arise from the fact of a mysterious murder is to have your reader watch your detective conducting interviews with each of the suspects in turn . |
| 3 | This aspect has a bearing on two further components , social cohesion , which has to do with the sense of community and national identity , and what Heater has called civic virtue . |
| 4 | The impression given is of some sticky , viscous , unpleasant material which has to do with the satisfaction of obscure and uncontrollable personal needs . |
| 5 | The fully battened mainsail is loose-footed and stands a bold roach which has to brush past the backstay during a tack . |
| 6 | Opponents in Parliament , which has to vote on the measure , vowed to fight it tooth and nail . |
| 7 | We have just heard from the hon. Gentleman that all our proposals for discounts for single people and alleviation of the top rates of the tax are anathema to the Labour party , which wants to return to the full rigours of the rates . |
| 8 | Their research is published by Approach ( Association to Protect All Children ) , which wants to extend to the home the ban in schools on physical punishment . |
| 9 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 10 | If we are carrying out the valuation of a private company which intends to float in the foreseeable future it should be borne in mind that the flotation will make the shares marketable . |
| 11 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 12 | It was suggested in the last chapter that analysis which tends to deal with the nature of modernity itself is always in danger of leading to assumptions concerning the superiority of certain ‘ advanced ’ peoples over others , which are in effect a version of primitivism . |
| 13 | Immediately after discharge from hospital most patients have a recurrence of the anxiety which is a prominent feature of the early days after the attack and which tends to lessen towards the end of the hospital stay . |
| 14 | Language in its significant sense is that vocal gesture which tends to arouse in the individual the attitude which it arouses in others , and it is this perfecting of the self by the gesture which mediates the social activities that gives rise to the process of taking the role of the other . |
| 15 | You should take special care if you are fair-haired or have a skin which tends to burn in the sun . |
| 16 | This is not only extremely difficult to do , she says , but unnecessary , as fat which is concentrated around these areas is less of a health risk than fat which tends to concentrate around the middle . |
| 17 | And yet , at the same time , central government has imposed the National Curriculum on the education system which seems to move in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | We seem to have lost the distinction between the second and third , which seems to depend on the existence of an identifiable artefact in the latter case . |
| 19 | The assumption which seems to prevail in the literature on conduct disorder is that certain disordered personality characteristics are formed which tend to continue , although the data on continuities in adverse social conditions which would confirm this assumption is by and large absent . |
| 20 | Certainly previous experience shapes present and future conduct but the good teacher or the good manager will not be contented simply with repeating what he or she has already been through without questioning the constraints of the organization which seems to stand in the way . |
| 21 | Then carefully go through your list , item by item , noting any idea which seems to leap off the page , makes you tingle or glow , or releases energy somewhere in your body . |
| 22 | It is certainly a tough lesson , but one which seems to work as the scoring averages are improving season by season on the Tour . |
| 23 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 24 | Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove . |
| 25 | Indeed , this predisposition has been reinforced in the Japanese case by the unusual degree of social uniformity which appears to stem from the homogeneity of the people and their customs . |
| 26 | A. vole premaxilla showing breakage of incisors ( ×15 ) ; B. sutural separation between premaxilla and maxilla ( ×15 ) ; C. occlusal cracking of vole molars ( ×15 ) ; D. enlargement of cracking , which appears to start in the dentine and then causes separation of the inner enamel surface ( ×75 ) ; E. slight chipping of enamel edge ( ×225 ) ; F. longitudinal splitting of incisor enamel ( ×15 ) ; G. slight modification of enamel surface of the incisor enamel ( same specimen as F. ) ( ×75 ) ; H. enlargement of enamel modification , showing it to be caused by splitting and flaking rather than etching ( ×375 ) ; I. femur head showing slight cracking ( ×26 ) ; J. enlargement of cracking ( ×75 ) ; K. splitting and cracking of tibia shaft ( ×38 ) ; L. enlargement of tibia ( ×75 ) ; M. splitting and depression of immature long bone shaft ( 15 ) ; N. enlargement of same ( ×60 ) . |
| 27 | Numerous purges in the regions were designed to root out less than committed fascists , which helps to account for the high turnover of membership in the 1930s ; A.K. Chesterton in particular was notorious for the war he waged against literal social fascists , being responsible for expelling over 300 members in Stoke in 1935 who used the local headquarters as a drinking club . |
| 28 | The head holds the nucleus and is partly covered by a cap which probably contains a substance which helps to break down the wall of the ovum . |
| 29 | Treatment is free , but the Haematology Research Fund at Pembury , which helps to pay for the Clinic 's work in immunotherapy , is happy to accept contributions . |
| 30 | The names and addresses of senior judges in the Irish Republic , together with a document which purports to come from the office of the Chief of Staff of the Irish Army , surfaced yesterday as the latest in the series of security leaks , writes David McKittrick . |