Example sentences of "which it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the projects by which it sets most store is the Plants Conservation Programme , run jointly with the IUCN . |
| 32 | ‘ But in the meantime , even coughing could break Joanna 's ribs — which it did many times . |
| 33 | One of the more striking aspects of the table of results is the way in which it highlights certain configurations of sentences which are almost invariable across all groups . |
| 34 | Far below , in the street opposite the 550 building , stood the tall statue of the Garment Worker , strangely distorted from this angle , and around the plinth on which it stood ant-like figures of vagrants and layabouts sat , oblivious to the cold . |
| 35 | Much of the rest of his life was dedicated to opposing British financial policy and the monetary straitjacket in which it placed British industry . |
| 36 | This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage . |
| 37 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 38 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 39 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 40 | Chatto has been researching the amount of space given by newspapers to its paperback originals , which it introduced last year . |
| 41 | Earlier this year the NRPB published a ‘ complete description of the radiological impact of the fire ’ in which it considered 41 isotopes released in the fire . |
| 42 | In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control . |
| 43 | He surmised that every bird possesses a form of template upon which it tries different notes until it finds the correct ones . |
| 44 | It demonstrates the principle that the EEC 's worst-managed and least successful policies are those in which it has unrestrained jurisdiction . |
| 45 | It is not clear whether the date of composition of The Epistle of Mixed Life precedes or follows Scale 1 with which it has close affinities . |
| 46 | The late Sir Peter Scott was the founder , in 1961 ( WWF is the only one of the Big Three which has British origins ) , and international headquarters are in Gland , Switzerland , in the same building as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ) , with which it has close relations ( and which , in turn , is close to UNEP ) . |
| 47 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |
| 48 | The Court of Justice is composed of thirteen judges and four Advocates Generals , who guard the interpretation and application of the Treaties and EC laws , over which it has final authority . |
| 49 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 50 | Its own frequency plan , which it issued last year , seeks chunks of the spectrum 2.8 M Hz wide , instead of the 2.2 MHz sections it uses at the moment . |
| 51 | Britain had its supporters outside the Six , notably the Nordic states with which it held regular meetings within Uniscan to discuss and coordinate views on European developments and their possible implications . |
| 52 | The EC on Oct. 22 called on Milosevic to use his influence to end ethnic cleansing in Bosnia , for which it held Bosnian Serbs chiefly responsible , and warned that military measures could be taken if the UN flight ban over Bosnia was breached . |
| 53 | And , of course , the state is linked directly to the sphere of production , for which it performs necessary functions , being also an arena within which the class-struggles are fought out . |
| 54 | Iraq demanded on Sept. 26 that Kuwait be expelled from the NAM because it had signed a defence agreement with the United States , a move which it claimed compromised Kuwait 's neutrality . |
| 55 | Given the close link which the Scarman Report established between questions of policing and the ‘ wider social context ’ , the programme of action which it outlined contained proposals not only about the reform of the police and the introduction of new methods of policing and riot control , but about employment policy , social policy , and policies on racial discrimination . |
| 56 | A particular point of contention is likely to arise where a group claims that it was unaware of an intention to hold a march by a group to which it holds opposing views until some time within the notification period . |
| 57 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 58 | The Group 's share of results of associated undertakings [ hereafter called associated companies ] is included in respect of companies in which the Group owns at least 20 per cent of the equity and over which it exerts significant influence . |
| 59 | For one school of modern historians this programme ( to which it attributes transcendent importance in the development of Carlism ) represents a reversion to a traditional monarchy ruling with the historic Cortes and subject to God and the law , a via media between imported liberalism and the equally foreign ministerial despotism of the eighteenth century , a truly Spanish solution of the political problem of modern Spain . ’ |
| 60 | AMERICAN scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognised aspect of the anti-viral effect of interferon , to be added to the already wide range of mechanisms by which it fights viral infections . |