Example sentences of "which it [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the wizened old woman of ‘ Col Tempo ’ from the Accademia is shown in the same room as Leonardo 's drawings of grotesque heads , to which it bears little resemblance . |
| 2 | Kibbutzim , to which it bears most resemblance , do not ; nor do the traditional Eskimo communities . |
| 3 | BA has invested £20m of its own money in the venture , of which it owns 31 p.c. , but says that further finance will come from Air Russia 's own resources , such as state loans and leasing . |
| 4 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 5 | The lineage of Unix System V Release comes from the SVR4.1 Enhanced Security release , from which it inherits B1/B2 security , but SVR4.2 extends the modularity of that release with the isolation of processor-specific source code modules from the main body of common code . |
| 6 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 7 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 8 | One of the projects by which it sets most store is the Plants Conservation Programme , run jointly with the IUCN . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It demonstrates the principle that the EEC 's worst-managed and least successful policies are those in which it has unrestrained jurisdiction . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |