Example sentences of "which [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headache from suppressed nasal discharge , when a chronic , thick , yellow discharge is replaced by an acute , watery coryza with sneezing , then comes a headache which subsides when the thick , yellow discharge returns . |
| 2 | Agnes Smedley 's heroine , Marie , talks about having to shut her mother out , shut off from her , in order to protect herself against her mother 's extraordinary cruelty — while Adrienne Rich works on the feeling of severance , of being deprived of her mother in a culture which insists that the daughters turn away from the mother toward the father . |
| 3 | However , its closure , ordered under new legislation which insists that the best available technology be used to combat pollution , may set a precedent for hundreds of other incinerators across the country . |
| 4 | It is this covenant which ordains that the Christian Maronites hold the presidency , the leadership of the army and the head of the judiciary while Sunni Muslims provide the prime minister and Shia Muslims the speaker of the Lebanese parliament . |
| 5 | Their insecurities were doubtless increased through reading theological works such as William Perkins ' Whether a Man , published in 1589 , which argued that a reprobate might attain temporary faith and ‘ seem both unto himself and to the Church of God to be a true professor of the Gospel , and yet indeed be none ’ . |
| 6 | These arrangements for review of the procedures were strongly condemned by the Opposition which argued that the monitoring function should be undertaken by a Select Committee of the House of Commons which would ‘ oversee the work of any person responsible for , or making use of , the interception of communications ’ . |
| 7 | It has come after years of various cobbled-together options , with one of the louder voices being that of a City lobbying group , the City Group for Smaller Companies ( CISCO ) which argued that the proposed closure of the USM before a proper alternative was thought out showed a lack of concern , particularly for the problems faced by companies coming to the market for the first time . |
| 8 | Walesa 's call was supported by the Citizens ' Parliamentary Club , a pro-Walesa parliamentary caucus , and by the Centre Alliance and the Green Party , but was opposed by the Democratic Party and the Democratic Left parliamentary groups which argued that the dissolution issue should be broached only after the electoral law and constitutional amendments had been adopted . |
| 9 | An example of this might be the " embourgeoisement theory " which enjoyed widespread currency a few years ago in sociology , and which argued that the " working class " , in Britain , were becoming more like the " middle class " in their aspirations , consumption patterns and political views . |
| 10 | By closing down Polish educational institutions ( notably the university at Vil'na and the lycée at Krzemieniec ) , by suppressing the Uniate Church ( in 1839 ) , by abolishing Magdeburg Law in Kiev ( in 1835 ) and the Lithuanian Statute throughout the region ( in 1840 ) , by promoting the publication of history books which argued that the western provinces had been Russian from time immemorial , by depriving many Poles of noble status , by promoting the interests of their Ukrainian and Belorussian serfs , and by insisting that local administration be conducted in Russian , he sought to make clear what he meant by allowing " Nationality " , narodnost' , to be attached to " Orthodoxy " and " Autocracy " in the celebrated circular of 1833 . |
| 11 | There was a school of thought which argued that the USSR was rapidly ceasing to be a messianic and revolutionary power . |
| 12 | The principles were originally developed in the 1972 Younger Report , which argued that the government should ensure that private sector data users comply with ten principles of good data processing . |
| 13 | The move follows a threat by Malaysia and Indonesia , which argued that the law discriminates against them , to introduce an economic boycott of Austria . |
| 14 | The company was ordered to pay back the money by the EC , which ruled that the benefits constituted illegal State aid . |
| 15 | On the basis of a report delivered by Gorbachev on Feb. 7 a resolution was adopted which ruled that the independence declaration should be " regarded as having no standing " , and urged the Lithuanian communists to suspend their decision to break with the CPSU until the matter could be debated at the 28th party congress . |
| 16 | The US Supreme Court on Aug. 1 overturned the July 29 decision of a New York appeals court which ruled that the repatriation policy was illegal . |
| 17 | It has received formal approval from the Justice Ministry , which ruled that the Party 's programme is acceptable under the recently-approved Law on Political parties . |
| 18 | A report was made to the Interim Committee of the UN General Assembly , which operated when the General Assembly was not sitting . |
| 19 | However , perhaps he could be more generous , given the present need for investment , and allow for a limited period , such as that which operated when the right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) was Chancellor . |
| 20 | Thus the Godardian question — ‘ who speaks in the image ? ’ — is given answer in Adornian tones : it is the ‘ system which decrees that the order of money determines the order of the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 45 ) . |
| 21 | The Guardian revealed on Nov. 30 , 1989 , the contents of a confidential memorandum from John Bourn , the Comptroller and Auditor General , which disclosed that the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) had failed to disclose to the EC details of concessions worth £38,000,000 given to BAe to secure its purchase of Rover , and further revealed on Feb. 19 and 28 , 1990 , other financial details of the purchase . |
| 22 | The full-strength argument is that there are often substantial costs to employing someone which mean that a company might choose to employ a machine rather than a person even if that person 's wages cost them nothing . |
| 23 | The case for R&D agreements is partly that they avoid wasteful duplication of research , and allow complementary skills and risks to be pooled , but mainly that they internalize the information spillovers which mean that a single firm is unable to appropriate all the returns to its R&D efforts . |
| 24 | One of the principal concerns of the regulators is the volatility and gearing of futures contracts , which mean that an investor can quickly lose his entire investment and also incur unlimited further liability . |
| 25 | According to Mr Billington , the proposed changes in the law would ‘ effectively eviscerate ’ the US copyright registration system and remove the statutory incentives which mean that the Library of Congress receives the free deposit copies to which it is entitled . |
| 26 | Within the PC environment there are at least four common resolutions plus dozens of hybrids which mean that the fonts have to be set up correctly for the display . |
| 27 | The World Bank has already put forward proposals for a global environment fund with which UNEP and the UN Development Programme would be associated . |
| 28 | They scattered across the dirt plaza that gave the low-lying village its air of consequence ; those whose homes lay uphill began their journey with scuffling games of last-lick which ceased as the road became steep and the heat too strong . |
| 29 | Finally , I left hospital and joined a community near Banbury in Oxfordshire , most of which disbanded while the remainder came here to Glastonbury . |
| 30 | In the third case guilt from the sins of the fathers led to giving money and material provision which failed because the Aboriginal community was not involved in choosing how to help itself . |