Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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1 | ( Araceae ) , which offers nothing to the ants . |
2 | The proposed council tax , which offers something to each lobby , is a slick political trick . |
3 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
4 | Like-for-like sales growth at Olympus was a hefty 18 per cent and Miss Selfridge chalked up gains of 17.4 per cent which owes something to comparatively grim weather in the previous year but also shows that mortgage pressures do not bear down on customers equally . |
5 | On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical . |
6 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
7 | ‘ Television is fast-moving and relies on much non-verbal communication , such as a quick glance between the characters , which means nothing to a young child , ’ says Dr Sheppard . |
8 | I received a stupid Certificate in Fine Art , which means nothing to me , but it pleases some . |
9 | This approach opened the way for extending judicial review to the exercise of power whether conferred by statute or common law or simply by virtue of the background principle of English law which permits anything to be done which is not prohibited by law . |
10 | A democracy … demands a dissemination of political understanding wide enough to make the people 's will in government an effective thing … the uninformed citizen … can be misled by the easy halftruth and the persuasive slogan ; or he can feel that understanding will always be beyond him and fall into that apathy which leaves everything to authority . |