Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rural councils have found themselves hamstrung by the centralized control of local authority expenditure ( particularly during the periods of economic stagnation and crisis ) and , in the case of housing , by the imposition of cost yardsticks which rarely take account of the peculiar difficulties which many rural councils face from the heavier costs incurred in housing provision in remote areas . |
| 2 | It is we , however , who have to work out the connections of similarity and contrast between the expressions in the groups A to L , which thereby become representative of something more general , which could not be expressed by simply adding together the literal senses of the words . |
| 3 | International studies confirm Crossman 's criticism : they place Britain no higher than sixteenth in the league table of countries which most enjoy freedom to publish . |
| 4 | A utility converts whole documents , or a specified range of pages , into PCX files which most fax software can handle . |
| 5 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 6 | The two watchmen were in a van , radio-equipped of course , but unfortunately the particular area was under some overhead power cables which badly affect radio for some distance around . ’ |
| 7 | But there is evidence that species which wholly abandon sex are short-lived on an evolutionary time-scale . |
| 8 | And even if they are physically present , are there particular lessons or activities which are inaccessible because textbooks or work-sheets demand a level of literacy and comprehension which effectively prevent access ? |
| 9 | The top-security ‘ dispersal prisons ’ are frequently not filled to capacity , while overcrowding is concentrated in local prisons ( which predominantly house remand prisoners and those on short-term sentences ) . |
| 10 | The insurance is only intended to cover vendors who at the time of contract had no knowledge of circumstances which eventually give rise to a claim or of the likelihood of claims being made under the warranties . |
| 11 | Through traffic is usually reduced by road closures and speeds are cut by carriageway narrowings , small roundabouts and by various types of humps , which additionally increase conspicuity of intersections and other traffic . |
| 12 | But it h er has certain effects which basically cause muscle relaxation , small amount of muscle relaxation , dries up the saliva in your throat . |
| 13 | These polymers can form intermolecular hydrogen bonds which greatly enhance crystallite stability . |
| 14 | The combined effect of these problems is currently felt in the Spanish railways ' extremely low commercial speeds which greatly hamper competition with road and air transport . |
| 15 | Among the pairs children learned , at least in my day , were items like black/white ( which only make sense as antonyms if you have studied physics ) , north/south ( ditto ) , day/night ( though in the context of fashion , the appropriate opposition is day/evening ) and long/short ( like old/ young , a continuum or pseudo-opposite ) . |
| 16 | They were too old for most of the jobs which provided training and which only recruit school or college leavers , and too young for many of the adult jobs which required recruits to be over 21 , and where employers preferred those who were married , with a family and a large mortgage . |
| 17 | Theorem 8.1 ( Tipler ) Let ( M , g ) be a space-time with g at least C 2 , and suppose ( M , g ) has two globally defined commuting space-like Killing vector fields δ x and δ y which together generate plane symmetry . |
| 18 | There are also some ditched enclosures which obviously represent property boundaries ; of most interest in this respect is a slightly meandering ditch , which appears to have acted as a southern limit for the suburb in the middle of the third century . |
| 19 | Any handicaps or special characteristics which obviously affect health and development can not be ignored . |
| 20 | In contrast to other European countries , which generally grant citizenship to those born on their territory , Bonn 's 80-year-old law recognises ethnic Germans abroad as German citizens but all but excludes long-standing immigrant workers and their children born and educated exclusively in Germany . |
| 21 | Their natural reaction to this is to shed leaves , to cut maintenance back to the essential main frame as it were , and this may happen during August or at the beginning of September , long before the frosts which generally trigger leaf fall . |
| 22 | Government and legal — administrative institutions are moulded in forms which optimally sustain capital accumulation , whether or not the state is directly controlled by capitalists and irrespective of the precise balance of class forces . |
| 23 | Studies of cognition which seek to elucidate the nature or that cultural order which we might impose upon or recognize in the world may well be concerned with the classification of objects , but they generally fail to acknowledge , let alone address , the difference between artefacts such as cutlery which already incorporate categorization in their manufac-turer , and objects such as trees which do not ( e.g. Rosch 1978 : 30–5 ) . |
| 24 | English Nature have responded by drawing up a lowland peatland policy , which includes commitments : , to oppose new planning applications for peat extraction on Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) ; , to seek protection for SSSI sites which already have planning permission — by purchasing or leasing the site , providing grant aid for conservation management , or liaising with extractors to minimize damage ; , to support the development of alternatives to peat . |
| 25 | If pornography were to be restricted legally the mechanisms would likely to be similar to those which already affect rape reporting , so their use is relevant to both issues . |
| 26 | It will have been in this connection that he wrote the discarded pieces " On music and words " , which largely rework part " of " The Dionysiac Philosophy " of the previous year , but whose copious references to Schopenhauer , opera and Beethoven 's Choral Symphony relate directly to one side of the Wagner problem , though without any explicit stress on that fact . " |
| 27 | The Queen 's Bench and Chancery Divisions are no longer distinct courts , though , as a matter of working convenience , matters which involve mainly the Common Law come before the Queen 's Bench ; those which largely involve Equity come before the Chancery Division . |
| 28 | The discount houses provide an important service to the banks by allowing them to hold extremely liquid assets ( money at call ) which nevertheless earn interest . |
| 29 | The surface of each of the dendrites which branch out from the neuronal cell body is covered with synapses — perhaps up to ten thousand in all — arising from the other neurons which thus make contact with them . |
| 30 | In this chapter we outline some of the transitions which normally take place in the course of married life and the challenges they pose . |