Example sentences of "which [vb base] [to-vb] a " in BNC.

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1 It can be argued that , according to Bolingbroke 's definition , the United Kingdom has a constitution , as there are laws , institutions and customs which combine to create a system of government to which the community agrees , or at least , from which it does not appear to dissent .
2 Firstly , despite the functionalist tendencies already mentioned , The History of Sexuality does offer an alternative view of seeing the relationship between sexuality and wider social forces to the traditional functionalism of many ( particularly ) left interpretations , which tend to see a direct relationship between the nuclear family and organisation of sexuality , either in the interests of capitalism or as directly responsive to the urges of ‘ modernisation ’ .
3 There are three factors which tend to make a situation especially testing .
4 These are generally either thermal or electrostatic units which tend to offer a cheaper solution than buying an interface and a good quality matrix printer but the results obtained tend to be less professional .
5 Some use ionization detectors , which tend to react a little faster to flaming fires .
6 They are , as I have emphasized , highly organized political formations , which tend to develop a life of their own , to some extent independent of the social interests that originally gave rise to them and of their changing environment , and may acquire the character ( or at least the appearance ) of permanent elements in the political system .
7 In the Dinantian rocks which appear to form a major part of the leading Variscan thrust slice , the source potential of the limestones and dolomites ( which represent shallow water facies ) is assumed on the whole to be relatively low .
8 What emerges from our discussion of these different aspects of sentence and discourse comprehension is that only a very complex model will suffice to explain the inter-relation of all the different factors which appear to form a part of language comprehension .
9 These findings raise the possibility that the results with deep dyslexics , which appear to show a facilitating effect of highly imageable words on reading performance , might just as plausibly be attributed to the fact that such words tend to be learned at an early age in life .
10 An example of one category of UFO , which some researchers have pinpointed , is of objects with an ovoid shape from 1 to 3 metres in diameter , which rotate on a vertical axis , close to the ground , and which appear to emit a wide range of electromagnetic radiation .
11 So , yes there is ‘ bad ’ cholesterol , the LDL which are associated with a greater risk of heart disease , and ‘ good ’ cholesterol , the HDL which appear to have a protective effect .
12 Most CABx can identify local groups which appear to have a particular need for assistance , and NACAB policy is to encourage bureaux to cater for such special groups .
13 One of the important lessons I think to learn is that the choice of course , which tends sometimes in situations of high demand to be too related to supposed vocational use , so we notice for example that there is increasing demand for courses which appear to have a vocational content , can sometimes lead to disadvantage .
14 Yet I shall argue that , behind this dialogue within liberalism , there lurks a deeper controversy between rival schemes of moral virtue and distributive justice which seek to define a legitimate market order .
15 Teachers should realise , therefore , in presenting their programmes of Religious Education which seek to foster a personal faith and commitment they can quite properly assess pupils ' knowledge , understanding , skills and attitudes in varying degrees for the benefit of the individual pupil .
16 Many of course have come to that conclusion before , and those who have tried to reach a naturalistic morality which transcends it have had to read the historical record , or read beyond the historical record , in ways which seek to reveal a partly hidden human nature which is waiting to be realized or perfected .
17 Now we would add that representations which seek to achieve a continuation of past building rates , or a continuation of past migration levels , are not in accord with the strategy as originally approved .
18 Such considerations are , obviously , of vital importance in figural mosaics which hope to maintain a degree of naturalism .
19 However , there are also two general principles which seem to signal a particular emphasis in the public sector .
20 Similarly , approaches which seem to imply a pre-knowledge of the aims and goals of other people 's lives , and lack the willingness to retain an open mind , to live with uncertainties , possibilities and transitions — these too must be seen as professional approaches with little to recommend them .
21 There are also two cardboard peepshows from c1850 , which seem to show a tunnel going on for ever .
22 I am not sure if these bugs and worms are affecting the fish , which seem to have a gill irritation , along with a twitching of their pelvic fins .
23 Finally , in contrast to the previous characteristics , there are modifications which seem to have a more didactic function : corrections , display questions and a tendency on the part of the adult to initiate a high proportion of topics , and to pursue them at the expense of the topics that the child might wish to introduce .
24 Since technologies are ‘ neutral ’ , then no aspersions are being cast on individual members of cultures which happen to lack a particular technology and are thus taken to lack certain intellectual advantages .
25 It has been suggested that the magnetic field observed outside Mercury and which is consistent with an interior dipole source , arises instead from magnetized rocks near the surface , which happen to produce a net field which mimics that of an internal dipole source with the observed and expected low inclination with respect to the spin axis .
26 The Cohen Committee admitted that these complaints were not altogether unfounded but all that has resulted is section 192 of the Act which invalidates provisions in trust deeds ( or elsewhere ) which purport to exempt a trustee from , or to indemnify him against , ‘ liability for breach of trust where he fails to show the degree of care and diligence required of him as a trustee having regard to the provisions of the trust deed conferring on him any powers , authorities or discretions . ’
27 In this sense all socialist parties are revolutionary , since their objective is to replace a capitalist form of society by a socialist one ; so also are nationalist parties which seek to overthrow colonial rule , and perhaps in a more limited sense right-wing parties , such as fascist parties , which attempt to restore a more hierarchical and authoritarian type of society .
28 Various methods of locating sites have therefore been developed which attempt to give a better idea of a site 's layout .
29 If you have read chapters 6 and 7 , it can not have escaped your notice that whereas research into the recognition and comprehension of single words has centred around detailed theories which attempt to provide a comprehensive description of all aspects of single word processing , research into the comprehension of sentences and discourse is much more fragmented .
30 The currently fashionable field of discourse analysis provides some excellent examples , especially if we examine the language teaching materials which attempt to provide a guide to the realities of English conversation .
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