Example sentences of "which [vb base] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have minimum interest rates which mean some people are paying four per cent more than they should , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 2 | That is carried to such an extreme that we will recognise dictatorships and ignore the coups which bring some despots to power . |
| 3 | But the seams dip steeply in places and there are many faults which bring some workings to an abrupt end . |
| 4 | It has been made clear from the outset that the Board 's remit extends over some 350 institutions ; in other words , it is concerned not just with the 90 or so establishments substantially engaged in public sector higher education that would have come within the aegis of the Green Paper 's Model B , but with virtually all those which make some provision for higher education . |
| 5 | A surprising number have tales which suggest some form of ‘ activity ’ , almost as if they were alive , a strange thing on the surface , as stones are the archetype of solid , unmoving form . |
| 6 | The depressions which accompany the menopause for many women and those which afflict some men in middle life militate against enjoyment generally and often result in a generally sour view of society as a whole . |
| 7 | The introduction to the Scottish Office handbook begins : ‘ Traditionally the term ‘ outdoor education ’ has been applied to activities out-of-doors which involve some degree of physical challenge and risk . ’ |
| 8 | For example , they may force the potentially inefficient firms either to join them in adopting cost-saving innovations which involve some disruption of current working practices , or to go to the wall . |
| 9 | Its practical bearing follows from these aims ; for by constructing concepts , forms of argument and criteria of evidence which attain some degree of objectivity and universality , political sociology , to the extent that it is diffused through society , has an effect on ideologies and on political consciousness generally , and so contributes to the shaping of political action . |
| 10 | When scientists draw graphs they typically plot a scattering of points which show some pattern . |
| 11 | Only very short-term speculative balances will be held in sight deposits : they will be held mainly in time deposits which earn some interest , but which are still totally risk free . |
| 12 | ‘ Industrial democracy ’ on the other hand is a term which is generally taken to refer to particular practices of management already operating in certain capitalist economies ( e.g. West Germany ) or specific proposals such as those of the Bullock Committee ( Bullock , 1977 ) , practices and proposals which give some role to workers or their representatives in enterprise decision-making , but which are not necessarily linked to the overall social planning of the economy in the interests of working people . |
| 13 | Certain themes emerge from this discussion of patterns of kin support in the past which give some clues to the type of social processes that underlie the giving and receiving of support in families , and the principles upon which it is based . |
| 14 | Shearwaters and petrels belong to a group called the tube-noses , for their nostrils are protected by a pair of tubes which extend some way down the beak from its base and these give them a much better perception of smell than other birds have . |
| 15 | This of course creates things which did not exist , and which owe some part of their character to the intruding anthropologist . |
| 16 | One often reads of jealousies , of quarrels , of friendships , of instances of patronage , of pique and of loyalty which illuminate some aspect of a man 's character , of the nature of the society in which he lived or of the system in which he worked . |
| 17 | These are taken-for-granted groupings which assume some form of unity within each category without ever clearly identifying the source of this unity . |
| 18 | The evidence for the working of government is equally slight , but there are recurrent features which allow some insight into the organization of the kingdoms . |
| 19 | Instead of postulating a single link between CS and US we should perhaps imagine a whole collection of them ( the exact number depending on which attributes of the stimuli are noticed and encoded by the animal ) , all of which play some part in generating the CR . |
| 20 | Indeed , we can probably find some kind of research in progress in each of the 200 or more institutions which offer some kind of higher education in the UK . |
| 21 | There are , for instance , mnemonic devices in oral cultures which offer some resistance to this process : ‘ formalised patterns of speech , recital under ritual conditions , the use of drums and other musical instruments , the employment of professional remembrancers — all such factors may shield at least part of the content of memory from the transmuting influence of the immediate pressures of the present ’ ( 1968 , p. 31 ) . |
| 22 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
| 23 | Another question is whether the criminal law ought not to be wider in its application to activities which carry some risk of causing death than in other spheres . |
| 24 | Factors which affect some quality parameters , eg , reliability , are considered in reference . |
| 25 | Are there any of your objectives which require some action this side of marriage ? |
| 26 | ON August 25 , 1992 , in a report about the large amount of divorce legal costs , we inadvertently stated , due to a typographical error , that average costs of cases which take some time amounted to £250,000 , when the correct figure should be £25,000 . |
| 27 | They are usually mixed with non-ionics in which form some types exhibit significant disinfectant properties . |
| 28 | There are several possible answers , all of which contain some truth . |
| 29 | However , there are some cases decided since Fleet Street Casuals which throw some light on the issue . |
| 30 | This ethos contributed to the desexualisation of lesbianism and also ignored a whole range of inequalities which erode some lesbians ' choice of lovers . |