Example sentences of "which [vb base] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The large urban local authorities which remain the last bastion of Labour power have tried to undercut New Right attacks by improving the efficiency and quality of their services , and becoming more responsive to their users ( Fenwick 1989 ; Young 1991 ) .
2 It is the profusion of flowers which make the first impression on visitors although fruit and vegetables are grown as well .
3 Quite often it is the clearing banks which make the first move by announcing a base rate change before the Bank alters its intervention rates .
4 It will all depend on the choice to be made by the national legislatures , and in the case of countries which make the third choice the employee 's option not to transfer may give the worker no more than he or she already has under the Mikkelsen doctrine i.e. the option of going over or resigning from employment with the transferor .
5 This course allows students to extend their knowledge and understanding of the modern world , and to gain an appreciation of the elements which characterize the 19th and 20th centuries .
6 But unlike most schools which set the 2nd MB at the end of the second year of the course , before the students start their clinical studies , Southampton has moved the exam to the end of the third ( first clinical ) year .
7 The second machine takes a second look at the beans which pass the first scan using ultraviolet light .
8 Independent conditional statements are thus different in kind from those dependent nomic conditional statements or simply dependent conditionals , which state the first four of our causal relations .
9 An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music .
10 To illustrate Jakobson 's approach to these texts , let us take his analysis ( with L.G. Jones ) of Shakespeare 's Sonnet cxxix , ‘ Th'Expence of Spirit ’ ( 1970 ) : The analysis considers in turn the following relationships of equivalence and contrast ( which evidently depends on and emphasizes equivalence ) in the poem ( the spelling and punctuation follow the first edition ) : ( 1 ) those which oppose the first seven lines to the last seven ; ( 2 ) those which are constant features of the text as a whole ; ( 3 ) those which oppose strophes I and III to II and IV ; ( 4 ) those which oppose strophes I and IV to ( I and III ( the outer and the inner ) ; ( 5 ) those which oppose strophes I and II to III and IV ; ( 6 ) those which oppose the final couplet to the rest of the poem ; and ( 7 ) those which oppose the middle couplet ( lines 7 and 8 ) to the rest of the poem .
11 If the characteristically echinoderm skeleton of calcareous ‘ stereom ’ was acquired before the equally distinctive water-vascular system , then the aberrant cornutes ( which have the first , but not the second ) are a very early branch of echinoderms .
12 There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act .
13 Davies ' description provides additional information and the writer has taken the liberty to amalgamate those which concern the 6th Work :
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