Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 There are various types of mutilation : 1 ) Circumcision Proper which involves removing the hood around the clitoris .
2 There is a bad reason for thinking this , which involves taking the regress as temporal ; before I can justify A , I have to justify B and C , and so on ad infinitum , and thus I can never get started .
3 The deal , which involves sharing the costs of catering and maintenance at both Zaventem airport in Brussels and Paris , is attractive because it gives access to slots at Brussels airport , seen as a future hub for travel to 70 cities around Europe .
4 There is , however , one universal habit which involves tightening the neck muscles and this will invariably interfere with the Primary Control and , subsequently , with all the other muscles and reflexes in the body .
5 Healers use their own crystals to treat other people , and may practise a form of crystal ‘ massage ’ , which involves holding the crystal two inches above the patient and rotating it in small clockwise circles over the entire body surface .
6 A technique used in some Chinese rugs which involves inserting the pile through a canvas or duck backing with the aid of a " tufting gun " .
7 Either through work which involves training the imagination ( in the sense of being an ‘ image-making ’ faculty ) or spontaneously , a woman may have an intimation of a female guide , a feminine presence that watches over her life .
8 We also do some ‘ breeding success ’ work which involves watching the birds from nest-building to fledgling stages and recording how many chicks are produced each year .
9 Leadership which involves directing the meeting constantly and talking to the group for a majority of the time is unhelpful .
10 The energy costs of the production process , which involves mixing the oil with ethanol , must also be allowed for when assessing the environmental benefits .
11 In serious cases he also performed an operation called superior check ligament desmotomy , which involves cutting the superior check ligament just above the back of the knee , which has the effect of reducing loading on the superficial flexor tendon .
12 The most common type of contract in use is the Bill of Quantities which involves pricing the various items of work that the contractors
13 Many people , particularly in the Protestant community , consider that there is a conflict between the Commission 's assumption of a target which involves improving the employment position of Catholics and its duty , as they see it , to be neutral between the Protestant and Catholic communities .
14 The process of curriculum development which involves devising the material and trying it out .
15 ‘ the application of tariff principles requires the sentencer to find the sentence which most accurately reflects the offender 's culpability , a process which involves relating the gravity of the offence to the established pattern of sentences for offences of that kind , and then making allowance for such mitigating factors as may be present which tend to reduce the offender 's culpability .
16 Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years .
17 This path would enable children from Baberton and Juniper Green to cycle or walk to Currie High School by a shorter and safer route than the present route , which involves negotiating the busy and dangerous Lanark Road ( cyclists have to cross it twice ) .
18 THE Anglo-Swedish consortium bidding for Sea Containers , the Sealink ferries-to-Orient Express group , yesterday raised its hostile offer to $1.036billion ( £659 million ) in a move to scupper James Sherwood 's defence plan which involves selling the Isle of Wight service and the port of Harwich .
19 Textural analysis , which involves studying the size , shape and proportion of the inclusions , can be useful when the inclusions are not distinctive in other respects .
20 Having failed in its attempt to induce individuals by offering to pay £1,000 per borehole , it is now attempting a new strategy which involves inducing the whole community .
21 In addition to the urban congestion , there were two new factors , more or less coinciding in impact , which operated to degrade the traditional sanctity of the grave and hit the poorest people hardest .
22 Plaintiffs must make available to the defence all documents in their possession which are relevant to the matters in dispute — and sometimes there will be found , amongst office memoranda and other internal documents , material which goes to justify the original allegation .
23 Secondly there is the product/value which goes to maintain the extra workers if production is to expand , i.e. , .
24 Even where the base cost of the shares in Target is reduced , for example if there is a claim for breach of warranty made by Newco against the vendors which goes to reduce the overall price which Newco pays for the shares , the position can be restored if the amount Newco receives in settlement of the claim is invested in the target company in return for an issue of further shares to Newco .
25 Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised .
26 History of this sort , which offers to explain the relations between properties of societies , has been enormously successful in the past thirty years or so and provides a clear conception of how the underlying interest of holism can guide social enquiry .
27 Education , of course , does not end at the school gates : the home is one of a complex of factors which combine to affect the child 's chances at school .
28 On these pages we review some of the recent commercial successes which combine to form the foundation of our new business .
29 Several genera ( plural of genus ) may be grouped together in a family , several families together in a superfamily , and the superfamilies themselves are clustered into classes , two or more of which combine to make the phylum .
30 In fact , the total rise reflects two separate increases — the first is the actual rise in new additional funds brought in , while the second comprises the increase in existing funds arising from investment performance — which combine to make the whole .
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