Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They report their statements , analyse their actions , and re-create their thoughts , so as to convey the reasons which account for why each step was taken rather than any other . |
| 2 | It may well be , however , that this approach misses important explanatory factors which account for why the military-industrial complex has developed . |
| 3 | The company admits that it is disappointed with its returns from Spain , which have so far produced sales which account for just 3% of its total European total : the company had expected 10–15% . |
| 4 | This makes up only about 2% of industry 's own spending on R&D , and in the past many of the DTI 's handouts have landed in the hands of the large firms which account for so much of industry 's total . |
| 5 | As Table 2.5 shows , some 70 per cent of agency workers are in eight narrowly defined occupations — systems analysts and programmers , nurses , draughtsmen , clerks , secretaries and receptionists , office machine operators , telephonists , and bus and lorry drivers — which account for only 18 per cent of total employment . |
| 6 | Departments have also generally found it easier to establish objectives for administrative costs ( which account for only 13 per cent of departmental expenditure ) than for programme costs ( 87 per cent of departmental expenditure and , therefore , offering potentially much greater scope for savings ) ( Public Accounts Committee , 1986–7c , para. 30 ) . |
| 7 | Rawsthorne points out that Lawrence is more about sexuality than specific acts of sex which account for only two or three sections of the 600-page novel . |
| 8 | But reduced East-West tension has made this even more difficult , clobbering defence sales , which account for roughly half of Deutsche Aerospace 's revenues . |
| 9 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 10 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 11 | The Audit Commission focused on the 20 most common operations , which account for about 30 per cent . |
| 12 | Spider monkeys ( A teles geoffreyi ) on Barro Colorado Island eat leaves , which account for about 20% of their fresh weight intake and provide most of their protein , notable being the protein-rich young shoots of Poulsenia armata ( Moraceae ) and Ceiba pentandra ( Bombacaceae ) , which has 25.3% dry weight protein , and Cecropia leaves , especially their petioles , which have high mineral content . |
| 13 | More than 40 per cent of the world population lives in China , India , Eastern Europe and South America , which account for less than 10 per cent of our sales today . |
| 14 | Will my right Hon. Friend confirm that the authority 's detailed proposals will be published before the summer , and will those proposals include advertising campaigns on tobacco and alcohol abuse , which account for more than 100,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom ? |
| 15 | At times Levitation attempt to musically shock but it rarely works , ‘ Squirrel ’ has a weird keyboard break which fits in as much as George Bush would at a peace benefit punk gig , but at least they try to bemuse . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend should be aware how much we welcome his statement and that of the Secretary of State , which concentrate on how children are taught in schools rather than on the number of teachers employed . |
| 17 | Lead was mined at several sites in Scotland 's Lowther Hills , and there are interesting remains of the industry here , which operated for about six centuries . |
| 18 | The new team must have some response which goes beyond tamely printing and busily marketing ream after ream of gilt-edged stock . |
| 19 | The presence of matter causes the curvature of space–time and in turn this curvature influences the paths of matter and of light , a view which goes beyond both classical and special relativistic mechanics . |
| 20 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 21 | There is not a day which goes by when I do n't think of them , ’ she says . |
| 22 | Pupils exposed to this type of participatory , exploratory approach to literature can acquire a firm foundation from which to proceed to more formal literary responses , should they subsequently choose to do so . |
| 23 | Five cosmids , which correspond to very strong signals , have been found positive for minisatellites or CpG rich trinucleotide repeats and are likely to be nonspecific . |
| 24 | To provide a distinctive higher education service of undisputed quality which differs from much traditional higher education in the following ways : |
| 25 | Similarly we might not want any hard and fast decisions about and to be made if the subsequent input is , since giss is not a valid word , unlike kiss , which differs by only one phonetic feature . |
| 26 | An electricity generating company in California sued a laboratory which failed to properly document its analysis ; the company was trying to recover from the laboratory the costs of settling a suit for unfair dismissal brought by an employee who lost her job because of the test . |
| 27 | Table one on er page three er which refers to mostly to F appendix one , er of seventy three point nought million pounds or ninety four-ninety five er moving to seventy two point eight million in ninety five-six . |
| 28 | It was an ‘ evolutionary ’ model that was being proposed , and it was endorsed by the Council , which asked for further work to be done on some details , and for the proposals to be published . |
| 29 | It was put down by Darius , who in 490 sent a punitive expedition which burned Eretria but was defeated by the Athenians at Marathon , a victory which became at once a legend . |
| 30 | Martyn and Allestry also produced the first ‘ scientific ’ journal , the Philosophical Transactions , edited by Henry Oldenburg [ q.v. ] , which became by far the most important international forum for natural philosophy and eventually the official journal of the Royal Society . |