Example sentences of "which [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence is provided by a number of low scarps which wind for considerable distances across the Mercurian surface . |
| 2 | Older people are more expensive for the state to care for — not only are they eligible for state pensions , which account for 13 per cent of public expenditure in Britain and 22 per cent of the federal budget in the United States , they are also the most costly group for public health services since they are likely to require expensive operations and long stays in hospital . |
| 3 | Scott Cairns , promoted from within to fill the role vacated by Mr Milne , aims to lift Scottish investment from 63 p.c. to 70 p.c. , and increase the retail content at the expense of offices , which account for 55 p.c . |
| 4 | Doctors will be able to use the kit for regular screening for lung and gastric cancers , which account for 70 per cent of cancers treated in the western world . |
| 5 | The publication details major financial losses and fatalities caused by minor events and provides a prescription for reducing these losses , which account for many millions of working days lost each year . |
| 6 | The new parent wants to concentrate on rail traction vehicles for railways , industry and mining , which account for 90 per cent of LEW 's sales . |
| 7 | But Carl Prean may not be accommodated on one issue , the exclusion of German Bundesliga results , which account for most of his successes . |
| 8 | In addition there are rehearsals , which account for most of the time spent on music . |
| 9 | Conversely , musculo-skeletal problems , which account for few deaths of those aged 65 + , are a major cause of disability in the community . |
| 10 | The position is less clear in the case of the 3,000 miles of inter-urban routes , which account for 60 per cent of Regional Railways ' track . |
| 11 | And the figures would have been higher still , but for a smaller rise in car offences which account for three quarters of all reported crimes . |
| 12 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 13 | Filter tip cigarettes , which account for some 97% of cigarettes sales in the UK , yield less tar than plain cigarettes although some filter brands yield more carbon monoxide . |
| 14 | It is small , burgeoning firms which account for true economic growth . |
| 15 | Many of the concepts explained may appear to be self-evident but their thorough understanding will assist the reader in later chapters which concentrate on international banks , markets and financial flows . |
| 16 | MSC are opposed to schemes which can be defined by them as political or critical of prevailing government policy — in practice , this leaves courses for women which concentrate on traditional job skills and traditional job expectations — even though those skills are not valued in the present economic climate and the opportunities for women in the labour market are negligible . |
| 17 | Some are service agencies providing painting and decorating , gardening and catering services to the local community ; others have developed workshops which concentrate on one business activity — baking , furniture renovation and picture-framing are examples . |
| 18 | Under the heading of coarse fishing there are different types of fishing which concentrate on one species an example of this is Carp fishing . |
| 19 | In this way it is different from the bulk colonial films which concentrate on white men 's adventures and dramas . |
| 20 | Transfer activities , which concentrate on both written and spoken skills , stimulate active language production . |
| 21 | Services which concentrate upon those with greatest needs . |
| 22 | Thus there is a group of genes — mouse genes — which recombine with each other , but not with genes from unrelated animals . |
| 23 | A grid represents a two-dimensional array of observations and judgments ( elements and constructs ) which interrelate in such a way that each is meaningful in terms of the other . |
| 24 | Conventional turnkey CAD systems use a geometric data base , storing data about single entities which combine into geometric models . |
| 25 | Here a discreet entrance boasts cool marble floors and imposing columns which combine with fine wood and soft lighting for an impressive welcome . |
| 26 | To begin with there is no single ability , rather there are several like speed , accuracy , strength , endurance and resilience which combine in manifold ways to determine the ‘ raw material ’ to be shaped . |
| 27 | Adorno thus argued that Lukács 's aesthetics was an example of identity-thinking , because his realism privileged works of art which correspond with social reality . |
| 28 | From a non-evolutionist standpoint , however , the problems that can be posed concerning the state , within a Marxist conception , are limited to the following : the formation of the state as a consequence of a structural transformation of primitive communal societies ( so far as these can be properly located and studied ) ; the types of state which correspond with determinate , historically realized , modes of production , and the conditions which produce a transition from one type to another ; and in the case of capitalist society , the structural characteristics , including the contradictions , which may effect a transition to another ( unknown ) type of society . |
| 29 | FHSAs ( which correspond to non-metropolitan counties and to metropolitan boroughs ) hold large databases on services provided by general practitioners ; for instance , uptake of immunization and screening for breast and cervical cancers . |
| 30 | However , linear HIV-1 plasmid DNA was completely protected in the presence of levels of NCp7 which correspond to 1 molecule of NCp7 per 4 bp DNA ( lane 3 ) . |