Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 10 ) Because members of the Panel executive and the full Panel are often seconded from merchant banks , stockbrokers , firms of solicitors and accountants they may have to excuse themselves from dealing with any case which involves their employing company or firm . |
| 2 | In particular , notice that the critical frequencies of m-derived T and Π-sections are determined by the general condition which renders their characteristic impedance zero or infinite respectively . |
| 3 | The paramount mistake has been that the intelligence of the individual has been permitted to be clouded by childhood teaching to such an extent that he has been persuaded that the religious writings came from some other source which renders them inviolate . |
| 4 | For example , the Trabant 's bodywork is a combination of cotton and plastic , which renders it rustproof . |
| 5 | And it is precisely its predictability which renders it impotent . |
| 6 | The conservative critique thus argues that the type of order which liberalism envisages ‘ tends to produce a sort of mindless hedonism which renders it defenceless against more vital tyrannies ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 8 | Whether or not the act is criminal is immaterial , since it is the explicitness of depiction which renders it obscene . |
| 9 | Crib-biting is typical of a vice , by definition a bad habit which renders it liable to decline in health . |
| 10 | The scenic elements in Corolla , Angels Margarit 's solo dance work which receives its British premiere as part of New Moves this week , are not in themselves remarkable . |
| 11 | The walls and floors are covered with massively bloodstained hangings and carpets , and mounted around the room are preserved bodies of victims killed in a manner which represents their ruling passion . |
| 12 | So they get thrown when faced with a canvas which represents nothing other than form or shape or colour and they get thrown because they have n't the vocabulary , it seems to them , to respond to it , and they feel the need to respond verbally . |
| 13 | An arrangement whereby a limited partner invests a capital sum in the business which he is not permitted to withdraw until dissolution of the partnership ( which will not automatically occur on death or bankruptcy etc ) and which represents his maximum liability in respect of the firm 's debts and obligations , who is given a profit share but who is excluded from the management of the firm , is doubtless seen as too restrictive . |
| 14 | In recent years , folk music has shed its woolly jumper and finger-in-the-ear image and reached a new audience which appreciates its wide range of styles and influences . |
| 15 | As soon as hubby returns from the war , Dottie plans to walk away from the game — which irritates her competitive sister , a pitcher in the team , even more . |
| 16 | Thus , in spite of the problems involved in clearly identifying and measuring the contribution which education makes to economic growth , the balance of the available evidence suggests that an advanced industrial society which neglects its educational system does so at its own economic peril . |
| 17 | In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ . |
| 18 | The rest is history , but one which records her pivotal work with the Ordinary Life initiative more than ten years ago , from which so much else has flowed ; working with Maureen Oswin on bereavement which culminated two years ago in the latter 's Am I Allowed to Cry ? , helping to get the Campaign for Mentally Handicapped People ( now Values into Action ) off the ground ; respite care ; and the initiative to get children out of long-stay hospitals . |
| 19 | In modern times , psychologists have said that our unconscious mind , which powers our inbuilt desires , is simply another name for God . |
| 20 | The box at Marske-in-Swaledale , which turns its blank stainless steel back to the main road , is a particularly sore thumb . |
| 21 | In addition you could benefit from a messaging system which turns your mobile phone into an answerphone when not in use . |
| 22 | Area MPs have still to be convinced that it is the sporting fishery which butters their electoral bread . |
| 23 | We must lose that which constitutes our peculiar energy . ’ |
| 24 | They presented a plaque to Rob Poynter on behalf of the British association which holds its annual swimming championships at the centre . |
| 25 | FOYLE Meats has given a big boost to the National Sheep Association , which holds its multi-breed ram sale at Antrim on September 21 . |
| 26 | The next time you visit your doctor , you might ask to see the buff envelope which holds your medical history . |
| 27 | One of the most popular has been carnelian , which owes its reddish colour to the presence of iron oxide . |
| 28 | However , where such measures are adopted by a qualified majority , Article 100A(4) provides that ‘ a Member State which deems it necessary to apply national provisions on grounds of major needs referred to in art . |
| 29 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 30 | It receives a substantial recurrent grant from the University , which covers its operational overheads . |