Example sentences of "process which [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " Problem solving " was also referred to as a more global idea , or a process which prompts active thought rather than a question designed to initiate rote-learning techniques .
2 The Parliamentary Commissioner however said , ‘ I have seen the reports in question and have noted that there was a reference to an industrial process which caused such offence , but there was no mention of an incineration plant , nor was the appellant firm involved ’ .
3 The story is about a new chemical process which eats toxic waste .
4 Inheriting the earth , or what 's left of it by the time the non-meek have realized the folly of their ways , is a process which takes much fortitude and patience .
5 Chemists can extract gas from transformer oil , a process which enables operational engineers to monitor potential overheating or electrical problems within oil-filled transformers .
6 Policy-making is inevitably , and universally , a long , drawn-out process which involves many people within the organisation .
7 And in tha in our statement we say , that we are talking about a process which involves both governments , all parties , and what we 're talking about is agreement among the divided people to which all sections can give their loyalty .
8 Germany 's bishops were in exile when Bismarck , in 1879 , began to consider a restoration of relations with the Papacy , a process which took several years ( see also below , p. 220 ) .
9 Instead of the brief annual bargaining over estimates , each year 's budget would be the outcome of a longer-term planning process which set authority-wide priorities .
10 Helen Smith operates a card cutting machine , part of the Axminster Jacquard loom patterning process which prepares punched cards .
11 The film is therefore built up in pieces , a process which makes particular demands of an actor — who is also vulnerable to technical problems with cameras , lighting and editing in a way which is quite removed from the stage actor 's experience .
12 AEA 's tyre pyrolyser uses high temperatures and an oxygen-free environment to decompose tyres chemically , giving a cheaper process which has lower emissions of nitrogen-oxide and sulphur-oxide than incineration .
13 All are interdependent and each principle in turn depends upon the effective management of appropriate processes which require relevant skills and qualities .
14 The neo-classical assumption of an underlying tendency towards equality is , however , most hotly disputed by a school of thought which would argue , by contrast , that the very fact of uneven development at any one time creates further processes which make that inequality hard to counter .
15 They attempt to capture the collision of present and past , thought processes which juxtapose all sorts of childhood memories and significances with an adult self awareness .
16 They attempt to capture the collision of present and past , thought processes which juxtapose all sorts of childhood memories and significances with an adult self awareness .
17 It is hoped that the research will serve to enhance our understanding of formal and informal processes which facilitate primary school curriculum development and management .
18 Technological innovation is the source of many manufacturing processes which produce harmful pollutants , of products which cause great harm in themselves and of processes which permit immense powers of control by governments over individuals .
19 In a field which is continually changing , the trainers have to keep their own interpreting skills up to date and their knowledge of the services in which they are training students to work and continually improve their understanding of the cognitive and linguistic processes which underpin those skills .
20 This success was to tempt , and still tempts , thinkers to deny or underestimate the very different and novel processes which govern historic change and reduce the changes in human societies to the rules of biological evolution — with important political consequences and , sometimes , intentions ( ‘ social-Darwinism ’ ) .
21 Again , a few instances must suffice to show how the culture of racism , and institutional processes which provide discretionary Al locative power to teachers , tend to intermesh and work against many black students .
22 In his account of social phenomenology , Alfred Schutz ( 1967 ) claimed that the variability and complexity of the everyday world requires members to use particular cognitive processes which reduce this ambiguity .
23 In view of the uncertainties in our knowledge of stellar processes which generate gravitational waves , calculations here are limited to order-of-magnitude estimates of the power output to be expected in a favourable case .
24 The focus of social work shifts from a concern with achieving personal change to social change , so the targets of intervention become the economic , social , and political processes which generate social problems .
25 Secondly , there are processes which select certain patterns of motion in preference to others .
26 Comparative studies can lead to a greater understanding of the factors and processes which determine industrial relations phenomena since ‘ the comparative method leads to questions regarding the reasons for the observed comparisons and contrasts ’ ( Dunlop , 1958 , p. vi ) .
27 Technological innovation is the source of many manufacturing processes which produce harmful pollutants , of products which cause great harm in themselves and of processes which permit immense powers of control by governments over individuals .
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