Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report , compiled by NUPE , NALGO and COHSE , which are forming the new union UNISON , is based on a survey of 1,200 local authority home helps in England , Scotland , and Wales . |
| 2 | these are the areas which are reaching the final stages of the demographic cycle in which , as a result of migration of the child-bearing age-groups , the residual population is unable to maintain , let alone increase , its own level by means of natural growth . |
| 3 | He would also learn about a series of problems , the main one of which is the unfair subsidies to ship building companies in the European Community which are handicapping the British ship building industry in terms of merchant shipping orders . |
| 4 | Outwards , there has been a call to overcome the sources of alien influence which are corrupting the Muslim societies with which they come into contact . |
| 5 | Immediately under the throne is an enclosure , surrounded by silver rails , in which are assembled the whole body of Omrahs , the Rajahs and the Ambassadors , all standing with their eyes bent downwards , and their hands crossed . |
| 6 | For example , they associate liberal democracy with the core countries , arguing that such a system is only sustainable over substantial periods in countries which are exploiting the entire world-system , and can ‘ buy-off ’ popular demands from their own residents because of the wealth that is being appropriated from other countries . |
| 7 | The main trend was for greater powers for the republics , which were to join the new union on a voluntary basis , choosing the level of involvement which they wanted to have . |
| 8 | The foregoing is fully applicable to the motivation of all those individuals who influenced the events which were creating the religious climate and who , unbeknown to themselves were contributing to the Created God . |
| 9 | The typical Mediterranean wine-olive-wheat complex began , in the eighteenth century , an expansion and modification that were to continue , after the shocks of war , into the nineteenth and which were to transform the agricultural potential of Catalonia . |
| 10 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 11 | It comprised a circular curtain-wall of stone enclosing a courtyard within which were placed the domestic apartments and service offices , probably of timber construction . |
| 12 | Even in eastern Europe the active anti-semitic campaigns , which were to stimulate the mass emigration of the Jews , still lay in the future . |
| 13 | The Church gave to every community , large or small , refuge from persecution and pillage , provided education and learning , medical aid and a basis for life by which were allayed the superstitious fears of the individual , which stemmed from his lack of experience and knowledge of health , life and death , understanding of the world and of man himself . |
| 14 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
| 15 | Now the suite was in my name , so I was charged with possession of all these drugs , and with assault , and with a lot of other charges like operating a dive , running a disorderly house and all silly charges which were dropped the following day . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the issues which created the divide during the Exclusion Crisis were not new ; concerns about the prospect of a popish successor , the growth of popery and arbitrary government , and the nature of government in both Church and State , had been creating tensions long before Titus Oates made the revelations which were to precipitate the political crisis at the end of Charles II 's reign . |
| 17 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 18 | On the contrary , none of the nations wanted war , and ‘ ever new progressive and democratic forces ’ had appeared in the capitalist countries which were strengthening the common struggle for peace . |
| 19 | Clergymen accused the early Cremation Societies of creating local monopolies , which were putting the new practice beyond the reach of the poor . |
| 20 | There was intense suspicion of the ‘ foreigner ’ ( although he was as likely to be a trader from the nearby town as a native of another land ) , but the ordinary inhabitants of the territories which were to become the modern States of Europe had no sense of common identity , of membership of national groups . |
| 21 | Under the treaty with the United Kingdom , the twenty-six counties which were to become the independent state were to remain within the British Empire with dominion status , and the British monarch was to remain head of state . |
| 22 | We lost 0–2 but events were taking shape which were to bring the young goalkeeper to the fore : Coventry City swooped for Glazier 's signature in mid-October at a record fee for a goalkeeper of £35,000 . |
| 23 | More than a century earlier , in 1856 , a Select Committee of the House of Commons had heard arguments remarkably similar to those which were to convince the Royal Commission : |
| 24 | The United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association , which is meeting the legal costs of the nuns ' case , was ‘ pleased and surprised ’ with the ruling that the nuns should be paid the full market price of £1.42 each for the birds if they were slaughtered . |
| 25 | But also with it comes erm office accommodation which is handling the clerical processing , ordering and so on of the business itself . |
| 26 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
| 27 | Miles too had been invited to join the Arts Council 's literature panel , an offer which was promptly rescinded after Goodman got to hear of it , and which prompted a poem for page two of It on 27 February 1967 , from Adrian Mitchell , suggesting that such an appointment would ‘ disrupt the council 's true intent which is to fill the entire interior of the Royal Opera House with tins of chunkydogmeat and the rest of England with custard of the kind which thickens and grows a skin on top ’ . |
| 28 | Mrs Mary McDonald , Diocesan President , in her address to the members , reminded us of the aims and objects of the U.C.M. , one of which is to uphold the Sacramental Dignity of Marriage and to maintain Christian values in family life . |
| 29 | According to the Archangelsk-based newspaper , Volna , Moscow radio reported that the units would be financially independent , funding themselves in part by collecting titanium scrap " which is littering the entire tundra landscape from Mezen to the Yamal and beyond , in the form of wreckage from the first stages of rockets launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome " . |
| 30 | Performance Bonus IBOA identified its concern in relation to a new Performance Bonus which is replacing the old Profit Sharing Scheme in NIB . |