Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] is [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least fifty per cent of which is documented historical fact , you claim that yourself at the beginning of the book . ’ |
| 2 | It has a Legislative Committee , one of the chief functions of which is to negotiate parliamentary endorsement for such measures . |
| 3 | The grant is awarded to pay toward the costs of a series of three workshops , the purpose of which is to disseminate 16-19 Initiative findings . |
| 4 | It appears that the unemployed are segmented into two groups each of which is accorded different treatment : those who have been unemployed for more than six months and those who have not . |
| 5 | In particular , Vol. 2 provides site accounts for individual sites , within many of which is included botanical information . |
| 6 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 7 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 8 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 9 | In an interview on Sept. 29 , Kotai rejected ( i ) the document 's call for " the consolidation of what is called socialist property " ; and ( ii ) references to " the gaining ground of revanchism , neo-fascism and neo-Nazism in " certain countries ' " , which Kotai said implicitly but wrongly included West Germany . |
| 10 | we must ask whose opinions in the classroom setting are crucial in the judgment of what is deemed proper action . |
| 11 | Neither of us is making much sense of this right now . |
| 12 | ‘ It is with what is called new age travellers . ’ |
| 13 | I had never consciously associated with what is called complementary medicine , and as the reader will have discovered , I have had little to do with any form of medicine . |
| 14 | An equally fine cross eluded two covering defenders and Byrne , timing his advance to perfection to avoid a linesman 's offside flag , finished with what is becoming customary aplomb . |
| 15 | Now the the annual assembly has challenged us to engage in what is called integrated trading . |
| 16 | In most mainframe mapping packages it is possible to produce the map in what is called device-independent form , so that it can be output to any suitable peripheral such as a plotter , a graphics display terminal or a film writer . |
| 17 | One of these is that it is easier to do the sum if one deals with histories in what is called imaginary time rather than in ordinary , real time . |
| 18 | The baby universes that take the particles that fell into the hole occur in what is called imaginary time . |
| 19 | The only way around these is the following peculiar prescription : One must add up the waves for particle histories that are not in the " real " time that you and I experience but take place in what is called imaginary time . |
| 20 | broken pieces of old ships on which is found certain spume or froth , which in time breedeth into shells , and the fish which is hatched therefrom is in shape and habit like a bird … |
| 21 | For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour , which is Christ the Lord . |
| 22 | For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord . ’ |
| 23 | The determination whether objectives can be ‘ better ’ achieved by the Community obviously involves a comparative judgment , and the question arises as to who is to make that judgment and whether it is justiciable . |
| 24 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 25 | This is the ideology which validates decisions on what is considered valuable knowledge , leading to assumptions which Keddie sees as fostering the myth of cultural deprivation . |
| 26 | You have the , a little passage that goes through what is called mini cafe , and just there at the corner is a very big . |
| 27 | The first is through what is called direct response — where people volunteer information about themselves . |
| 28 | Logs of coniferous trees are ground down to produce a cellulose fibre for what is called mechanical wood pulp , used to make cheap paper such as newsprint . |
| 29 | There can be little doubt that liberalization ( by which is meant effective restriction of the colonial trade to a larger number of Spanish merchants than under the old system ) greatly increased the volume and the proportion of Spanish goods in the legal trade , and therefore acted as a direct stimulant to industrial and commercial revival . |
| 30 | The record temperature for a plasma , 80 million degrees , was established in Princeton by what is called neutral injection heating . |