Example sentences of "be [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 2 | I like the region a great deal and erm am enjoying the stimulating atmosphere which I 've come into . |
| 3 | Erm , we 're , we 're using the same agenda which is why conf confusion about venue on the front cos I said to my secretary |
| 4 | Version 1.0 of the joint Microsoft Corp-Intel Corp Windows Telephony application programming interface is available immediately : some 40 companies are supporting the new standard which will enable users to gain direct access to telephone networks from database managers , personal information managers , spreadsheets , and word processors . |
| 5 | Equally I believe that local communities too must feel that the police are to them if they are to give the positive help which the police need to successfully detect and prosecute the criminals who prey on them . |
| 6 | Fortunately , computer buyers are spared the one thing which afflicts consumers of prestige-based goods : computer brand names do n't confer any status unless you 're one of those nerds who hangs out with hackers and reckons that one 's image is enhanced by owning Conner , ATI , Logitech or whatever . |
| 7 | It is a shame that you have n't been having the gorgeous autumn which we have enjoyed . |
| 8 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 9 | Cost-saving exercises may not be tackling the real problem which is the need for a structural change . |
| 10 | If this figure applied to the county as a whole then the criticisms which were used to attack progressive methods were quite unjustified ; far too few schools had embraced Plowden for them to be having the catastrophic influence which their detractors attributed to them . |
| 11 | Against this must be weighed the economic instability which will occur as countries lose the ability to manage their economies according to their own individual needs . |
| 12 | The newsletter commented : ‘ Clearly , a pretty strict observance of the new March production limits will be required to dissipate the impact of the February overhang and make any kind of a positive impression on a market which already seems to be losing the bullish tone which was in evidence after the mid-February OPEC accord . ’ |
| 13 | And after that er we shall be taking the running order which is then a sketch next , which is not cast yet |
| 14 | This is made easier by the shift in the ideological climate discussed earlier , since to be too soft on those convicted would be to prolong the permissive trend which had led to the high crime levels and the chronic economic problems . |
| 15 | It is our contention that architectural conservation should be accorded the same consideration which is already being shown to the conservation of other resources , both natural and man-made , and for the same reasons . |
| 16 | Given the history of Treasury control over financial matters , it will require a substantial cultural shift if agencies are to have the financial freedom which is crucial to the success of the project . |
| 17 | They were renouncing the wholesale cruelty which , with a uniform and general severity of punishment treated all , the unfortunate dupe as well as the designing knave , alike as guilty . |
| 18 | The continuity of education should , however , have been assured by the requirement that former chantry priests — now pensioners dependent on the Court of Augmentations — were to teach the English Bible which was now widely available to the population . |
| 19 | For centuries to come English schoolchildren were to learn the rousing chorus which followed : |
| 20 | However , when they were discussing the historical development which led to capitalism , as they do in The German Ideology and Formen , they stress , by contrast , the continuity in structure between different stages and the universality of the historical process . |
| 21 | Penda 's invasion of the territory of the eastern Angles in 635/6 or 636/7 , when he slew in battle both King Ecgric and the ex-king , Sigeberht , who had been brought out of his monastery to lead the army with Ecgric ( HE 111 , 18 ) , terminated , as far as can be seen , the exercise of royal power among the eastern Angles by the direct descendants of Raedwald ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , and made the repression of Penda 's ambition imperative if Oswald were to reconstruct the paramount position which had been Eadwine 's . |
| 22 | They were to become the crucial factor which saved the Fens from total inundation , and although not generally adopted in Somerset , they fast became a typical feature of such wetland landscapes as the Lancashire Fylde and the Hull valley . |
| 23 | This is to miss the important point which has made Kinnock master of the Labour party , as Bevan never was : Bevan was a rebel ; Kinnock is not . |
| 24 | Through the triple entrance of the outer narthex is approached the main narthex which is constructed in two storeys . |
| 25 | Brian Horton 's named the same side which took a point off top of the table Blackburn Rovers last week . |
| 26 | He 's named the same side which has started the last three games . |
| 27 | He 's named the same side which has started the last three games . |
| 28 | The general principle is called the Cooperative Principle which Grice ( 1975 : 45 ) presents in the following terms : |
| 29 | The amorphous or molten polymer is a conglomeration of badly packed interlacing chains and the extra empty space caused by this random molecular arrangement is called the free volume which essentially consists of all the holes in the matrix . |
| 30 | Another big factor , of course , is providing the proper underlay which gives the carpet extra life , and this in itself is a real investment at around £3 sq yard . |