Example sentences of "which [be] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 2 | This facility for associations which are neither obvious nor apparently logical is extremely valuable in creative thinking and problem solving . |
| 3 | The PAS-score approach however , can readily be used to identify companies which are financially sound and thus good credit risks , but where conventional analysis may have misread the situation . |
| 4 | It seems if we agree to these new constituents coming through , we 'll only do it by having additional buildings which are utterly wasteful and quite honestly Mr Deputy Speaker , I think you 'll your constituents a very distressed indeed about the waste , the fraud and the mismanagement of the E C , of course Sir . |
| 5 | Start to phase out nuclear fission power stations , which are prohibitively expensive and potentially hazardous . |
| 6 | So long as we are dealing with materials which are approximately elastic and approximately homogeneous this is virtually the whole story as far as strength and brittleness are concerned . |
| 7 | Many utterances can be parsed in a number of ways which are phonemically similar though lexically different . |
| 8 | As we have written elsewhere , these terms have subtle differences in meaning , which are partly semantic but partly reflect different views . |
| 9 | Certain arts which are not profitable or even viable in market terms are sustained by specific institutions such as foundations , by organizations of subscribers , and still by some private patronage . |
| 10 | None of the questions highlighted above by Bukharin can be abstracted from state policies in a Soviet type economy , even that of the mid-1920s , therefore once one had made a few generalisations about the need to transfer surplus from the private sector to the state sector of the economy , all else came down to precise policies which are not self-regulating but consciously decided upon . |
| 11 | Whatever the aspirations of the corporate planners , most of the attempts to develop corporate objectives and goals ( whether in structure plans or corporate documents ) have ended up as bland statements of intent , which are either unachievable or virtually meaningless . |
| 12 | There are other diagnostic tests for hyponymy which are either discriminatory but insufficiently general , or general but insufficiently discriminatory . |
| 13 | Martinon 's performances of the four earlier Symphonies are if anything even better : wholly persuasive readings of works which are very little-known but certainly deserve to be heard . |
| 14 | Some teenage mothers complain bitterly about the attitudes and treatment they receive in antenatal clinics and classes and in hospital , which are sometimes patronising and even rude . |
| 15 | Is it therefore possible to separate out those aspects of ‘ Motherese ’ which make a positive contribution to language learning from those which are merely incidental and possibly those which are actually detrimental ? |
| 16 | What is especially interesting about such systems is the possibility that experiments can be constructed which are sufficiently simple and close to theoretical models that routes to chaos can be studied in detail . |
| 17 | In British English , examples of this are [ h ] -dropping and glottalling , which are regionally widespread and usually marked for social status or style . |
| 18 | This increases soil acidity , and encourages trees to form shallow roots , which are less efficient and more prone to the effects of drought . |
| 19 | Another approach is to try to fix the race by removing some of the uncertainty , using primitives which are less informative but more robust . |
| 20 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 21 | Such restrictions , which are quite common but strictly construed , limit the company 's actual authority to deal with its assets and accordingly remove the basis on which floating charges are postponed to later charges . |
| 22 | To attract that inward investment to provide local jobs it 's necessary for North Yorkshire to have one or more sites which are as available and as attractive as competing locations . |
| 23 | And you get the reality too of mountain roads , some of which are permanently rough and excitingly narrow , with fierce gradients and many blind bends . |
| 24 | In such areas we discover a whole lived ‘ colouring ’ , and a wide area of actual social practice , which are culturally specific and thus analytically indispensable . |
| 25 | Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ? |
| 26 | Psychologists speculate that much of the current dissatisfaction with the economy is caused by the presence of previously unattainable consumer products like VCRs , which are now available but still too expensive for most Poles . |
| 27 | He devised a set of heavy draft horse casting hobbles which are now outmoded but still bear his name . |
| 28 | Living too far away from things : a ) does n't do anything at all , b ) extends the nose so much that it sags and closes down , c ) allows the nose to examine other things which are too close and therefore blunts it again . |
| 29 | It would be desirable to be able to discard those candidates which are too short or too long to be the correct word — this would reduce the number of candidate words to be considered for further processing . |
| 30 | Firstly , there is the intrusion of ill-designed new buildings in sensitive parts of the high street : buildings which are too high and too wide , which break with traditional floor levels and introduce large dead areas over the shopface . |