Example sentences of "[noun pl] which be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the potential risks condition the number given in brackets after the total is the number of those potential risks which were matched by at least one description in the same five second section . |
| 2 | Often , it was not only the arts which were seen as less useful , but university subjects like physics : the physical science degree was regarded as one which was more useful for getting jobs in industry . |
| 3 | There are also personality characteristics which are manifested both as strengths and weaknesses . |
| 4 | The findings suggest that , although there is an interacting effect between the two , many of the fundamental characteristics which are shared by all the cross-national systems investigated for that industry are the result of a common response to modern technological development and mechanised factory production . |
| 5 | Descriptions of their behaviour show how many of the characteristics which are considered natural or essentially human are not instinctive but learnt , indicating the necessity of human contact and care for the development of social behaviour and for the development of fundamental human faculties . |
| 6 | Characteristics which were found to be statistically significant in their relation to manufacturing employment change were deemed to be contributory causes of it . |
| 7 | Traditionally , individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime , but unfortunately for criminology , it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations . |
| 8 | At recent book fairs in London and Florence , publishers were not even able to make use of stands which were provided for free , since they simply had nothing to show . |
| 9 | Pets which are kept in school can reinforce this interest and there are many incidental mathematical experiences involved in their care — water containers may be filled and emptied , more water may be needed , or a certain number of leaves may be fed to the pet and so on . |
| 10 | Not sufficient study , to my mind , has been made of the pets which were kept at Croisset . |
| 11 | Our three pictures marked A , B and C show scenes from three popular TV soaps which are based on three public services . |
| 12 | 11.2 In relation to commercial exploitation the Non-academic Parties and the Academic Parties agree that the terms and conditions for exploitation of and licenses granted under intellectual property rights in results deriving from the Academic Parties shall have regard to the extent to which such results are incorporated in or applied to the manufacture of commercially exploited products ( particularly where there had been substantial product development outside the project ) and to the SERC guidelines which are set out in a letter from SERC dated 13 August 1984 , together with its attachments . |
| 13 | Since humans have no instincts to direct their actions , their behaviour must be based on guidelines which are learned . |
| 14 | Doyle believes it is mainly down to the quality of the songs which are submitted . |
| 15 | A new hymn book , Baptist Praise and Worship ( Oxford University Press ) was published in 1991 , including many newer hymns , together with a good number of worship songs which are becoming increasingly popular . |
| 16 | They had engaged soldiers for a year , but had been deprived by the truce of most of the ransoms which were to pay the troops ' wages for the second half of the year . |
| 17 | John Gadsby who travelled across France in 1855 found that he needed two greatcoats and a large travelling wrapper to keep himself warm even though the carriage was supplied with hot footwarmers which were renewed at certain stops along the route . |
| 18 | Ears which are turned to the side and are at ‘ half mast ’ indicate that the horse is relaxed , and therefore does not feel the need to listen out for danger . |
| 19 | Farm animals which are kept in bare pens are generally worse off than farm animals which are kept in pens with straw , both because straw can be used as bedding and because straw is a material which the animal can manipulate . |
| 20 | Farm animals which are kept in bare pens are generally worse off than farm animals which are kept in pens with straw , both because straw can be used as bedding and because straw is a material which the animal can manipulate . |
| 21 | However , there is also no doubt that if you hunt animals — let's say by shooting them — a high proportion of the animals which are hunted will not die instantaneously . |
| 22 | So the welfare of wild animals which are killed is generally rather poor until they die . |
| 23 | This point concerns slaughter , which has been mentioned already ; however , I would just mention that as far as religious slaughter is concerned , recent research makes it absolutely clear that animals which are killed by cutting their throats can go for between 15 and 120 seconds able to detect what is going on around them . |
| 24 | It is something that many people would not like to see , but there is no question that a high proportion of animals which are shot will carry lead shot for a while , will die after a long period — in many cases days or weeks — and there is a substantial amount of suffering when this happens . |
| 25 | These limits have given rise to thorny debate in at least two areas which serve as a reminder that it is not only nonhuman animals which are put at risk : |
| 26 | I AM writing on behalf of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) to ask your readers to support the Walk For Laboratory Animals which is happening on |
| 27 | Around a hundred and fifty animals which were threatened with slaughter have been saved . |
| 28 | Some important headmen in Kandyan districts owned hundreds of animals which were spread over several villages . |
| 29 | It 's a little bit slow on the A43 this evening at Weston on the Green , it 's because of the roadworks which are going on tonight ; other than that , no serious delays to report , just between the city flow of traffic around the ring road , certainly around the Oxford City centre as well as out on to the A43 , the 423 , the 34 as usual . |
| 30 | Modern gliders usually have spring-loaded caps which are pulled down firmly to prevent air leaking into or out of the wing . |