Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The geometrical part of that framework is demonstrable because , says Hobbes , the geometrical shapes which are its objects can be created by ourselves . |
| 2 | The debate over the owl , and the forests which are its home , has raged between the timber industry and environmentalists since the owl was listed as an endangered species in 1990 [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 3 | For all its undoubted talents , chief of which are its chassis , cabin and controls , the 300SL-24 fails to do the same . |
| 4 | President Bush 's administration has revealed its plan to save the Pacific Northwest 's spotted owl , and thereby some of the " old growth " forests which are its homeland . |
| 5 | Sales of assets ( other than assets which are themselves FSA ‘ Investments ’ ) are thus excluded . |
| 6 | The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology . |
| 7 | Centuries ago they created torsion powered and counter-weighted devices which are their equivalent of cannons , perfecting them to such a degree that they are in many ways superior to crude gunpowder weapons . |
| 8 | Locke 's distinction between complex ideas , and the simple ideas which are their component parts , copes with this . |
| 9 | I do n't agree with it because there are certainly seats there which are their responsibility which are not on this list , particularly around this memorial outside and places like that and erm quite categorically they 're theirs . |
| 10 | When the big day finally arrives , remember there are some tasks which are your responsibility . |
| 11 | Read the publications which are your target . |
| 12 | It overflows with bubbles which are our thoughts . |
| 13 | However , it remains to be seen how completely the principle of antibiosis , or chemical warfare between species , has been exploited , and whether the capacity of microbes to adapt to their environment will outstrip the capacity of man to find means of destroying not only those which are his enemies but also those which are his friends and which he unwittingly eliminates by the overzealous distribution of his new agents . |
| 14 | However , it remains to be seen how completely the principle of antibiosis , or chemical warfare between species , has been exploited , and whether the capacity of microbes to adapt to their environment will outstrip the capacity of man to find means of destroying not only those which are his enemies but also those which are his friends and which he unwittingly eliminates by the overzealous distribution of his new agents . |
| 15 | All these are inconsistent with ‘ living life ’ , the two words which are placed between inverted commas and imposed at the level of mere idea upon Notes from Underground , but which truly drive Raskolnikov , which are his need to become a man again . |
| 16 | His argumentation is diminished and made much less coherent through successive drafts of the novel , while the sheer rattle or patter of those smooth large grains which are his discourse gets carefully worked up . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps I have n't made it clear which are my ideas and which are Terence 's . |
| 18 | At such times , I wonder at my own job and the meaningless sterility of the statistics which are my trade . |
| 19 | Sociology in the final analysis existed to provide a theoretical basis for socialism and secular education which were its practice . |
| 20 | She opened the double rear doors and pointed out the two forty-five-gallon tanks which were her emergency supply if an airport closed down on her . |
| 21 | Nancy moved among them for a while , making them welcome , peering into their pale faces with the object of discovering which were her grandchildren . |
| 22 | There were also four federal councils of 165 members , which were themselves sub-councils of a big federal council of 660 ; one of these sub-councils prepared the business for the others , a job which probably rotated . |
| 23 | Unlike their counterparts in the longue durée , they were seen not so much as steady constraints with which societies had to contend over long periods , but as patterns of change which were themselves part and parcel of social life . |
| 24 | I was relatively successful and after three or four months moved into the Criminal Investigation Department , as a detective constable , pursuing local villains for the thefts , shopbreakings , burglaries , and petty frauds which were our bread and butter . |
| 25 | Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " . |
| 26 | Her nimble fingers began to caress the wrinkled pouch which was his scrotum , and to fondle the two unequal balls which were his testicles ; while her soft lips slid erotically down his shaft taking more and more of his quickly swelling cock into her sweet mouth . |
| 27 | He had been in the lighthouse business for most of his life and was chief engineer in a firm which also made other marine signals , such as buoys and tide gauges , many of which were his design . |
| 28 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 29 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 30 | The practise together in the hilly countryside of Morar which is their home . |