Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is sitting behind a horseshoe-shaped desk with long tables extending to either side on which are piled trays filled with baroque pearl bracelets and other new bijouterie . |
| 2 | Relevant European institutions are banks , building societies or other institutions incorporated in a Member State of the EC outside the UK , which are taking advantage of the European passport granted under the EC 's Second Banking Directive . |
| 3 | But the rapid and dramatic changes which are taking place in the world today , changes of a hopeful and not a frightening kind , could help to make a long-serving government more vulnerable to the time-for-a-change mentality . |
| 4 | This chapter outlines the main changes which are taking place in the spatial distribution of the British population and examines the migration patterns which form the principal mechanism behind these trends . |
| 5 | They comprise those who , having looked hard at the evidence , have become increasingly alarmed at the pace and the direction of the legal and institutional changes which are taking place and which culminated in the Maastricht notion of Union citizenship . |
| 6 | The radical changes which are taking place in the pensions industry mean that actuaries have a growing responsibility to ensure that desirable objectives — such as easily transferable pensions — are achievable in practice . |
| 7 | In each , the researcher identifies aspects of the department 's functioning which attempt to take account of the ethnic and racial composition of local populations ; examines the issues which arise and how these are dealt with ; and explores the ways in which the department monitors and evaluates the changes which are taking place . |
| 8 | The core of this project is a detailed investigation of the processes of social , economic and political change which are taking place in a few selected villages in the area from which the majority of Pakistani settlers in Britain originate . |
| 9 | The time is opportune therefore , to study the changes which are taking place in the aims and practices of teaching history in schools . |
| 10 | Shevardnadze concluded : " I can not reconcile myself to the events which are taking place in our country and to the trials which await our people . |
| 11 | The ideological debates which surround the NHS often seem to take place in a vacuum , oblivious to the massive social , economic and technological changes which are taking place in postindustrial societies . |
| 12 | As Richards ( 1989 ) discusses , there are currently 26 out of 300 possible landfill sites in Britain which are producing energy on a commercial basis , and there is considerable scope for increased biogas production as there is in West Germany and the USA . |
| 13 | As Europe moves to become a single market , does it make any sense that Britain should be closing coal mines which are producing coal far cheaper than those in west Germany ? |
| 14 | The back wall of the First Church is littered with scrap pieces of paper on which are written things like PLEASE HELP AUNTIE JOAN THROUGH THIS PHASE OF THE TREATMENT or DEAR GOD , HELP ALL THE PEOPLE I SAW ON WATERLOO STATION THIS WEEKEND AND PRAY FOR ALL , ALIVE AND DECEASED , AT 110 HOLDEN ROAD , FINCHLEY . |
| 15 | In the shadow of the chimneys which are bringing prosperity for some they eke out whatever living they can . |
| 16 | These are policies which are invested part in the with-profits fund and part in a range of unit-linked funds ( which resemble unit trusts ) . |
| 17 | That said , any which are operating subsidiaries in the US might care to note that , for all the strictness of securities laws over there , a survey in 1990 found that more than 60 per cent of claims come from sources other than shareholders . |
| 18 | Here three roads meet , all of which are signposted Funchal . |
| 19 | * A comment ( not in itself a complete clause ) about the main clause — like the comments in italics below , which may include indications of time , place and manner ( and which are called ADVERBIALS ) : Whenever she leaves the house , the heroine seems to become bolder . |
| 20 | A series of small , cysteine rich peptides that contain -arg-gly-asp- ( which are called disintegrins ) has been identified in viper venom . |
| 21 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 22 | Erm which are called elegies , just to confuse you . |
| 23 | For one motive that drives men to commit a real crime there are a thousand that drives them to commit those indifferent acts which are called crimes by bad laws ; and if the probability of crimes is proportionate to the number of motives , to enlarge the sphere of crimes is to increase the probability of their being committed ( p. 94 ) . |
| 24 | Within our society are groups which are called opinion formers because they influence the opinions of many other people . |
| 25 | The skin and all body orifices are colonised with microorganisms shortly after birth ; indeed , the body acts as ‘ host ’ to these microorganisms which are called commensals , and are referred to as the body 's natural or resident flora . |
| 26 | In an X-ray pattern produced by a semicrystalline polymer , the discrete maxima observed arise from the scattering by small regions of three-dimensional order , which are called crystallites . |
| 27 | And you can start on the new water tablets which are called Frusamide on Thursday . |
| 28 | Transfer of impulses from neuron to neuron takes place at junctions between axons and dendrites , which are called synapses . |
| 29 | These include special linking devices such as however , nevertheless , because , and moreover which are called conjunctions . |
| 30 | Could I just conclude Moderator by saying that those who are engaged in ACTS the churches which are participating members of this action of churches together in Scotland are engaged in a journey together . |