Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [vb -s] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision , following a public inquiry in February , clears the way for a controversial gipsy transit camp which has been the subject of a long-running dispute between Warrington Borough and Cheshire County councils . |
| 2 | When embalming a case which has been the subject of a post-mortem examination , there is likely to be more opportunity for formaldehyde to enter the atmosphere but care is taken to minimise this . |
| 3 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
| 4 | It is her work which has been the target of investigations by the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) and a House subcommittee chaired by Congressman John Dingell , and of less formal inquiries at MIT and Tufts University Medical School , in Boston , where she now works . |
| 5 | He announced that he was making good last year 's promise to look into the knotty question of advance corporation tax , an impost which has been the subject of a crescendo of complaints from some of Britain 's biggest companies . |
| 6 | This was the point which was most politically explosive , and this was the point which has been the cause of the greatest revilement of the book to this day . |
| 7 | Some of these processes will be documented in order to interpret the fauna from a British cave site which has been the subject of intensive study for the last ten years . |
| 8 | It is the culmination of a lengthy deliberation process which has been the hallmark of Sir Geoffrey 's rise to the position he now occupies as one of Britain 's most successful businessmen . |
| 9 | ( a ) a director or member of the body is or has been a director or member of a recognised body which has been the subject of an order or direction under paragraphs 18 or 21 of Schedule 2 to the Act or the recognition of which has been revoked under Rule 10 of these Rules or has expired under Rule 9 of these Rules ; or |
| 10 | One concept which has been the focus of much debate in evaluating efficiency is that of the ‘ Quality Adjusted Life Year ’ or QALY developed by the health economist , Alan Williams . |
| 11 | Just in this area which has been the centre of terror of erm the nazis and of the Hitler regime . |
| 12 | But it is the police crackdown which has been the crucial factor . |
| 13 | This is a topic which has been the focus of some scholarly discussion , partly because Leonardo himself is known to have visited the city in 1500 , but mainly because Vasari , in the second edition of the Lives , stated that Giorgione had been greatly impressed by some unspecified works of Leonardo 's which he had seen . |
| 14 | Land-use practices have also altered the Fijian landscape , as has been discussed by Clarke and Morrison ( 1987 ) who point out that this is the result of sugar-cane cultivation which has been the mainstay of Fiji 's economy since the 1880s . |
| 15 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 16 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |
| 17 | The conversation which follows is the last in the book , and the weakest , too , a stagey means of imparting some crucial news for Bellow to fulminate against all that is rotten and cynical in American youth . |
| 18 | All that is happening in a beautiful country which has been the holiday destination of thousands of British people over the years . |
| 19 | It is important to appreciate that the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 only applies to a dwelling house which has been the matrimonial home ( s1(10) ) . |
| 20 | Even the awkward , the misfits , the discontented , feel a lessening of their misery when they realize they have a place , specially set for them , at a dinner which has been the subject of much thought , care , and several hours of preparation . |