Example sentences of "which [prep] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be the case where an offer is made by one side which during the visit is accepted by the other . |
| 2 | But for our present purposes , its interest is that it locates stylistic significance in the ideational function of language ; that is , in the cognitive meaning or sense which for the dualist is the invariant factor of content rather than the variable factor of style . |
| 3 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 4 | And Dounreay , which for the moment is the major employer of highly trained and specialised employees ; wage packets are accordingly high . |
| 5 | They themselves might ‘ motor ’ down to their country retreat at the weekends but they looked with signal disfavour on the idea that the vast mass of the populace might enjoy a similar mobility and have access to pleasures which for the moment were peculiarly their own . |
| 6 | For later he also believed that the motor accident and its consequences could have destroyed his morale but for the tranquil worship of the little Oxfordshire village which for the time was his base . |
| 7 | But there may be legitimate reasons for incorporating a company which is intended to remain dormant indefinitely or for retaining on the register a company which for the time being has ceased to carry on business but which the members may wish to use at some time in the future for the same or some different business . |
| 8 | Which of the family are wearing something green ? |
| 9 | The church , which is a gem of early English architecture , and which with the green is the focal point of the village , was built about twelve forty seven , aided by the treasurer of York Minster . |
| 10 | If we actually , very quickly , which round the world was meant to be , erm , those of you which are familiar with other countries , what about women in , say America , Ashley , are , are they , do they participate in the same way as they do here ? |
| 11 | Files which before the war were lucid and precise , with everything stated simply in model letters and reports , become in the fifties and sixties thin and skimped with occasional notes ‘ for the file ’ covering actions taken after lengthy phone calls in which the actual decisions were made . |
| 12 | Very strict rules apply to those drugs which in the Act are called ‘ controlled drugs ’ ; each dose has to be accounted for in a Controlled Drugs Register , whether the drug is given in hospital or in the home . |
| 13 | For , as we have seen , intermixed with the foundations of perpetual prayers — which in the Act were now declared to be " superstitious " — were the educational foundations . |
| 14 | And then I used a delay , which in the beginning was an old , modified Echoplex , to produce a single repeat . |
| 15 | Which in the sea was pretty futile really , I mean you just had to go where the sea took you . |
| 16 | Mr. Walker 's draft bye-laws were referred to a Sub-Committee — which in the event was elected the following December at the first Annual General Meeting . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , on May 14 a military helicopter circled over Riga ( Latvia 's capital ) dropping leaflets produced by the International Front calling on opponents of independence to stage a strike on May 15 , which in the event was supported by as many as 12,000 people . |
| 18 | Its name comes from the cormorants ' nests which in the past were ranged in rows along shelves in the wet black rock , like jars in a chemist 's shop . |
| 19 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |
| 20 | This problem is especially common with Classical marble statuary which in the past was often highly restored before being sold . |
| 21 | The White Park , which in the past was as much a colour type as a breed , had several representatives in Wales such as the Chartley herd and the Vaynol or Faenol Park herd at Bangor ( originally from Scotland ) . |
| 22 | She made her way to the small side gate that opened on to the alley and which in the daytime was kept permanently open so that tradesmen could make their way to the kitchens through the vegetable garden . |
| 23 | Mainly , when the air raids started which in the winter was about … the sirens used to go off … somewhere round about , what , six o'clock next morning or five o'clock . |
| 24 | It consists of a short phrase in the slow introduction to the opening movement , which in the Septet is given out in the major before being echoed in the minor , but which appears both times in the minor in the transcription . |
| 25 | The people who lived there had to rely on rainwater , which in the summer was often inadequate . |
| 26 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 27 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 28 | At the time of writing , synthetic insulin — which to the scientist is chemically identical to that secreted in the pancreas — can not be administered to diabetic people because it simply does not work ; yet pig 's insulin injected into the human body does ! |
| 29 | Ramsey 's confirmation as the new Archbishop of York was held at Lambeth on 13 March 1956 and was marked by one of those protests which to the outsider are amusing and which to the subject of the protest are vexatious . |
| 30 | At one level , policemen and women claim that they pursue all crime with equal vigour , which on the whole is true , but this formal discourse conceals the evaluations they make of different crimes . |