Example sentences of "which [noun pl] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would give a better idea of the effectiveness of co-operation if the public had a chance to look at the frequency with which bombs are transported into Northern Ireland in vehicles stolen in the Republic . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , increased delegation will depend on government carving out more areas of activity for which authorities are seen to be responsible , and central intervention is improper . |
| 3 | However , while agreeing with Bolinger in almost every instance on his raw data , as to which adjectives are limited to prenominal position and which are ambiguous , we disagree with him in almost all cases as to the underlying reasons . |
| 4 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 5 | Another important and appealing factor of these sales is the degree to which objects are featured in ‘ mainstream ’ publicity-generating sales . |
| 6 | Sometimes this uncertainty is due to ignorance of the contents of the records and the way in which objects are referred to , particularly in large and varied collections . |
| 7 | Propositions , therefore , in which objects are referred to a class , because they possess the attributes constituting the class , are so far from asserting nothing but resemblance at all … |
| 8 | In a similar way , the idea of plurality can not be defined in terms of the conditions under which objects are differentiated from each other . |
| 9 | The academics ' letter to The Independent , for which signatures were gathered over the past fortnight , expressed dismay at the damage it said had been inflicted on universities and polytechnics since 1979 . |
| 10 | At the federal level the highest organ of state authority is the bicameral Federal Assembly , comprising the Chamber of the People ( 101 seats for the Czech Lands and 49 seats for Slovakia ) , and the Chamber of Nations ( 75 seats for each republic ) , to which deputies are elected by universal adult suffrage . |
| 11 | There is little , if any , analysis of why particular attitudes and behaviours have developed , of the ways in which cultures are related to and continuously reinforced by the wider structural position of particular groups ; the ways in which cultures can be a rational response to the social position of groups at a particular time . |
| 12 | Transformational-generative grammar ( T-grammar ) A grammar in which transformations are included among the rules , by which the set of grammatical items are specified , is called a transformational-generative , transformation or T-G grammar . |
| 13 | Although open to misinterpretation , this at least in principle shows the extent to which employers were hunting for workers . |
| 14 | The repeal of the sedition statute failed to avert a march by 10,000 students through Taipei on March 20 , during which calls were made for the resignation of the Prime Minister , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun . |
| 15 | Darrow and Govan were the first to identify with any certainty which ions were lost in diarrhoea and the quantities involved , thereby enabling them to state accurately the required make-up of an intravenous infusion aimed at replacing lost nutrients . |
| 16 | It concluded that , ‘ The speed with which cases are brought to trial is in our view determined almost entirely by the volume of business and the resources available to deal with it . ’ |
| 17 | On the floor was a large flat sheet of steel on which patterns were drawn in chalk . |
| 18 | I therefore propose that Coopers and Lybrand be and are hereby appointed auditors to the company , to hold office from the conclusion of this meeting until the conclusion of the next meeting er , of the company at which accounts are laid for the company in accordance with section two four one Companies Act Nineteen Eighty Five and that their remuneration for this period be fixed by the directors . |
| 19 | To re-appoint Price Waterhouse as Auditors of the Company to hold office until the next general meeting at which Accounts are laid before the Company and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration . |
| 20 | The Company is required to appoint auditors at each general meeting at which accounts are laid before the Company to hold office until the next such meeting . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) In the tradition of Weber , legitimacy has been defined as ‘ the degree to which institutions are valued for themselves and considered right and proper ’ . |
| 22 | a street gambling game in which pennies are pitched at a target , the player whose coin lands nearest to it having the right to then toss all the coins in the air and claim all those that fall face upwards . |
| 23 | Children should be enabled to understand the codes and conventions by which meanings are represented in documentary and fictional accounts , narrative and argumentative texts , and so on . |
| 24 | This ability to use gestures and to engage in symbolic play is considered a necessary precursor to the child 's understanding of the way in which meanings are represented in words and sentences . |
| 25 | I would not wish here to be thought to be saying more than I am saying : my phrasing of the proposition is intended to stress the negotiation by which meanings are shared among us — not to presuppose some innate psycholinguistic stratum which can be laid bare by mere exposure to the ebb and flow of the dialectic . |
| 26 | Social conventions would clearly be of little use if only a small proportion of members was aware of them , and the same holds for the interpretative rules which guide the manner in which meanings are attached to objects and situations . |
| 27 | His original mind and interests in music , linguistics and the human voice led him to study the problems of deaf education and to invent " The New Sign Language , " in which every sign was a pantomimic version of the spoken word and in which signs were made in the same order and in the same sequel as the words of normal speech . |
| 28 | In pollination , the target for pollen is a stigma , which pollinators are encouraged by a number of lures and mechanical devices to brush , whereas the target sites for seeds are particular points suited to germination . |
| 29 | The second requires a social psychology of the symbolic universe in which acts are endowed with meaning and the commonsense accounts which are offered within such a universe to render the imposed concept of deviance intelligible . |
| 30 | It will be argued that despite the obvious impact of government policy , the way in which policies are converted into practice within the enterprise and the precise form they take are problematic . |