Example sentences of "which be [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On polling day , the elector is faced with a small ballot slip on which are printed the names usually of only three or four candidates ( Six or more candidates standing in any one constituency would be unusual . ) |
| 2 | Because of this , foreign currency mortgages , which are being sold very heavily at the moment by financial intermediaries ( linked to banks and other financial institutions which are providing the funds ) , are only for the financially sophisticated . |
| 3 | It consists of one huge room with a hemispherical vault on which are displayed the stars and planets . |
| 4 | It now seems likely that the eukaryotic cell itself — the basic structure from which are constructed the bodies of all animals , plants , and fungi — originally evolved as a symbiotic association between various bacteria ; that is , between various different prokaryotes . |
| 5 | This is one of seven research projects sponsored by the Kings ' Fund Institute which are monitoring the reforms over a three-year period . |
| 6 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 7 | Mordovia is the cesspit into which are flushed the malcontents and malefactors of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 8 | These Regulations , which are entitled The Companies Act 1985 ( Accounts of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Publication of Accounts in Ecus ) Regulations 1992 ( see also ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 13 ) , came into force on 16 November 1992 . |
| 9 | Water for fulling — cleansing and thickening the cloth — and in due course for driving the industrial mills which were to replace the looms of individual home-based workers was also an important factor . |
| 10 | As the political assimilative into which were absorbed the opinions , convictions and energies which would otherwise have been available to impel Owenism and so to maximise its chances of attaining its goal , industrial democracy , the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill demands attention . |
| 11 | One of the duties occasionally assumed by the guilds was the maintenance of a charnel , a subterranean chamber into which were placed the bones of the dead disturbed when interments took place in the churchyard . |
| 12 | Between these pilasters are still visible the corbels upon which were supported the masts of the velarium which was drawn across the auditorium . |
| 13 | By 1987 , 57 local authorities were requested to submit Inner Area Programmes which were to outline the objectives of Urban Programme funding , and to indicate how other funding programmes dovetailed into Urban Programme activities ( DoE , 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Moorish Spain was in fact a crucible in which were fused the contributions of diverse cultures … |
| 15 | The result of this preponderance of the ideological in the literary debate was that discussion tended to centre exclusively on recurrent programmatic themes — positive heroes , revolutionary romanticism , partisanship , tendentiousness , and so on — in which were sown the seeds of a sterile , bureaucratic and immobile aesthetic theory unable to adapt to changing socio-political conditions , capable only of mouthing the current party line . |
| 16 | They had engaged soldiers for a year , but had been deprived by the truce of most of the ransoms which were to pay the troops ' wages for the second half of the year . |
| 17 | Attracted by the prospect of work during industrial expansion they migrated in their tens of thousands from the environs of East London and the eastern counties , both of which were suffering the effects of economic recession . |
| 18 | The sea , in which were reflected the lights of the promenade , surged uneasily around the sides of the chair , covering Baker 's black brogues with a film of sand . |
| 19 | It was in cities such as Rome , Venice , Florence and Verona that the Renaissance started — the re-awakening of the arts , new directions in painting and architecture — movements which were to span the continents and leave a legacy of culture unequalled anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | There were no hard-porn videos available on the activities of The Fox at the time this new offender was committing his offence , only the soft-porn reporting of the popular newspapers , which were describing the atrocities with such vivid detail as they occurred . |
| 21 | The comprehensive nature of the local groups is evident from a list of their duties , which were to focus the efforts of different agencies dealing with juvenile employment ; to organize methods of collecting information about the character , education , and home life of school-leavers , usually with the assistance of teachers and school care committees ( SCCs ) ( which were under the control of the education offices ) ; to form subcommittees or rotas to attend the labour exchange for the purpose of interviewing applicants and parents ; and to organize a system of ‘ after-care ’ in co-operation with SCCs , clubs , and other similar organizations . |
| 22 | Two major Royal Commissions dealing with the issues produced reports in the early war years which were to provide the blueprints for post-war planning . |
| 23 | Rome , not Greece , prepared the conditions which were to make the relations between them such a unique affair . |
| 24 | That this House urges Her Majesty 's Government to use the decision to postpone the passage of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill as an opportunity to make a fresh start with the future development of the EEC and in particular concentrate its efforts on the chosen agenda of the British presidency which is to extend the borders of the EEC and to create a fully competitive Common Market . |
| 25 | The Science and Engineering Research Council , which is providing the funds for the equipment , will coordinate a programme in which researchers from all over the country' will send specimens to the unit . |
| 26 | Keegan spelled out the philosophy which is steering the Geordies back to the big time under multi-millionaire chairman Sir John Hall . |
| 27 | Attacking North Down and Ards Community Unit , the Alliance member said no-one would be fooled by assurances that a new meals-on-wheels service , which is replacing the meals service currently provided by home helps , would lead to quality enhancement . |
| 28 | The policy of Her Majesty 's Government , which is to support the efforts of the Secretary-General of the United Nations is the wisest policy for both the British Government and other Governments in the Community . |
| 29 | Right item three which is to receive the accounts for the year ending thirtieth September nineteen ninety two and report of the auditors . |
| 30 | Spadefoot toads have a number of anti-predator tactics , one of which is to inflate the lungs and hence the body , which may fool the snake into thinking the toad is larger than it really is and act as a deterrent . |