Example sentences of "which is [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is ‘ a conflict ’ with USL , says Unix Solutions Ltd , which is seeking legal advice on the matter . |
| 2 | Barrie Lamb stated that the job would have been completed earlier had DRPS not been diverted into rescuing additional rolling stock such as their current working steam loco , a Peckett 0-4-0 ST which is undergoing extensive winter repairs . |
| 3 | Given the comments of the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , when he was Secretary of State for the Environment , that national parks were the jewels in the crown , does the Minister not think it fair that that should apply to the entire United Kingdom , not least to my constituency which contains Loch Lomond which is facing ecological disaster as a result of the political intransigence of the blockheads in the Scottish Office in Edinburgh ? |
| 4 | Areas facing irreparable damage include the Dee estuary in Wales where port , road and recreational development and pollution threaten 105,000 birds ; the Wash , where 260,000 birds are threatened by industrial development , an airport and oil refining ; the Mersey , where a tidal barrage and airport development threaten about 60,000 birds ; and the Thames , including the Medway and Swale , which is facing immediate damage from development and pollution threatening 177,000 birds . |
| 5 | You betray an ironic and unfair image of a decent country which is facing difficult times when you refer ( December 1st ) to Colombia 's ‘ worn out political system ’ ; to its ‘ corrupt and self-serving political elite ’ ; to assassination as ‘ the usual fate of Colombian reformers ’ ; and to drug traffickers ‘ who will get lighter terms in Colombia 's porous prisons in return for squealing on their colleagues . ’ |
| 6 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 7 | Siemens AG has now acknowledged that it is looking for a strategic partner for its troubled Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , which is facing growing woes over the next couple of years now that the German economy is plunging into what threatens to be deep recession . |
| 8 | The Apple-Novell effort is said to have the blessing of Intel Corp , which is providing technical assistance and compatibility testing . |
| 9 | Or one other word which is to say that sponsorship is enabling because if you go into a partnership like A B S A it enables you to get the gov similar government funding . |
| 10 | In the old days , which is to say five years ago or so , the phrase you would most often hear issuing from the yet-to-be father was , ‘ Yes , of course we 'll have children . |
| 11 | The difference between causal circumstances and their effects , further , is what distinguishes causal circumstances and effects from other things also in nomic connection , which is to say nomic correlates . |
| 12 | The idea that mental events are physical , however , is not the idea , whether true or false , that mental events are in fact identical with the particular kind of physical events with which they have often been and are still identified , which is to say neural events . |
| 13 | Such pairs of things are like a causal circumstance and its effect in that they stand in fundamental nomic or necessary connection ( 1.3 ) , which is to say some connection stated by an independent nomic conditional statement . |
| 14 | A table , chart , or programme , in this sense , is not a tape or a disc but a sequence of Propositions , which is to say abstract objects . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 'm not convinced that Genesis are doing stuff which is breaking new ground so much now . |
| 16 | It is terminated by an Arch , through which is seen other Arches with close Arbors , and a row of Trees to the end of the View . |
| 17 | Thus the implication is that if the State Department issues a mild statement in response to an issue which is provoking inflammatory articles and speeches in the press and Congress ( for example , over the Agrarian Reform Law ) , then it is simply that the government is hiding its ’ real' intentions in order to deceive . |
| 18 | ‘ At least fifty per cent of which is documented historical fact , you claim that yourself at the beginning of the book . ’ |
| 19 | Microvitec 's first user is London-based International Petroleum Exchange , an oil futures and options company , which is to install 50 AlphaWindows terminals in September . |
| 20 | It has a 38kW gas-fuelled unit from Combined Power Systems which is achieving net savings of £2,700 on energy bills with an annual gross electricity cost reduction of 61% . |
| 21 | Although the disability movement has taken the initiative in articulating this shift , it is a shift which is affecting all sides of the disability issue . |
| 22 | Again this contributes to a continuing shift from manual to non-manual occupations which is affecting most parts of the economy . |
| 23 | The reason why there is so little progress is horribly tangled up in the overall failure of Italy 's public life , a failure which is arousing mounting concern among her EC partners . |
| 24 | I 've forgotten my new year 's resolution which is to use christian names . |
| 25 | The European rabbit is also important in the diet of the feral mink , which is given little credit for culling this acknowledged pest . |
| 26 | The other area which is given detailed attention in the Protocol is that of responsibility for costs and expenses ; the text comes close to adopting the principles used in the Hague Convention , but practice is rather different . |
| 27 | Lash and Urry argue that postmodern culture nevertheless particularly benefits the ‘ service class ’ of senior white collar workers : a group which is given special attention in Chapter 1 . |
| 28 | The 55-year-old coach of Grove Athletics Club has already begun her new role by encouraging local sporting and musical groups to consider visits to Mari and has formed a link with a Wantage-based company , Autotype International , which is sending two executives to Mari El in July . |
| 29 | An RAF station which is to close this year has said farewell to its last jet fighter . |
| 30 | It will use a similar technique to that currently being used by a Japanese group , which is monitoring solar neutrino reactions with water . |