Example sentences of "which [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er er simply er that the various upper case items which are listed one to twelve , are backed up in lower case script . |
| 2 | The research aims to monitor the law on illegitimacy in the light of the provisions which are to supercede it under the Family Law Reform Act 1987 . |
| 3 | Another possible version of foundationalism holds that there are some beliefs which are given us as ‘ data ’ , and which are fully justified unless something arises to defeat their justification ( cf. the use of defeasibility in 2.3 ) . |
| 4 | the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods . |
| 5 | It refers to the presence of social groups which are ranked one above the other , usually in terms of the amount of power , prestige and wealth their members possess . |
| 6 | It is made up of a number of bones ( vertebrae ) which are placed one on top of another . |
| 7 | Brian Hawker , both a spiritual director and pastoral counsellor , says , ‘ spiritual direction is dealing with eternal realities , pastoral counselling is dealing with problems in the here and now which are blocking me from looking at eternal realities ’ . |
| 8 | He made love to her with a driving desperation that matched the excesses which were to shock her in retrospect , and if his flesh bore the imprint of her nails and teeth afterwards , there were faint reciprocal marks on her body , mostly the legacy of an erotically suckling mouth . |
| 9 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 10 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 11 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 12 | Burghley Park became his study and there he formulated his religious ideas which were to alienate him from society for the rest of his life . |
| 13 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 14 | The announcement managed to elevate the NT import to the level of a strategic operating system for DEC , which is embracing it as a ‘ corporate solution ’ , language rarely heard from DEC 's mouth unless it 's talking about VAX/VMS . |
| 15 | Lucianne Goldberg Madame Cleo 's Girls ( Signet ) In it two different-coloured covers , this is a glitzy high-prostitution tale which is getting lots of hype . |
| 16 | A stop gate provides protection as the canal approaches the aqueduct which is to carry it across the River Tame ( Feb 83 guide ) and between a sewage works and an electricity substation . |
| 17 | In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative . |
| 18 | Tim Severin , a renowned adventurer and author , set off on May 13th on a ‘ China voyage ’ which is taking him from Hong Kong to California on a bamboo raft , and will produce a book of that name , published by Little , Brown , in October 1994 . |
| 19 | Wearing a tidy black suit , Palance throws his carpetbag negligently into the back of Jeff Chandler 's buggy which is to take him to the reservation . |
| 20 | I have a problem with my marine fish — in particular with a Regal Tang which is scratching itself against the tufa rock . |
| 21 | There may be another problem which is manifesting itself by making the gearbox chatter such as an out of balance engine or faulty gearbox mountings . |
| 22 | We look forward to a generous settlement in a few weeks ' time when he might deal with the London Regional Transport anomaly which is afflicting us as Members representing outer London . |
| 23 | Ordinary shares ( as the name implies ) constitute the residuary class in which is vested everything after the special rights of preference classes , if any , have been satisfied . |
| 24 | Mr Yeltsin 's dilemma is that , to continue with economic reform , he has to get rid of the present parliament , which is blocking him at every turn . |
| 25 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |
| 26 | The rest were employed at present between Stavros and Episkopi , loading and transporting the casks to the warehouses to await the arrival of the all-important galley which was to take them to Venice . |
| 27 | Milton had no intention of sharing the unpopularity which was attaching itself to Sir James and promptly referred the matter to the Solicitor-General for action , but the end result , as Mrs. Campbell pointed out , was that ‘ our Member has lost his interest in this parish and really by most of our friends in the shire ’ . |
| 28 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 29 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 30 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |