Example sentences of "which [am/are] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whether the image of an ice cream cone or a hamburger is good or bad is not too big an issue but when it comes to nuclear weapons and political events which affect not only the happiness of countless people but which are also a matter of life and death , does it help to avoid value judgements ?
2 There is certainly a continuing interest in Ankara in irredentist Turkish claims on Kirkuk and Mosul in northern Iraq , which are in the homeland 5m Kurds and which are also the centre of Iraq 's northern oil fields .
3 They all study Building Services Engineering , known as BSE , which are also the initials for mad cow disease .
4 Its basis lies , significantly , in ‘ pythons in the stomach ’ which are also the source of witchcraft .
5 The same could be said of most of these awards , which are simply a perk of the post , along with the £60,000 or £70,000 salary , retirement at sixty , and an index-linked pension thereafter .
6 Interestingly , anti-racist proposals very often assume whites suffer from a cultural deficit , i.e. from racist attitudes which are simply a legacy from imperialism and colonialism ( Swann Report , 1985 ) ; an unfortunate ignorance which schools can remedy .
7 The single philosophic-religious poem is 146 : While we can easily relate this sonnet to the meditative tradition , or to Stoic-Christian mortification patterns , it is an outsider in the Sonnets , which are otherwise a collection of love-poems .
8 Custodial Investments are essentially bearer instruments and readily disposable investments held for a client and which are neither the subject of a discretionary management agreement nor held in connection with any personal appointment and which the firm can sell without the client needing to authorise such sale .
9 ( 1 ) incomplete adaptation — since not all features of JC would be sufficiently salient to be " noticeable " for the purposes of adaptation , some of these would " slip through " and would fail to be adapted ( 2 ) inconsistency — due to possible learning or memory constraints , or perhaps for other reasons not well understood , some adaptations would be made haphazardly , so that the same item might appear sometimes in its LE variant , sometimes in its JC form ( 3 ) misadaptation — where the systems of JC and LE differ in such a way that adapting correctly requires recognising a contrast that exists in JC but not in LE , we would expect LE speakers to " get it wrong " some of the time , creating forms which are neither the target ( JC ) nor LE .
10 If you 're buying them as young plants which are probably a foot fifteen inches high then it takes them a couple of years to get the roots established .
11 So I thought we could look at results now , which are probably the thing that 's most interesting .
12 It is a duty for public officials to advise , when called upon to do so , on policy choices which are ultimately the responsibility of political executives .
13 Crystal ( 1969 ) defines paralinguistic features as : ‘ … vocal effects which are primarily the result of physiological mechanisms other than the vocal cords , such as the direct results of the workings of the pharyngeal , oral or nasal cavities ’ but this does not seem to me to fit the facts .
14 But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable .
15 It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts .
16 It is easy to be cynical and think that new prospective customers will only give you their favourite trade references ; which are just the ones you do n't want .
17 Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup .
18 Some large enterprises with many component ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ also have ‘ internal ’ banks , which are largely a means of pooling enterprise liquidity .
19 Do you have arguments which are largely the result of a clash of views , or do you use arguments to clarify actions or values ?
20 One misty autumn morning I drove out to the monastery for a look , crunching along lanes covered in empty chestnut husks , which are already an indication of Benedictines ahead , since Benedictines always plant chestnut trees by their buildings .
21 It is the associations rather than individual local authorities which are invariably the point of contact between centre and localities .
22 The systematic answers reveal that love is essentially in the inner heart of man not in works , which are merely a sign of love , though it is true that " luf wil noght be ydel : it es wirkand som gude evermare " ( 111.96 – 7 ) .
23 The sum of each party 's constituency members and additional members is proportionate to its share of the party-list votes , which are consequently the votes that determine the political composition of the Bundestag .
24 Learned behaviour in any particular society includes those ideas , techniques and habits which are passed on by one generation to another — in a sense , a social heritage — and which are virtually a set of solutions to problems that , in the course of time , others have met and solved before .
25 The latter quality is expressed by the precision of the design with its almost hard , linear effects , which are quite a contrast to Ramsay 's later use of sfumato .
26 I 'm referring of course to budget acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments , which are often the starting place for the next generation of guitar hero or hobbyist , or where electric guitar players look for an inexpensive diversion into arguably more expressive sounds .
27 In examining an unregistered title it 's a help to make " Notes on Title " , which are really an abstract of the abstract .
28 Allowing for unseen problems , which are always a factor in the unstable Middle East , it is likely to be 10–14 years before the power is switched on .
29 All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink .
30 Surely he would not dare to ask that Akram and Waquar Younis be permitted 25 overs each and that a little life be left in pitches which are now the equivalent of a moribund second-day Test strip ?
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