Example sentences of "which be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He is sitting behind a horseshoe-shaped desk with long tables extending to either side on which are piled trays filled with baroque pearl bracelets and other new bijouterie .
2 The back wall of the First Church is littered with scrap pieces of paper on which are written things like PLEASE HELP AUNTIE JOAN THROUGH THIS PHASE OF THE TREATMENT or DEAR GOD , HELP ALL THE PEOPLE I SAW ON WATERLOO STATION THIS WEEKEND AND PRAY FOR ALL , ALIVE AND DECEASED , AT 110 HOLDEN ROAD , FINCHLEY .
3 These are policies which are invested part in the with-profits fund and part in a range of unit-linked funds ( which resemble unit trusts ) .
4 Here three roads meet , all of which are signposted Funchal .
5 * A comment ( not in itself a complete clause ) about the main clause — like the comments in italics below , which may include indications of time , place and manner ( and which are called ADVERBIALS ) : Whenever she leaves the house , the heroine seems to become bolder .
6 A series of small , cysteine rich peptides that contain -arg-gly-asp- ( which are called disintegrins ) has been identified in viper venom .
7 I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles .
8 Erm which are called elegies , just to confuse you .
9 For one motive that drives men to commit a real crime there are a thousand that drives them to commit those indifferent acts which are called crimes by bad laws ; and if the probability of crimes is proportionate to the number of motives , to enlarge the sphere of crimes is to increase the probability of their being committed ( p. 94 ) .
10 Within our society are groups which are called opinion formers because they influence the opinions of many other people .
11 The skin and all body orifices are colonised with microorganisms shortly after birth ; indeed , the body acts as ‘ host ’ to these microorganisms which are called commensals , and are referred to as the body 's natural or resident flora .
12 In an X-ray pattern produced by a semicrystalline polymer , the discrete maxima observed arise from the scattering by small regions of three-dimensional order , which are called crystallites .
13 And you can start on the new water tablets which are called Frusamide on Thursday .
14 Transfer of impulses from neuron to neuron takes place at junctions between axons and dendrites , which are called synapses .
15 These include special linking devices such as however , nevertheless , because , and moreover which are called conjunctions .
16 Trait theories stress the personality of the leader above all other factors — leadership requires a range of inherited characteristics or personality traits which are given priority over the job nature and demands of the job itself .
17 Whilst there does not appear to be any universal agreement on the precise meaning to be attached to these prefixes ( compare the definitions of modern algebra in [ 71 , p. 669 ] and [ 81 , p. 702 ] ) we can fairly safely say that classical algebra is the present synonym for the theory of equations , a theory in which are manipulated symbols which invariably represent numbers , be they complex , real or rational .
18 AST Research Inc yesterday introduced the Premmia personal computer family , designed with a local-bus video subsystem claimed to yield more than 200% faster performance in Windows environments than its earlier generation Power Premium desktop systems which are cut $100 .
19 The Emperor has access ( to the room where the Council of Ministers meet ) by going through two rooms , one of which is a library and the other containing a table on which are placed newspapers , documents , etc .
20 Among its prominent features , Moneo 's centre boasts an auditorium in which are planned concerts of composers such as Eric Satie , Stockhausen , John Cage and other friends or admirers of Miró , a large reference library , a waterpool and fountain , two external murals based upon the artist 's designs and four sharply angled rooms , excavated from a space loosely designed like a star , in which the foundation 's permanent collection of works by Miró will be rotated .
21 develop informal ways of getting things done — ie. norms and rules which are different in character from the ‘ organisational manual ’ rules which are imposed organisation .
22 Top : Joel helps Rita to make some pretty cone decorations which are sprayed gold and wired together
23 The worst thing that happened to diesel recently is the allegation of carcinogenic properties.It is argued that diesel fumes contain microscopic particles of sticky carbon , on to which are attracted carcinogens that can enter the lungs .
24 The five most important values encountered for ΔJ are - 2 , - 1 , 0 , + 1 and + 2 , and these give rise to characteristic branches in vibration bands which are labelled O , P , Q , R and S ( see Table 5.4 ) .
25 This comprises , quite simply , one or more pieces of paper on which are typed details of forthcoming gigs , record releases or just general bits of news and information relating to individual artists .
26 In the future , consultancies which are established specialists in one kind of public relations service may well emerge as the most profitable of operations , just as financial PR has proven the money spinning PR speciality of the 1980s .
27 Nevertheless , the 1980s have witnessed ever-increasing use of performance indicators , some of which are unit cost statistics but many of which are output measures , albeit usually low-level output measures .
28 As a whole these wastes are estimated to have an energy equivalent of 21 million tonnes of coal , and government , industry and local authorities alike are very keen on obtaining energy from such cheap sources which are termed biofuels — fuels that come from an organic origin .
29 The second distinctive group covers the well known strip buildings which are set end-on to the road frontages , often in association with a range of specialized activities .
30 This supposed boundary of the Pacific plate almost exactly parallels what was once called the Andesite Line : a zone surrounding the Pacific , on the outer edge of which are found rocks of an andesitic — acid — variety , and within which nearly all the rocks are of a more basic kind , using the word in its chemical sense .
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