Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This consists of the Auditing Guideline , Communications between Auditors and Regulators under Sections 109 and 180(1) ( q ) of the Financial Services Act 1986 , which was issued in July 1990 ; and Practice Note 3 , Client Assets — Guidance to Auditors of Investment Businesses , issued in December 1990 and which has been amended to reflect recent changes in the rules relating to client money following the issue of The Financial Services ( Client Money ) Regulations 1991 . |
| 2 | ‘ Foggage ’ grazing in late autumn and winter , on the hay aftermath which has been allowed to grow tall in late summer , is still practised in some areas , but is a rather wasteful use of grass . |
| 3 | Professor Nicholas Day is the author of an unpublished Public Health Laboratory Service report on the spread of AIDS which has been expected to revise official predictions of heterosexual victims downwards . |
| 4 | Contributing to the rouble 's decline is the Russian central bank 's predilection for printing money , a big pile of which has been used to finance other CIS republics ' trade deficits with Russia . |
| 5 | Will information which has been used to determine projected levels of natural resource consumption or calculate growth indicators , such as future private car demand , be covered , for instance ? |
| 6 | Of particular interest to the incentive field is that responsibility for the administration of the LINK initiative , under which support is provided to stimulate collaborative research in key areas of science and technology , will be passed to the Office of Science and Technology . |
| 7 | The materials which had been developed embodied accepted features of good practice in adult education with an emphasis on group interaction and exchange of ideas . |
| 8 | The wider operations were the responsibility of Task Force Atlantic , which included naval forces and troops which had been sent to reinforce Southern Command earlier in the year . |
| 9 | Some time previously , he had discovered a system of cryptography — he called it the ‘ Atbash Cipher ’ — which had been used to conceal certain names in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean texts . |
| 10 | The single-storey grey stone building stood amid fields where vines and figs used to grow in abundance , but which had been left to run wild and were now covered in bright carpets of wild flowers . |
| 11 | In the case of some engines which have been adjusted to take unleaded fuel , you may be advised to fill up with one tank of leaded to every three of unleaded fuel . |
| 12 | Unlike the declaration and the injunction , which are private law remedies ( i.e. remedies for the redress of private law wrongs ) which have been extended to redress public law illegality , damages is a purely private law remedy . |
| 13 | Of the initiatives which have been undertaken to enable would-be teachers to better understand the nature of children , that pioneered by Frank Coles ( and latterly by Roger Tingle ) at the Urban Studies Centre , Poplar , East London , is perhaps one of the most significant . |
| 14 | Among the " quick fix " solutions which have been proposed to counter global warming are : placing thousand of large mirrors in space to reflect sunlight ; making aircraft engines less efficient so that soot builds up in the stratosphere , with similar effect ; dumping iron filings into the oceans to stimulate the growth of plankton , which absorbs carbon dioxide ; using lasers to break up chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere ; and firing a million tons of dust into the upper atmosphere , also with a view to reflecting solar radiation . |
| 15 | Extracting this heat involves pumping water down an injection borehole drilled from the surface , circulating it through pre-existing fractures , or joints , in the rock , which have been enlarged using high-pressure liquid , and bringing it back to the surface via a second borehole . |
| 16 | It is these laws which have been used to humiliate tired and defenceless visitors , to deport workers without even a hearing , to lock innocent people in prison and brand them criminals , and to provide employers with a work-force made powerless through legislation . |
| 17 | There are also five smaller cairns around the rim which have been found to indicate astronomical alignments . |
| 18 | Once language is described as a category of behaviour , it is possible to explain its occurrence with reference to the contingent relationships which have been shown to influence other kinds of behaviour . |
| 19 | So , for example , in the case of the passive both animacy and prior access of a particular word ( occurring when a noun is thematic ) are factors which have been shown to influence single word identification . |