Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [Wh det] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence fair play , one of the rules of which is that the eventual murderer shall be one of a small group , delimited in some way . |
| 2 | The tribunal then decides whether to issue an ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ warning to either party , the result of which is that if that party persists with the claim or a contention as part of a claim at the hearing , and loses , then costs may be awarded against that party . |
| 3 | Superman ( Christopher Reeve ) himself was sometimes hung by wires ( the disadvantage of which is that they might have to be matted out frame by frame by hand ) or supported on a hydraulic arm that came out of the screen at 90° and which , like his shadow , was hidden by his body . |
| 4 | The Exhibitors Film Exchange recommends a ‘ Neighbourhood Advertising Plan ’ , the essence of which was that every manager would define ‘ the radius or zone ’ from which his ‘ logical business ’ was secured and that he should then proceed to go directly to the individuals whose patronage he could reasonably expect . |
| 5 | The section resolves the point , although the question of what is or is not immediate is , of course , still a matter of degree . |
| 6 | The rigours of testing do not end next week as eight people , chosen by the Soviets and the British , will be taken to a Soviet hospital for further tests , the nature of which is as yet unclear . |
| 7 | The point of which is that , with a limited pool of capital , any increase for one must be at the expense of another . |
| 8 | According to Hazlitt , ‘ Man is the only species who can laugh or cry because he is the only being who knows the difference between what is and what should be ’ . |
| 9 | In oral cultures , he claims : ‘ The individual has little perception of the past except in terms of the present ; whereas an analysis of a literate society can not but enforce a more objective recognition of the distinction between what was and what is ’ ( 1968 , p. 34 ) ( my emphasis ) . |
| 10 | A fourth and very important influence on the rate of recorded crime is the effect of changes in the law , which may lead to an alteration in the definition of what is or is not a crime . |
| 11 | The Doctrine of Signatures became fashionable , the theory of which was that plants which looked like the symptoms of an illness would cure it — lungwort or pulmonaria is a case in point , since it was used for lung conditions , because its white-spotted leaves were thought to bear some resemblance to diseased lungs . |
| 12 | Inevitably , the boundaries of what was and was not considered permissible in village life were much clearer in the nineteenth century , as they were in Victorian society generally . |
| 13 | Inevitably the boundaries of what was and was not considered permissible in village life were much clearer in the nineteenth century , as they were in Victorian society generally . |
| 14 | One is to conceive of them as being deliberately designed for the purposes they serve , the implication of which is that we should be constantly reforming existing institutions so that they may better serve those ends for which they were intended . |
| 15 | It amounts , in short , to a rejection of the unmediated , dogmatic view of literature as preached by Stalin , Zhdanov , Radek and Stetsky in 1934 , the implication of which is that the task of literature is primarily to serve immediate propagandist ends , and the adoption of a more sensitive cultural perspective which distances literature from ideology , grants greater specificity to literary production , and in the process provides a richer , more complex and refracted view of social reality . |
| 16 | The next three classes beneath the class — the Sahn , the and the — also may choose kadiliks or the next higher rank of medrese , but in these cases the option of choosing a kadilik is expressed in variants of the following phrase : " if [ the muderrises ] become poor and choose office [ as kadi ] … " , the implication of which is that they would not otherwise do so . |
| 17 | Speculations on their origins , in what he called ‘ an essay in geopoetry ’ , led Hess to outline the concept of sea-floor spreading , the gist of which is as follows . |
| 18 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 19 | All went to plan , until he was delayed by a revolution in Venezuela , the consequences of which were that Stewart missed the replay which Casuals lost 4–1 . |