Example sentences of "which [adj] [noun pl] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were few potential trouble spots , in which British forces were likely to be involved , that were not reasonably close to the sea ; and naval forces had the advantage of being able to lie out of sight over the horizon during periods of tension . |
| 2 | The programme has examined the extent to which different variables are sensitive to changes in the level of clustering . |
| 3 | Unions in state enterprises operate in an environment in which corporate objectives are subject to continuous renegotiation and intervention by fragmented political authorities outside the corporation . |
| 4 | These allied to an apprehension of the uselessness of qualifications anyway — blackness being seen as the immovable obstacle to career progress — produce a situation in which black kids are receptive to alternatives , to different life plans . |
| 5 | ‘ The result , ’ Lehmann has written , ‘ surprised my expectations : a series of tail-pieces in which classical motifs were married to John 's romantic lyrical fantasy . ’ |
| 6 | What is more important is to discover the causes of delay , without which general conclusions are likely to be unhelpful . |