Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [be] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to pretend that the values and standard of behaviour about which I am speaking are genteel or middle class . |
| 2 | According to that document , non-fundholding practices such as the one to which I am referring were entitled to reimbursement of computer costs from April 1990 . |
| 3 | I have my eye at the moment on the little-visited town of Amman , capital of Transjordan , which I am told is charming . |
| 4 | ‘ And I suppose you 're going to tell me that the manner in which I was dismissed was standard procedure ? ’ |
| 5 | This was all the more so , since part of the problem with which I was faced was due , as I recognized , to lack of forethought on my side , though it had been complicated by a stroke of ill-luck . |
| 6 | It turned out to be sensual depression , which I was told was different altogether . |
| 7 | Since Seia is coheir , and therefore already in receipt of a benefit under the testator 's will , the trust with which she is burdened is valid , and does not ( as in the previous case ) depend on construing a further disposition of which she is the beneficiary . |
| 8 | She knew the part for which she was cast was that of the self-sacrificing heroine , encouraging the man she loved in his spiritual aspirations ; but she withheld the words of sympathy and understanding . |
| 9 | She could literally feel it , absorbed by her pores and entering her bloodstream , an alien message of warning , invader already and threatening ownership , but the acrid flavour on which she was choking was that of her own resentment . |
| 10 | It is one of the most significant and important respects in which the recession from which we are recovering is different from all previous recessions . |
| 11 | At the end of the last chapter , it was apparent that the classification scheme which we are using is fallible . |
| 12 | Although the current rise in unemployment , now slowing down , which we are witnessing is frustrating and to some extent avoidable , the Labour party 's criticism of the Government 's record is both hypocritical and deceitful . |
| 13 | The question thus with which we are confronted is that of whether this religion can contain the new consciousness of women . |
| 14 | The consequence is that we have placebo responses to blank tablets and much stronger placebo responses to intravenous injections of saline which we are told is some new wonder drug . |
| 15 | The green left sleeve brassard carries a red-on-yellow rampant Lion of Scotland patch , which we are told is special to the CO and his crew . |
| 16 | One point on which we are agreed is that instability in the economy is a definite hindrance . |
| 17 | Forecasts from econometric models will be inaccurate if the data on which they are based are wrong . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the nature of the ‘ common bond ’ on which they are based is such that members and potential members of a credit union can become aware of the cost advantages in the normal course of their day-to-day contact with friends , neighbours or workmates . |
| 19 | Their actual meaning is unclear because the definition of the population on which they are based is ambiguous . |
| 20 | In one form or another these issues , which are really all variations of the same issue , are of very long standing , but the style in which they are presented is liable to change very rapidly . |
| 21 | It is now known that the majority of standard statistical procedures used in the construction and evaluation of quantitative economic ( and other ) models , are sensitive to whether or not the data series to which they are applied are stable or unstable . |
| 22 | The matter of which they are made is crushed right out of existence … but it leaves behind it a gravitational field , as if it were still there but compressed into a very small volume of space . |
| 23 | Whether the length of time spent in making these inquiries and the mode in which they are made are reasonable or not may be nice questions . |
| 24 | The context in which they are mentioned is curious . |
| 25 | To this the applicant and his advisers respond that however understandable the authorities ' current attitude may be the course which they are adopting is unfair , for two cumulative reasons . |
| 26 | Does Schüssler Fiorenza mean that one is inspired by these women , although the religion in which they were involved is sexist ( in which case one is inspired to act against the biblical God ) ? |
| 27 | Paying public respect to eminent people is a good thing ; and using the names by which they were known is direct and refreshing . |
| 28 | The latter question has arisen where young girls have been invited to submit to acts in order to train their voice or to improve their breathing — unbeknown to them , the act which they were permitting was sexual intercourse . |
| 29 | Some of the changes which he is describing are visible to everyone . |
| 30 | Tennyson turning down one of the countless invitations to tea with which he was plagued is one thing . |