Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have a Labour-led council , which I 'm proud to be the leader . |
| 2 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 3 | You know , that is a good test of your relationship with a person if there is a sense in which you are embarrassed to be with them , and there 's long periods of silence it 's a pretty good test that it 's not a deep relationship you have with them . |
| 4 | I then telephoned Howard Samuel and said , ‘ There is an attack on the Labour Party of which you are supposed to be a loyal member . |
| 5 | She finished the blackleading — a truly nasty job which she was glad to be done with early in the day . |
| 6 | I hope that , in future , this House of Commons , of which we are proud to be Members , will spend just a bit more time looking at what hon. Members do day after day . |
| 7 | It was nice to receive the April edition of Pilot , with your excellent ‘ Where to Fly ’ guide , in which we are pleased to be included . |
| 8 | The representation at Labour and T U C conferences does not reflect a lay representative organization which we are supposed to be . |
| 9 | Does it even speak from some recognition , however disavowed , that police practices transgress the ‘ rules of civilized conduct ’ which they are supposed to be upholding , and nowhere more obviously than in their treatment of black people ? |
| 10 | In the area of hypertext , the choice of which particular system to use is essentially a pragmatic one ; many of the available ones display appropriate behaviour at the depth to which they are likely to be investigated . |
| 11 | A virtue of the postclassical perspective is that , although it too is concerned with differences in individual dispositions towards crime , it allows more readily for changes in such dispositions , and for a more dynamic relationship between them and the situations in which they are likely to be activated . |
| 12 | On the morning of the days on which they were due to be announced , the dealing manager of DPR Futures would scream at the AEs : " This is it . |
| 13 | Had there been another mass breakout attempt in the night for which they were all to be punished ? |
| 14 | The Royal Navy relieved these men of the burden of privileged birth , gave them a peer-group of brother officers and an isolated , artificial microcosm of society in which they were free to be themselves . |
| 15 | He wondered if the fact that there were no tracks in the direction from which they were supposed to be coming would be noticed , and thought not . |
| 16 | Slicing already inadequate budgets down to the lowest possible level would reduce care managers ' ability to respond flexibly to user need at the very point at which they were supposed to be maximising choice . |
| 17 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 18 | In addition , an agreement between an accepting shareholder and the bank to direct the consideration shares to which he is entitled to be allotted to the bank in return for cash could be construed as an equitable assignment of the right to the allotment of the shares ( see , for example , Letts v Inland Revenue Commissioners [ 1956 ] 3 All ER 588 ) and possibly chargeable . |
| 19 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 20 | The student has identified and highlighted the three major aspects of the topic on which he is likely to be questioned . |
| 21 | I would like to say a last word about Amis 's voices , and about the long words which have been or might be laid on his confident art — a terminology for which he is unlikely to be grateful . |
| 22 | The second and third albums , ‘ Freewheelin ’ ( 1962 ) and ‘ The Times They are a Changin ’ ( 1963 ) , established him as a real and original talent , as both singer and songwriter , with a message that seemed as arresting and vital as the times through which he was fortunate to be living . |
| 23 | The end result is a novel in which it is impossible to be sure of anything . |
| 24 | Clause 33(1) of the Finance ( No. 2 ) Bill 1975 provided that the employee was to be treated , on receipt of a voucher , as having received an emolument from his employment of an amount ‘ equal to the expense incurred by the person providing the voucher in or in connection with the provision of the voucher and the money , goods or services for which it is capable of being exchanged . ’ |
| 25 | However , the rules which regulate take-over bids are so riddled with occasions when the managers of a target company can affect the outcome of the bid that the take-over bid ceases to act as the potent threat to self-serving or inefficient corporate managers which it is supposed to be . |
| 26 | The point is rather that the so-called independent check is a mere repetition of the procedure which it is supposed to be checking . |
| 27 | Inwards , it is expressed in a bid to lead the community in question back to a more meticulous observance of the canons of Islam according to which it is supposed to be living . |
| 28 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 29 | The iconography may be updated — with Punch , Harlequin , Perrault 's Cinderella , archetypal figures of immemorial imaginings replaced by newer , movie-bred cast of characters , Roger Rabbit , Indiana Jones , Disney 's Cinderella — but both theme park and funfair are designed to satisfy the childhood fantasy of a toy as big as the object of which it 's supposed to be the scale model . |
| 30 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |