Example sentences of "which [pos pn] [noun pl] [modal v] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I question both the justice of all governments and the principle by which my taxes can be used to pay for machines of mass destruction . |
| 2 | These are the nations with which Britain should be compared and by reference to which her laws should be judged . |
| 3 | Seventy have been given refugee status and 240 have been allowed to stay for a year after which their cases will be reviewed . |
| 4 | Thus , in the above example , unc Another useful property of triangular matrices is the ease with which their reciprocals may be calculated . |
| 5 | They were more successful than most trade unions confronting the government in the 1980s : a hugely discreet slush fund now exists under which their lordships can be reimbursed by the taxpayer . |
| 6 | The traditional school 's isolation of the teacher typically allows such useful knowledge to lie unused , or at least under-used , the people concerned being unaware of the circumstances in which their skills could be deployed , their colleagues unmindful of the possibilities or unable because of lack of timetable time or other simple machinery to bring them in . |
| 7 | The importance of the great national repositories of original documents was stressed in Chapter 5 , and subsequent chapters have indicated many ways in which their resources may be used by local researchers . |
| 8 | Disturbed but not deterred by this unpromising start , the Abingdon and London groups independently approached the RCN to discuss ways in which their activities could be brought under its wing . |
| 9 | Institutions provide a context for individuals to take on ‘ roles ’ in which their actions can be recognized as meaningful by themselves and others . |
| 10 | It is surely high time that the anomaly is ended whereby managers , alone among health service professionals , lack the discipline of defined ethical standards against which their actions can be judged . |
| 11 | It 's a good job , she says , that they managed to complete most of the house before the birth , for they did n't anticipate the extent to which their lives would be turned upside down . |
| 12 | Controversial figures in public life , such as Winston Churchill , Richard Nixon , Indira Gandhi , Martin Luther King , T. S. Eliot and many others , will probably attract biographers for years to come because it is felt that there are still new things to be said about them , new perspectives from which their work can be seen , and new interpretations of politics or the arts in which their contributions should be judged . |
| 13 | Local authority transport planners face the problem of assessing the merits of diverse types of transport improvement projects among which their funds must be allocated . |
| 14 | Such an ideal , shorn here of a class dimension , resonated with the belief of a majority of the working-class voters in West Ham after the war that the Labour Party was the only party able to represent their interests , overcome their frustrations and grievances , and provide the means through which their hopes could be realised . |
| 15 | A major objective of the seminar was ‘ to give the participants a means through which their ministries could be analysed in view of their identity and their role in the Church today ’ , according to an editorial in Catalyst . |
| 16 | By highlighting the threat to the constitution from Labour and Liberal plans for a Scottish Parliament and the proportional representation system by which its members would be elected , he consistently and robustly drove home the message that the Tories alone stood as the party of Union , of collective strength in negotations abroad and strong government at home . |
| 17 | And every proof or dis-proof can be readily evaded , if one questions the truth of its premisses , or the validity of its type of inference , or if one finds new senses in which its terms may be used . |
| 18 | First , the contributory negligence of the plaintiff and the amount by which his damages should be reduced . |
| 19 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 20 | Earlier yesterday , Dr Legwell said in Tripoli he was ‘ not impressed ’ when he visited Scotland last month to investigate conditions under which his clients might be tried . |
| 21 | The Middle East Economic Digest of May 4 reported that Hrawi reacted cautiously to Geaga 's offer in order " to avoid being put in a situation in which his troops could be compromised " . |
| 22 | This comes in two forms , that used here being the SADS-L , or Lifetime Version , which enables the assessment to be based , not on a single episode of illness , but on accumulated information about the person , covering the longer time periods over which our subjects could be studied . |
| 23 | Though Gassendi followed Epicurus in taking sense-experience as the criterion , or measure , of truth , and that on which our judgements should be based , he combines this criterion with its traditional rival , reason . |
| 24 | It has the illusions of being part of the process by which your priorities may be achieved but , looked objectively , it is unlikely that it really contributes to this aim . |
| 25 | ( a ) You are overlooking visual clues which your students may be picking up . |