Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 2 | And the remaining difference which I estimate to be one thousand five hundred , is really the I think is the difference in the treatment of students . |
| 3 | The distortion on the unit , which I expected to be awful , is actually very good , although I do n't think it quite lives up to Ibanez 's claim that the unit could serve as a preamp , when linked to an amplifier . |
| 4 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 5 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 6 | Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning . |
| 7 | And now that it is 8.58 pm and I have done fifty-eight minutes of work , which I deem to be more than enough for one night I am signing off , because , I 'm lazy . |
| 8 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 9 | ( All matters which I judged to be vital and contemporary ! ) |
| 10 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 11 | The first tends to refer mainly to the military context which , while obviously important , is not what this book is about ; and the second is clearly state-centrist , and does not fully convey the scnse of hegemony where it does not directly involve the state , which I take to be crucial . |
| 12 | From her rises that familiar scent which I take to be human . |
| 13 | This portion of the ocean 's surface was also inhabited by storm petrels , but of a distinct species from any I had hitherto observed , and which I believe to be new to science . |
| 14 | send a message by telephone ( or telegram ) to … ( specify person ) which you knew to be false for the purpose of causing annoyance ( or inconvenience or needless anxiety ) to the said … ( or to … or |
| 15 | At work you are told to do tasks that are not part of your job , including operating machinery which you believe to be dangerous . |
| 16 | It 's a good idea to write down all of the incidents concerning your boss which you believe to be unfair . |
| 17 | K ap is true because in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you believe that you are sitting reading , and the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading are either worlds in which you are standing/kneeling/lying reading or worlds in which you are sitting knitting/watching TV , etc. , but not worlds in which you happen to be asleep dreaming that you are sitting reading . |
| 18 | She spoke at intervals about moving herself and Marcus out of the flat ( which she agreed to be horrid ) perhaps to another flat or to some vaguely envisaged country cottage . |
| 19 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 20 | His daughter , Mary Moore , who enthusiastically supported the exhibition and was guest of honour at the opening , is well known for opposing the approach to her father 's work and , above all to his house and studios at Perry Green , taken by the Henry Moore Foundation , which she considers to be over-institutional , insufficiently concerned with the memory of her father and out of tune with his intentions . |
| 21 | In 1292 , for example , the king ordered an inquiry to be made in the forest of Essex by the foresters , verderers and regarders of the three regards of Colchester , Ongar and Chelmsford , together with a jury of thirty-six knights and others , into a complaint by the Abbess of Barking that the foresters had interfered in her woods , which she claimed to be exempt from the regard and from the jurisdiction of the king 's Forest officers . |
| 22 | It is clear that what is necessary in such a case is research , not dogmatic and perfectly arbitrary claims , based on analogies to that small part of the experimental literature in which one happens to be interested . |
| 23 | Such a phrase may feature as part of a quotation , or a paraphrase , as in indirect speech ; or it may be used in respect of an object which we know to be fictional , for example in the context of a story or a fairy tale . |
| 24 | There is no point in library staff researching rose varieties for an enquirer , for example , when we can give them the address of the National Rose Society , which we know to be helpful . |
| 25 | Gaseous or diffuse nebulæ , which we know to be stellar birthplaces , are in general rather disappointing binocular objects , though there are a few exceptions such as M42 , the Sword of Orion ( not to be confused with the Sword-Handle in Perseus ) . |
| 26 | This must follow since we move away from direct taxes which we saw to be progressive , towards indirect taxes , which at best are proportional ( VAT ) , and more usually are regressive ( the community charge — now the new Council Tax , uniform business rate , excise duties , import duties , etc . ) . |
| 27 | There will also be a demonstration arena which we hope to be able to use to show our work through display items and open classes . |
| 28 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 29 | To regard these as distinct interests , each of which sustains a set of values , allows us to reformulate the question of the relative scope of holist and individualist theories which we found to be such a pressing one . |
| 30 | In that time , we were tied to the gold standard , which we found to be inadequate and inflexible , especially as it depended in part on the mining activities in the gold mines of South Africa and the Soviet Union . |