Example sentences of "[noun] which be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | thirty two 's the distance divided by the speed which is eight , thirty two divided by eight is four this is the rule for working out a journey time distance in miles divided by speed in miles per hour gives you the time in hours . |
| 2 | The quality in the British corner included Briggs , showing the speed which is one of her greatest assets , as she attempts to regain the world bantamweight title lost two years ago . |
| 3 | Very often manufacturers quote a Landmark speed which is supposed to provide a measure of performance . |
| 4 | With peeled veneer , a round log is heated in a steam pit for about twenty-four hours and then set up and rotated in a lathe in which a long knife peels the veneer circumferentially at a speed which is wonderful to watch . |
| 5 | Where a driver says ‘ I was blinded by the sun ’ or ‘ There was a patch of fog ’ or ‘ The road was covered with black ice ’ , he should have stopped , reduced his speed or driven at a speed which was safe . |
| 6 | The anti-collective , individualistic morality of the pursuit of money in the enterprise culture has led to a belief by some speculators that they can take risks which are criminal . |
| 7 | Intentionally or not he seems to suggest , as Lord Caithness also did at the Committee stage in the House of Commons , that the homosexual literature should pass the test of artistic and literary merit — characteristics which are necessary as a defence against a charge of obscenity under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . |
| 8 | Ideologies may be needed to neutralise ‘ natural ’ human characteristics which are prior to all practices . |
| 9 | Wise and loving training will help the growing child to foster tendencies and characteristics which are beneficial to society and helpful to the child 's development . |
| 10 | Market research will identify , for example , markets and their characteristics which are suitable for the company to enter . |
| 11 | Obscenity ‘ represents a much more fundamental assault on men and women and what it means to be human … [ it distorts ] human personality by depicting it as deprived of those characteristics which are essential to humanity [ since ] common to all obscene productions is the degradation of persons and of relations between persons ’ . |
| 12 | 20 ) ( three mosaics which also exhibit many other characteristics which are comparable , i.e. the style of borders in their concentric circular fields , and the placement of rosettes in the squares tangent to the main , central square ) . |
| 13 | The search for characteristics which are common to all services has floundered and attempts to treat the services as a homogeneous group have been plagued by the differences between services , in the kinds of labour involved , the type of work performed and the nature of the product . |
| 14 | First , it shares characteristics which are common to many of the activities typically undertaken by women , especially on an unpaid basis — routine , repetitive tasks which have few circumscribed limits of time or obligation . |
| 15 | The characteristics which are common within a specialist collection of data may relate to the subject matter ( e.g. political opinion polls ) , to the time period ( e.g. historical social and demographic records ) , to the geographical coverage ( e.g. Northern Irish data ) , to the administrative units to which they relate ( e.g. New Town 's studies ) or even to the type ( e.g. spatially referenced data ) . |
| 16 | I can think of dozens of Corbetts which are finer mountains in every way than many of their higher counterparts in the Munro bracket . |
| 17 | Yeah we have a little bit of new material , we always get every year you 'll get about you know eight or ten good new songs that people write and the one good thing about the people who write for us is that the songs sound like they 're they 're old songs which is ideal you know . |
| 18 | The span of possibilities here is enormous : we can follow Stravinsky in adapting Medieval forms ; we can write songs which are pure melody ; or we can use a form which ignores musical values , taking the guise of a word-drama . |
| 19 | Some people have had great pleasure and good practice from the rhythm of songs which were familiar before losing their hearing — such old friends as ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ , ‘ God Save the Queen ’ and the Wedding March . |
| 20 | ( 14 ) Section 104 of CA 1985 requires certain conditions to be met ( including an independent valuation and approval by an ordinary resolution of the company ) before a public company ( formed as such ) can ( within two years of its being issued with a certificate entitling it to do business under CA 1985 , s117 ) enter into an agreement to acquire a non-cash asset ( eg shares in the target ) from a subscriber to its memorandum of association which is equal in value to one-tenth or more of the company 's nominal share capital issued at the time or before a company is re-registered as a public company can ( within two years of the date of re-registration ) enter into such an agreement with a person who was a member on the date of re-registration . |
| 21 | As a member of the Board and Executive of the British Amateur Gymnastics Association which is responsible for shaping the sport in this country , chairman of the Women 's Technical Committee and the Commonweath Games Council for England gymnastics representative , Paul takes a high profile role . |
| 22 | From these beginnings Leonard founded the Co-operative Holidays Association which was non-profit making and became popular enough for advertisements to be placed in Christian World in 1893 , offering CHA run rambling holidays in the Lake District . |
| 23 | The careful thinking , the logic and the process of the thinking which are necessary for research , he suggests , have similarities with the work required for good practice ; and research itself should be seen , not just as a product but also a process . |
| 24 | ELM , the Glasgow-based maker of the ‘ plastic chicken ’ monitoring device plans to break into the US market and is negotiating with Marks & Spencer which is interested in introducing the chicken into its Canadian stores . |
| 25 | I lay on my bed in a cheap lodging house and cried and I tell you Ellen I wished I was with you and receiving your kindness which was great to me . |
| 26 | Nikolayeva certainly does not have the Horowitzian panache generally associated with Russian virtuosos — it is her mind and ears which are transcendental rather than her fingers — but that ‘ handicap ’ is actually a positive attribute since it makes for painstaking care and originality in all of her interpretations . |
| 27 | There are records galore about subjects such as sport , space , people , transport and animals which are sure to amaze you and your friends . |
| 28 | Animals that do this include fish such as the cod , which of course are highly mobile even as adults ; crustacea such as crabs and lobsters ; echinoderms such as sea urchins ; gastropod molluscs such as winkles , which are mobile as adults but are not able to travel huge distances ; and also — crucially — most of the animals which are sessile as adults — that is , remain immobile in one place . |
| 29 | One can compare liability under the rule with the liability at common law for dangerous animals which was stricter . |
| 30 | Pets , in other words , should be captive-bred , but you might allow animals which were wild to be brought into a captive-breeding scheme for pet ownership . |