Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor has it always been the chub which were taken from the bottom ; several times the barbel have been on the bottom and the chub hovering above them . |
| 2 | It had been the hope which had kept her going through the dawn and early morning . |
| 3 | It had not been the Army which first noticed her disappearance , but an old Resistance colleague . |
| 4 | Since the Muslims turned back from Tours in the eighth century , the decisions made in Europe had increasingly been the decisions which altered the history of the world . |
| 5 | Part of the ideology of a healthy village community has been the pride which the inhabitants have traditionally shown in their village 's unique qualities . |
| 6 | And perhaps the drum beat had been the noise which had excited Scathach . |
| 7 | Such has been the treat which here has occassionally fallen to the share of the writer , who has witnessed every appearance on this mountain 's side , from the pretty timid water spout to the mighty roaring cataract . |
| 8 | Alternatively , in some countries previously without a daily paper it has been the government which has started one : there would probably be no daily newspaper in the Central African Republic , Botswana , Niger , Mauritania or Chad had each of these countries ' governments not decided to finance one . |
| 9 | It may have been the fever which caused this uncomfortable illusion . |
| 10 | The relationship with the West , and since 1945 particularly with the US , has been the factor which sets the last 150 years of Japanese history apart from earlier centuries . |
| 11 | This may have been the factor which enabled him alone to burn clinker successfully , since a glass kiln would be more likely to reach the temperatures required for successful burning of Portland cement rather than the lime-burning kiln used by his competitors . |
| 12 | On the one hand , there has been the approach which emphasizes the complexity of financial accounting and thus produces many user groups ( which we might call the differential approach ) ; alternatively , there has been the approach which emphasizes the commonalities and produces few user groups ( which we might call the integral approach ) . |
| 13 | On the one hand , there has been the approach which emphasizes the complexity of financial accounting and thus produces many user groups ( which we might call the differential approach ) ; alternatively , there has been the approach which emphasizes the commonalities and produces few user groups ( which we might call the integral approach ) . |
| 14 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
| 15 | Indeed Stephen Greenblatt 's preferred term for new historical activities , cultural poetics , more clearly indicates how anthropology rather than history has been the discipline which has more profoundly affected new historicist methods . |
| 16 | In retrospect , this seems to have been the meeting which prompted the remaining employers to make their final concessions , but that was not clear at the time , and several of the orators , some of whom have already been quoted , loosed off broadsides against the women 's union on this occasion . |
| 17 | No. 9 has been on the parent line at Brecon operating Santa Specials , but all that has been seen out in Aberystwyth has been the diesel which has been out most weekdays on engineers ' trains . |
| 18 | An act of God is usually held to have been the spark which ignited Ceauşescu 's ambitions as a town-planner and architect of communism and spurred him to act on them . |
| 19 | What I 've found to be the most inspiring of his work have been the songs which are ultimately almost meaningless in their simplicity . |
| 20 | These are the questions which I wish to address . |
| 21 | Such are the questions which remain to be addressed . |
| 22 | Such are the questions which still need to be resolved . |
| 23 | These are the questions which I sought to answer through my fieldwork which began in November , 1981 , as part of two research projects based at the University of York . |
| 24 | The actual machine is replaceable , as are the programs which run on it — but your data is unique and can not simply be replaced by the local computer shop . |
| 25 | In a sense , our results are the systems which we produce . |
| 26 | Less well known perhaps are the systems which have been developed for assessment in the workplace . |
| 27 | The stubby spires here which surmount the western towers are not ancient , but they replace the originals in the earlier style and are the type which Durham would have had in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 28 | Adjudicative authorities , one might say , are precisely those in which the role of the authority is to judge what are the reasons which apply to its subjects and decide accordingly , i.e. their decisions are merely meant to declare what ought to be done in any case . |
| 29 | This can be taken to mean that the one proper way for an authority to decide its actions is to ask itself what are the reasons which apply to its subjects and attempt to follow them . |
| 30 | In this process of self-creation social movements are the forces which contest an established system of historical action and seek to divert the development of society into a different channel . |