Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [pron] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that I am a thing made of metal and plastic , but also that I am something which lives inside that metal and plastic . |
| 2 | erm For example if erm two people are walking down the street and there 's a certain amount of jostling , then the victim , if he is a victim , may well consider that it 's not violent , or that it 's nothing out of the ordinary , or that it 's something which is acceptable , and then not take the matter any farther . |
| 3 | Those who imagine that they see the spectre of euthanasia raising its head look with particular misgiving at the doctor 's decision to discontinue ventilation.4 Those lawyers who have given the issue their attention have accepted the common factual assumption that turning off a ventilator is significant , and have then sought legal arguments by which to justify it.5 For they have had to recognize both that it is a common medical practice , and that it is one which prima facie calls for some justification . |
| 4 | A Mareva injunction will be available whatever the cause of action , provided that it is one which may ultimately lead to enforcement against the defendant 's assets ; it would not be available where the relief sought was purely declaratory . |
| 5 | ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family . |
| 6 | One word of warning though : if you are someone whose daily life involves a strong competitive element , you would do well to avoid too much in the way of competitive sport ( squash , tennis and so on ) as your form of exercise as these will only tend to maintain an already high level of stress . |
| 7 | The answer , and it 's one which casts a disturbing light on British attitudes to aircraft manufacture , becomes obvious when you visit Socata 's Tarbes base . |
| 8 | This type of work , in which the children are playing at their roles , is frequently a necessary stage in the process of building commitment to the drama ; and it 's one which adults find as useful as children . |
| 9 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 10 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 11 | That 's something that will need to be financed and it 's something which the Board will need to find the money to do . |
| 12 | And it 's something which is difficult to cope with , but I work in a kind of environment where it just is sexually biased , that 's the way it goes ! |
| 13 | And it 's something which we 're doing again in the future . |
| 14 | They are becoming a lot more common , yes when you look in the report and accounts there are far , far more of these deferred pensioners there than er than ever used to exist and it 's something which I must admit we have n't given a lot of thought to yet , but it 's something because it 's growing that we will have to address erm in our federation , we will have to address that problem . |
| 15 | That , that is certainly , you know , it , that can be , and , and it 's something which we 'll probably look at a wee longer term |
| 16 | Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road . |
| 17 | Nigel Watson , chairman of the housing forum , said : ‘ The survey confirms our fears that there is a problem and it is one which is getting worse as more young people are being forced to leave the dale . ’ |
| 18 | It is a charge never withdrawn and it is one which stuck . |
| 19 | McClellan provided the definitive judgement many years ago , and it is one which is only partially vitiated by recent developments in local government . |
| 20 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 21 | This is a political idea and it is one which we have seen expressed in a contemporary form in Oakeshott 's idea of respublica . |
| 22 | There is one final point that ought to he made before we operationalise these theories , and it is one which we alluded to in our earlier discussions . |
| 23 | This clearly demands an answer , and it is one which the individualistic , myopically-therapeutic psychoanalysis of the present can not supply . |
| 24 | The single-track section of line would have given me cause for concern and it is one which could reasonably be removed . ’ |
| 25 | Pawnbrokers had a role in society , and it was one which writers in social and literary reviews were constantly querying . |
| 26 | Patronage was a vital tool of management , but it was never more than a tool , and it was one which was not generally employed in the form of direct bribery . |
| 27 | The press-gang gave politicians an effective method of giving a very real service to the parties more directly concerned , and it was one which should have created a lasting sense of obligation , for life before the mast in one of His Majesty 's ships was not likely to be easily forgotten . |
| 28 | This had been the problem with The Family Reunion as well , and it was one which he attempted to solve in his next play . |
| 29 | It was he who had run ahead in pursuit of the horses , and it was he whose eyes now most keenly searched the forest edge . |
| 30 | The order for maintenance sounds as if it is something which will be enforced in specie ; yet in fact there is neither good reason to believe this , nor any need for that to be done . |