Example sentences of "[conj] that which [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an attempt to avoid rural unrest , Chamorro confirmed that it would be impossible to return land confiscated and distributed among peasants who now held legal title or that which had been confiscated for important public purposes . |
| 2 | Er as I think about all of us today , it seems to me that the , that that which endures is human relationships . |
| 3 | The total sum was significantly higher than that which had been anticipated . |
| 4 | These included minimizing the deployment of the plainclothes units — the so-called " Skeleton Corps " — whose function it was to pursue and arrest protesters , reducing the use of tear gas , and prohibiting the use by riot police of equipment ( such as steel pipes ) other than that which had been officially provided . |
| 5 | The letter was far more conciliatory than that which had been rejected in 1921 . |
| 6 | For there will never be any new thing other than that which has been before , but everything is repeated down to the minutest detail . |
| 7 | While the approach taken by the US courts has been much more progressive than that which has been adopted in Britain , it is nonetheless clear that in neither jurisdiction do directors owe a duty of disclosure when trading on impersonal stock exchange markets . |
| 8 | Intellectual honesty may well require a better explanation as to why an act is unreasonable than that which has been provided by the courts using traditional techniques of review . |
| 9 | It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing . |
| 10 | Some of the typical distinctions between discourse which has been written and that which has been spoken can be seen in the following two descriptions of a rainbow . |
| 11 | The company has tried going green at thirty of its stores , but it claims customers ca n't tell the difference between environmentally friendly produce and that which has been sprayed with chemicals . |
| 12 | In the last mentioned case the delivery order transferred by the buyers to the sub-purchaser was the same document as that which has been transferred to the buyers by the sellers . |