Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | The mill was powered then by a steam engine , the coal for which had to be carried from the |
2 | Let us now abandon the connection with a mechanical system , and treat this as a problem involving any given real matrix A , the eigenvalues and vectors for which have to be found . |
3 | What happened that afternoon was the product of countless details , all of which had to be just right . |
4 | In the case of Sting he sees no conflict with his Green beliefs and the arrangement of a wedding bash which brought to Wiltshire 250 petrol-guzzling cars , security helicopters , a £20,000 Versace wedding dress flown from Italy , paper invitations , not to mention four dozen portable lavatories , the contents of which had to be emptied … well , it hardly bears thinking about where they were emptied . |
5 | This netting of his assets doubtless conceals the fact that , like any businessman , he in turn had extensive liabilities , making him the centre of a complex web of credit , the effects of which had to be reckoned with . |
6 | When the case first came before the Court of Appeal , the court , finding no assistance in the text of the Convention itself , held in effect that the proceedings had to be regarded as in a ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ both under the law of the requesting country , which must necessarily be the starting-point , and that of England , the courts of which had to be satisfied that the request did fall within the terms of the Act . |
7 | The cost of this story was very high , not least for the time , materials and manpower needed to build the ‘ giant ’ sets and props ( the sink , the telephone , the briefcase , the lab bench , etc. ) , all of which had to be robust enough for the regular cast to clamber around . |
8 | In every house in the Rante , as well as at every animist site throughout the valley , numerous puzzling little rituals were taking place — all of which had to be successfully completed , apparently , before the final " star-launching " could proceed . |
9 | Clearly more than one period of fortification is to be implied , with the likelihood that a masonry wall was added to the front of an existing bank , the contemporary ditch of which had to be solidly filled in order to carry its foundations ; a date for the bank of not earlier than c . |
10 | He had reaffirmed , he said , Pakistan 's long-established position that Kashmir was a disputed territory , the future of which had to be decided by a free plebiscite under UN supervision . |
11 | When there was the gas explosion at Guthrie Street we lost more than 100 panes of glass , all of which had to be replaced as quickly as possible . ’ |
12 | The answer is that it is more significant than often it appears , especially if you include examples such as help in finding employment , the importance of which continues to be greater than often is recognized . |
13 | In the former case the problem is rather how to reward the manager for effort , the effect of which continues to be felt after the manager has left ( Finsinger and Vogelsang , 1985 ; see also Tam , 1985 ) . |
14 | In more wooded country with old hedges , you will almost certainly come across the field rose R. arvensis , the hips of which tend to be more orange than red , becoming blackened as the winter progresses . |
15 | There is a range of views and practices , most of which tend to be responsive . |
16 | We also found no effect on reported morbidity , though there was a suggestion that the prevalence of vomiting and refusal of food or breastmilk , both of which tend to be associated with severe episodes of illness , were lower in the supplemented children . |
17 | Up on Tottenham Court Road there were all the gadget shops , all displaying their various ranges of radios , record players , compact-disc players and videos — all of which seemed to be housed in bewilderingly similar sleek black boxes . |
18 | I counted only six white workers in the factory , half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence . |
19 | I felt about me ; and my hands came in contact with several fishes , some of which seemed to be still alive , for they squirmed in my fingers , and slipped back to my feet . |
20 | Other aircraft of note included : Mil Mi-6 , Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire , Tu-134 , Tu-154 and Ilyushin II-62 , all of which seemed to be just parked out on the airfield amongst the overgrown grass . |
21 | Concern for the poor , and the distribution of alms , responsibility for widows and orphans , and also the visitation of those in prison , all of which came to be recognized as being within the purview of the Church in legal texts , derived from the New Testament . |
22 | while the Ministry of Defence deployed a speech-synthesiser called Ian McDonald to give the British public all the news fit to print , all of which appeared to be found fit several days after it happened . |
23 | She 'd fled , but not before he 'd accused her with brutish , angry words of a number of character and personality deficiencies , the greatest of which appeared to be her total inability to appreciate the finer qualities of Marcus Pritchard . |
24 | The discoverers added a number of routes , the best of which seem to be Cookie Monster E7 6b , and the most popular Wagtail E3 5b . |
25 | Now on to Bradford on Avon , the ancient wool town , and up the steep hills lined with stone houses , most of which seem to be antique shops . |
26 | Close to 400 years of peace have left Switzerland with an enormous wealth of beautiful old buildings , most of which seem to be in the capital , Berne . |
27 | Transcription of vaccinia virus is carried out by a multimeric RNA polymerase composed of two large and many small subunits , all of which seem to be virus encoded ( reviewed in ( 1 ) ) . |
28 | They include beet , lettuce , broad beans , carrots , peas and spinach , all of which need to be sown as soon as possible now . |
29 | This gives rise to a number of interrelated problems , all of which need to be solved before we have a normal form . |
30 | Yes I 'd love to get rid of a lot of them but I 'm yo you have got two ongoing problems both of which need to be treated so I think to start er cutting things out could make you a lot worse . |