Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] be [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 Within the proviso therefore , that short-term visitors only may be offered to individual area secretaries , I would like to make the following proposals for which I am indebted to area staff colleagues for their help :
2 We have a Labour-led council , which I 'm proud to be the leader .
3 The story , for which I 'm indebted to Dr Arthur Raistrick , goes as follows :
4 You know , that is a good test of your relationship with a person if there is a sense in which you are embarrassed to be with them , and there 's long periods of silence it 's a pretty good test that it 's not a deep relationship you have with them .
5 I then telephoned Howard Samuel and said , ‘ There is an attack on the Labour Party of which you are supposed to be a loyal member .
6 And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route .
7 This was to get across the important difference between a living enemy , which itself is subject to evolutionary change , and an inanimate non-malevolent condition such as the weather , which is subject to change , but not systematic , evolutionary change .
8 She finished the blackleading — a truly nasty job which she was glad to be done with early in the day .
9 So even the most rapid changes in these things were going very , very slowly compared with the kinds of rates which we 're accustomed to seeing in the lab. erm so on the whole so far deep sea cores seem to me to suggest that really at least those beauties are really pretty gradualistic in their behaviour .
10 In the last two months , our budgeted sales of cattle feed have been much harder to achieve but these are conditions under which we are used to operating .
11 I hope that , in future , this House of Commons , of which we are proud to be Members , will spend just a bit more time looking at what hon. Members do day after day .
12 It was nice to receive the April edition of Pilot , with your excellent ‘ Where to Fly ’ guide , in which we are pleased to be included .
13 This will help to create the state of deep relaxation in which we are open to the ideas and images we will put on the tape with our own voice .
14 This is one of the ways in which we are inferior to the so-called ‘ lower ’ forms of animal life .
15 The representation at Labour and T U C conferences does not reflect a lay representative organization which we are supposed to be .
16 To the extent that the companies are actual or potential competitors , the agreement will restrict competition and , if there is an effect on inter-state trade ( which there is likely to be unless production is insignificant ) , there will be a breach of Article 85(1) .
17 Bills then go through four stages in each House : a ‘ first reading ’ , which simply involves the formal presentation of the Bill ; a ‘ second reading ’ , at which there is likely to be a large-scale debate on the basic principles of the Bill ; a ‘ committee stage ’ , when the legislation is examined in detail ( normally by a small ‘ standing committee ’ and not by the whole House ) ; and a ‘ report stage ’ and ‘ third reading ’ , at which the Bill that emerges from the committee is approved , but may be re-amended to undo some of the actions of the committee .
18 From these a consensus has emerged , which is probably reliable , that the main areas in which there are likely to be substantial effects due to new technology are in the engineering industry , with the increased use of CAD and computer-aided manufacturing ( CAM ) , and the use of robots ; in offices through office automation , in which the use of word processors with or without linkages via networks and data bases to form paperless offices is predicted to bring substantial improvements in productivity , though the effects on skills is at the moment quite unclear ; and in the computer industry itself , where there is substantially increased demand for software engineers .
19 For over fifty years selected local bus operators have been given monopoly rights on their routes in return for which they are subject to fares control and expected to plough back any profits from good services to maintain loss-making routes .
20 If we 've got to close homes , let's close them but make sure the homes that 's left are warm welcoming and give these people the dignity and the independence to which they are entitled to which they 've earned and which they thoroughly deserve .
21 Does it even speak from some recognition , however disavowed , that police practices transgress the ‘ rules of civilized conduct ’ which they are supposed to be upholding , and nowhere more obviously than in their treatment of black people ?
22 In the area of hypertext , the choice of which particular system to use is essentially a pragmatic one ; many of the available ones display appropriate behaviour at the depth to which they are likely to be investigated .
23 A virtue of the postclassical perspective is that , although it too is concerned with differences in individual dispositions towards crime , it allows more readily for changes in such dispositions , and for a more dynamic relationship between them and the situations in which they are likely to be activated .
24 Ministers are responsible to Parliament through the convention of individual ministerial responsibility which assigns to them control of their departments , for which they are answerable to Parliament .
25 On the morning of the days on which they were due to be announced , the dealing manager of DPR Futures would scream at the AEs : " This is it .
26 Which they were used to .
27 The Royal Navy relieved these men of the burden of privileged birth , gave them a peer-group of brother officers and an isolated , artificial microcosm of society in which they were free to be themselves .
28 He wondered if the fact that there were no tracks in the direction from which they were supposed to be coming would be noticed , and thought not .
29 Slicing already inadequate budgets down to the lowest possible level would reduce care managers ' ability to respond flexibly to user need at the very point at which they were supposed to be maximising choice .
30 They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet .
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