Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two basic postulates of SR are as follows : firstly the laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames , i.e. in all frames which are moving with constant velocity with respect to the frame of the distant galaxies ; secondly the velocity of light is a constant c . |
| 2 | However , if there are no firms which are dealing with employment-related claims , then that is an area well worth targeting . |
| 3 | Observations from Earth-based telescopes have so far revealed a wealth of spectral lines , from over 50 varieties of molecules in space , some of which are operating as natural masers . |
| 4 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 5 | Experts from the world 's biggest wildlife hospital say they ca n't reach many of the seals , which are dying on inaccessible rocks . |
| 6 | He suggests that they will be replaced in part by three more diversified and stable services , all of which are sitting on golden eggs in a restructuring Europe : accounting , law and computing . |
| 7 | Many of the gifts in the catalogue are also available from the National Trust property shops , some of which are opening on selected days for Christmas shopping ( see back of the catalogue for details ) . |
| 8 | Future research projects will prepare the way for work on the Palatine chapel at Aachen , the Pantheon in Paris , the Customs Union 12 at Essen and Le Corbusier 's Cité Radieuse at Marseille , all of which are suffering from atmospheric pollution . |
| 9 | Police in Hemel Hempstead are asking shoppers and pubgoers to watch videos of missing four year old Simon Jones which are going on public view . |
| 10 | Bull has confirmed its intention to re-group several development teams within Bull Systems Products , ‘ which are working on common programmes but in different establishments . ’ |
| 11 | The anguish of American astronomers reflects the two current trends in space science which are pulling in opposite directions . |
| 12 | It was legal to seize cattle which were trespassing on fenced land , but such action could lead to an accusation of theft . |
| 13 | Hence the cusp was on field lines which were convecting with similar velocity to the closed field lines equatorward of the cusp . |
| 14 | It means the menswear chain has acted ahead of several other retailers , including major supermarkets like Tesco , which were looking into similar schemes . |
| 15 | The site needed to be shifted back to the regulation of life itself ; to the study of sound offspring and to the elimination of all those racial poisons ( alcoholism , venereal disease , feeble-mindedness ) which were leading to national degeneration . |
| 16 | AXA has since ploughed almost $100m more into Equitable Life , which is recovering from heavy losses on its property portfolio , and reckons it will soon see a good return on its investment . |
| 17 | Some of those held on remand will be found not guilty and a significant proportion do not receive custodial sentences when their case is finally heard — points not lost on the government , which is investing in additional bail hostels , special bail information schemes run by the probation service and , more controversially , pilot schemes malting use of electronic ‘ tagging ’ equipment ; these are all ways , it is hoped , to reduce what many see as an unnecessary and wasteful use of prison resources . |
| 18 | It is precisely this sense of legitimacy which is lacking in capitalist societies today . |
| 19 | It is precisely this which is lacking in normal mourning , which is otherwise the closest approximation to clinical depression , and , as we can now see , constitutes the central pathological process both in the latter and in its collective , externalized equivalent , the melancholy of socialism : |
| 20 | A ROLLS Wood Group team which is looking into internal communications as part of a Total Quality Management Programme found that an in-house newsletter would be useful in bridging the communications gaps . |
| 21 | Alex Salmond , leader of the SNP , defended his party saying : ‘ The economic prospects for an independent Scotland are outstanding , and in sharp contrast with bankrupt Britain which is sinking under Tory policies and would still be sinking under a Labour government pursuing Tory policies . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Hill , appointed chairman this week , said one of his first moves would be to separate management of the company from Bond Corp , which is struggling under huge debts . |
| 23 | ‘ More quantifiably , there 's been a significant improvement in productivity and activity out of a budget which is increasing in real terms but not by much . |
| 24 | Children could be sent home from a school which is suffering from chronic overcrowding . |
| 25 | Traffic experts are predicting jams and misery over a large part of the region because of a bridge which is suffering from structural corrosion . |
| 26 | Thus , these findings support the general interpretation of variable outcomes in community services which is emerging from other studies ( Landesman , 1988 ; Felce , 1988 ) , that it is the combination of therapeutic objectives , the opportunities created by service design and organization , and the amount and quality of staff performance which determines the outcomes for the people served . |
| 27 | The extension will also have the effect that the offences of theft and criminal deception will overlap and that conduct which under the present law is larceny by a trick and that which is obtaining by false pretences will be the same offence of criminal deception . |
| 28 | The Old Museum is playing host to Druid Theatre Company this week , which is playing to packed houses with its wonderful production of Merriman 's ‘ The Midnight Court ’ . |
| 29 | The need , on one level , is for extra space , particularly for the Children 's Church ‘ which is growing like mad . ’ |
| 30 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |