Example sentences of "and [Wh det] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a symbiotic relationship , whose outward token was the umbilical cord , and which continues to be fed by the maternal bond until the two beings become separate . |
| 2 | He presided over far-reaching changes , including the abolition of censorship , in a programme which he described as aiming for " socialism with a human face " and which came to be known as the " Prague Spring " . |
| 3 | The Tory party was more loosely structured : there were tensions between the Highflyers and the more moderate wing that emerged under Anne , and which came to be led by Robert Harley , whilst even the High Church chieftains — the Earl of Rochester , the Earl of Nottingham , and Sir Edward Seymour — worked much less closely together than the Whig Junto . |
| 4 | Lectures and concerts were to be given , for which topics of current interest should be very carefully chosen , and which had to be free for all comers . |
| 5 | Whether this was in fact the first is not really known , nor is it known how or why the tradition started , but Mr Hector Buckley ( in whose barn the 1964 pie was made and which had to be partially demolished to get the pie out ) has a theory about this . |
| 6 | Institutional shareholders prefer an employee trust to an option scheme , as it will not dilute their equity in the company ; this is because an option scheme established by a company usually provides for options to subscribe shares , whereas an employee trust can be empowered to grant options over shares already in issue and which come to be held by the trust , as where an employee leaves and sells his shares to the trustees . |
| 7 | The PSP , as the only party in Cuba with an organisational apparatus throughout the island , potentially offered the discipline and political expertise which would be needed to form a revolutionary government and which seemed to be lacking in Castro 's own movement . |
| 8 | There is a lethal or semi-lethal dwarfing factor in the breed , sometimes called the bulldog-calf syndrome , the genetics of which have been closely studied and which seems to be slightly different to the dwarfing factor sometimes seen in other cattle breeds . |
| 9 | There are several erudite and comprehensive books available to guide the unwary through the maze that has been constructed over the centuries to form our current property law and which seems to be continually evolving . |
| 10 | Rather , it is due to a complex interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic factors , which are not unique to the tropics and which have to be resolved individually for any particular forest . ’ |
| 11 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 12 | In commenting critically on the proposed text of the Restatement , cited above , the Solicitor General stressed the strong policy of the United States procedural rules to secure efficient and effective discovery in all cases ; declared foreign reliance on judicial sovereignty to have an abstract quality , which did not elucidate substantive foreign interests , and which needed to be evaluated in the light of the established American principle that its courts could require foreign nationals to produce evidence located abroad ; and urged that objections based on a blocking statute should be greeted with caution and scepticism in any proper comity analysis . |
| 13 | Other items might be delegated , with the LEA acting as judge of which are best passed to the school 's control and which need to be held centrally . |
| 14 | What elements does it affirm , what does it reject , what does it accommodate , and which need to be redeemed ? |
| 15 | Those aspects of the context which are directly reflected in the text , and which need to be called upon to interpret the text , we shall refer to as activated features of context and suggest that they constitute the contextual framework within which the topic is constituted , that is , the topic framework . |
| 16 | The beginning of a strategy for change would be to examine some key stereotypes of disability within that history of misrepresentation which are present today and which need to be challenged . |
| 17 | However , as much as we have gained the initiative , there are still problems which face the disability arts movement and which need to be unravelled . |
| 18 | There are identifiable skills which the teacher knows and which need to be explained to the children and practised so that they are well equipped for life . |
| 19 | They have to decide what problems they can deal with and which need to be referred to outside specialists . ’ |
| 20 | Prior to running Update Baseline , the user must identify which modules within a specified approved package structure ( baseline ) have later approved versions than are currently referenced and which need to be embodied in order to generate a new baseline . |
| 21 | This gives work-in-progress figures that are likely to be higher than other areas of work and which need to be financed by the firm . |
| 22 | The source of the smoke turned out to be a huge cast-iron incinerator behind the house which had been crammed full of papers and what seemed to be old clothes . |
| 23 | trickled down , Jack could see a boy with oriental features and what seemed to be a rain-soaked face . |
| 24 | There was a further link with editors , not such a happy one , for false reports and rumours were constantly appearing , and what seemed to be a campaign of vilification of the police . |
| 25 | She was wearing schoolboy shorts herself , and what seemed to be an eleven-year-old 's prep-school cricket blazer . |
| 26 | Others floated slowly downstream , sitting upright like bathtoys amid a flotsam of bottles and skeins of plastic and what seemed to be sandwiches , while several more patrolled a little shingly beach almost beneath the piers of the bridge . |
| 27 | He could see a table and chairs and what seemed to be the end of a large settee . |
| 28 | between my arm and what seemed to be air — |
| 29 | Miller poignantly captures the variety and conflict of feelings that followed the war — the mixture of relief , sorrow , dissatisfaction , and what came to be called survival guilt . |
| 30 | Jebb favoured a system of alliance or partnership between Britain and what came to be known as the dominions : he approved of separate dominion navies in co-operation with the Royal Navy ; he wanted tariff reform and imperial preference as means of binding the dominions more closely ; and he wanted the imperial conference turned into a continuous body handling large defence and economic questions . |