Example sentences of "be [conj] a [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been that a century which has seen so much development in terms of resources and method in historical research , has also seen a recurrent historical scepticism in theology . |
| 2 | It may therefore be that a clause which wholly negates one party 's promise will never be given effect ; even if this is not the case , the court will be extremely reluctant to interpret the clause in that way and clear words will be needed to have that effect . |
| 3 | Indeed , the lesson of 1979 may be that a government which can not be certain of winning a vote of confidence in the Commons would be well advised to call an election . |
| 4 | It appears to be that an agency which has an explicit power or duty to achieve a certain end , ( e.g. good race relations ) , can not exercise it in such a way as to disadvantage a person , unless that person has committed an independent breach of the common law or statute . |
| 5 | So what this example shows is that a sentence which seems to contain one assertion can turn out to contain many different assertions , some in the form of presuppositions . |
| 6 | but does n't that bring us back you see to clause nine , erm , is , is , is that a clause which erm which you 're , you 're suggesting is anti competitive because er agents might compete with er each other as to what if any funds they might want to pull down , or |
| 7 | Are the any weapons er which the aircraft er would not be able to , for example the J P two three three closely associated with the tornado , er is that a system which you would anticipate Eurofighter two thousand to be able to carry ? |
| 8 | I i is that a mistake which i did I get them |
| 9 | What you 're really saying is that a society which is perhaps stable , certainly better , is one in which there 's a fair degree of moderation and a fair degree of evenness in terms of |
| 10 | Ah yes , the second point was , is that a consideration which is determines location in strategic terms ? |
| 11 | When you come to think about it , how amazing it is that a singer whose recording career lasted only seven years ( where Decca is concerned ) could produce enough material to fill ten CDs even allowing for the addition of much off-the-air material , and excluding Das Lied von der Erde , the Klemperer Kindertotenlieder and Mahler 's Second , and Brahms 's Liebesliederwalzer , the last three just issued on three further discs in Decca 's Historic series . |
| 12 | His conclusion is that a religion which counts its success by numbers of converts is suspect . |
| 13 | The key point , to repeat it , is that a parasite whose genes aspire to the same destiny as the genes of its host shares all the interests of its host and will eventually cease to act parasitically . |
| 14 | What I find uncanny here is that a book which begins with a mocking suggestion about the literary critic as shaman , ends with a story in which Shakespeare is used by an explorer pretending to be a shaman among willing believers convinced of his power . |
| 15 | What does seem likely , at least in part , is that a practice which began in the Sixties — distinguishing themselves from their left-leaning peers through a pose of premature reactionism — has since become an indistinguishable part of their character . |
| 16 | Now one of the things that sex one of the consequences of sex is that a population which reproduces sexually can evolve more rapidly than a population erm which reproduces asexually . |
| 17 | What generally happens in practice is that an applicant whose total score is above a certain level would normally get credit automatically . |
| 18 | The outcome is that an industry which has skilfully managed to convert a chemical with meagre medical justification and considerable potential for harm ( Grinspoon and Hedblom 1975 ) into a legitimate drug , remained free from federal control to go on manufacturing , distributing , and advertising it . |
| 19 | ( As we explained in Chapter 6 , this is because a word which is highly predictable from the syntactic and semantic context can be detected more quickly than a word which is less predictable . ) |
| 20 | Shortly stated , the main issue is whether a school which is over-subscribed so that it can not accept all the applications for admission can adopt religious criteria ( i.e. criteria intended to preserve the character of the school ) in selecting the successful applicants for admission and thereby exempt itself under section 6(3) ( a ) from the duty under section 6(2) to give effect to the preferences expressed by parents whose children do not meet such criteria . |
| 21 | What was made equally clear was that a solution which is realistic , lasting , and just is still awaited . |
| 22 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 23 | The irony was that an episode which offered proof of Morrissey 's distrust of established institutions now elevated The Smiths to an almost legendary status . |