Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poindexter 's conviction was quashed in a split two-to-one judgement on the grounds that the recollection of trial witnesses had been tainted by testimony which he had given before Congress under immunity in 1987 . |
| 2 | While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire . |
| 3 | Langbaurgh 's budget has been limited to £16.5m which will mean a reduction in poll tax bills of £18 a head . |
| 4 | Whereas the company had formerly been limited to films which cost between £150,000 and 200,000 , it could now stretch up to £700,000 . |
| 5 | A similar exercise has been undertaken by Karlsson whose work we shall refer to again because of the interesting comments he has made about his observations from a genetics viewpoint . |
| 6 | The bomb on board the Boeing 747 Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) passenger aircraft flight PA 103 on Dec. 21 , 1988 , which had killed all 259 people on board and 11 people in the village of Lockerbie [ see pp. 36409-10 ] was believed to have been placed in luggage which joined the flight at Frankfurt . |
| 7 | For example , schools can ask Compact companies to provide Work Experience placements and classroom resources which will challenge gender stereotyping with relation to vocational opportunities ; young women have often been placed in engineering or construction companies , while young men have been placed in work which has traditionally been associated with young women . |
| 8 | Research departments are filled with projects which seem valuable when each is examined on its own . |
| 9 | A different system has been developed for companies whose product is packed in trays or boxes . |
| 10 | A new variety of banana has been developed in Honduras which is more resistant to fungal diseases , reducing the need for spraying with fungicides . |
| 11 | Furthermore , gradation could equally lead to heavier sentences than might otherwise have been given for conduct which comes within the higher categories , although this could be regulated by appeal courts and sentencing guidelines . |
| 12 | They are formed from megakaryocytes which , in the final process of maturation , become amoeboid in shape and their pseudopods penetrate the marrow sinusoids . |
| 13 | An underground water supply serving the city of Peterborough , in eastern England , has been contaminated by pesticides which were dumped at nearby rubbish dumps . |
| 14 | Ophiomitrella , Ophioripa , " Ophiophthalmus " and Ophiomelina are distinguished on characters which elsewhere in the Ophiacanthidae would be used as specific characters . |
| 15 | But in many societies the position is exactly reversed ; homicide invites private reprisal , while many types of sexual offence lead to public punishment because they are regarded as sins which generate a condition of ritual pollution and thus endanger the whole community . |
| 16 | Contrastingly , it is not a defence to a civil claim where legislative standards are regarded as minimum which should , in some circumstances , be exceeded by the reasonably prudent producer . |
| 17 | The campaign aims to prevent the import of veal from France and Holland , where calves are reared under conditions which have been banned in Britain . |
| 18 | The gilts are reared on land which is dry and exposed to the sun . |
| 19 | Six of these are intended for documents which are predominantly composed of one type of text ; the other two are provided for use with texts which combine these basic tagsets . |
| 20 | In preparing this report they must carry out such investigations as will enable them to form an opinion on ( a ) whether proper accounting records have been kept by the company and whether proper returns adequate for their audit have been received from branches which they have not visited and ( b ) whether the company 's individual accounts are in agreement with the accounting records and returns . |
| 21 | Multinationals have in the past been checked by laws which require Indians to take majority shareholdings in foreign companies operating in India . |
| 22 | 14 of Ralph 's trucks are trapped in jams which stretch for 100 miles or more ; victims of a blockade by French lorry drivers . |
| 23 | In both the Old and New Testament people are addressed through concepts which are already familiar to them . |
| 24 | Equally , large European Community ( EC ) grants had been attracted to Portugal which frequently lacked the infrastructure or administrative machinery necessary to absorb them in the most productive manner . |
| 25 | We are surrounded by animals which keep track of their fellows by scent yet we can not even smell a human trail , let alone follow it . |
| 26 | They have been nominated for exhibitions which have been held outside London or abroad . |
| 27 | Models are organised into units which we call regiments . |
| 28 | Troops are organised into units which , in the case of Orcs and Goblins , are called Mobs . |
| 29 | Models are organised into units which we call regiments . |
| 30 | Moreover , children are attracted to telephones which ‘ demand ’ to be picked up and spoken into , and the prohibitions which adults usually place on children 's use of these instruments serves only to enhance their attractiveness . |