Example sentences of "which [verb] be [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course measuring , which has been one of the most important areas of work in road racing over the past few years , has certainly not suffered for want of funding . ’ |
| 2 | Hence the belated and misguided call from Kenneth Baker for longer school days — again betraying a rather narrow view of the use of time — which has been one of the unremarked and growing features of secondary curriculum development of the last twenty years . |
| 3 | They are devout members of the hierarchical Catholic Church , which has been one of the main influences on their lives . |
| 4 | The event , which has been one of the most successful new launches in recent years , is now in jeopardy for the coming season , although both the RYA and James Capel are seeking a last minute sponsor . |
| 5 | of having sort of help set something off and then tiptoe away which has been one of my functions , that , that , that it can happen |
| 6 | Mr Alan Houghton , group director of the Selby mine complex , of which Stillingfleet is one of five collieries , said : ‘ Everybody knew exactly what we were doing . |
| 7 | Sales of polythene and PVC , which had been two of ICI 's mainstay products , had suddenly plummeted . |
| 8 | The innate vivacity which had been one of her main attractions , seemed to have deserted her . |
| 9 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 10 | The process , which had been one of the original aims of Schuman and Monnet , was to culminate in a formal treaty of friendship in 1963 . |
| 11 | Government involvement in the planning of the use of national resources , which had been one of the necessities of wartime , was continued by the Labour government as a matter of principle . |
| 12 | Well-meaning and pious , he was of mediocre intelligence and inherited the timidity which had been one of Louis XV 's greatest weaknesses . |
| 13 | However , the conference decided that the government should take action against those guilty of the deaths of Sikhs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 [ see pp. 33220-21 ] , which had been one of the Sikhs ' main demands . |