Example sentences of "which [is] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 2 | The four owl species , barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , and Verreaux eagle owl , are grouped in category 1 ( Table 3.14 ) which is characterized by consistently low enamel digestion on the molars of microtines and other rodents , both in degree and in numbers of teeth affected , with no alteration on insectivore teeth . |
| 3 | Two samples are collected ; a — 150 mesh sediment which is analysed for up to 28 elements and a panned concentrate which is examined microscopically and may be analysed for particular elements . |
| 4 | Consider an example from the new Collins Cobuild dictionary ( 1987 ) , of which Sinclair is editor-in-chief and which is based on just the kind of computer analysis of text that he refers to . |
| 5 | The second one is erm a bottom up study which is based on today 's commitments but projecting them forward into the timescale in which we will have the aircraft and looking in that way to see how many and and in what way we would need them . |
| 6 | Does not this necessitate a definition which is based on neither lawyers ' rhetoric nor a reaction to it but on what they actually do ? |
| 7 | An investigation to assess the accuracy of this impression ( which is based on only a small sample of requests ) should , however , be conducted before any steps are taken to reorganise the delivery of such items at lunchtime . |
| 8 | From this perspective , the success of Labov 's work in New York City , which is based on more widely-known variables , suggests that New York City speech is much less divergent from mainstream American English than Belfast is from mainstream British English . |
| 9 | It has been criticised there on the grounds that any decision on lending which is based on how many characteristics an applicant shares with good or bad payers can not directly reflect the reality of whether or not that individual will be a good payer . |
| 10 | But the failings are not a reason for abandoning a system which is based upon very reasonable principles , although not always working in practice . |
| 11 | Bashir Maan , the chairman of Strathclyde Community Relations Council , which is funded by both the region and the CRE , was unavailable to comment on Mr McNeil 's remarks . |
| 12 | As well as being classified , many establishments have applied for grading which is indicated as e.g. Approved , Commended etc . |
| 13 | Expression was also absent from the spleen which is composed of up to 50% B cells , although Oct-11 is expressed in the plasma cell line P3/NS1/1-Ag4.1 ( see below ) . |
| 14 | The democratic aspiration in its classical form is doomed — an outcome which is viewed with either glee or regret according to the political orientation of the theorists concerned . |
| 15 | All other stress components are zero as are the strains except for which is given by where u is the displacement measured on a fiducial length l . |
| 16 | Digital Equipment Corp will launch three new Alpha workstations running the OSF/1 operating system tomorrow , April 20 , adding a new high end model and two entry level machines — the cheapest of which is priced at less than £5,000 . |
| 17 | Taxis refers to the kind of order which is made and which is imposed from without ; it is the order of an organization . |
| 18 | 71 ) , which is dated to c. 360 ( Walters and Phillips 1980 , 6 ) . |
| 19 | [ In the second type there is ] … a natural increase which is offset by outwards migration so that the overall result is one of population decline … . |
| 20 | Here the veracity or otherwise of charges of witchcraft activity is tested by the chief 's own oracle , which is credited with almost infallible powers . |
| 21 | In order to infer that the effect of X on Y is a direct causal effect , any variable which is related to both X and Y and causally prior to at least one of them must be controlled . |
| 22 | I was interested to read that in Japan half of all 16-year-olds reach a standard in maths which is reached by only 2 per cent . |
| 23 | Their nearest crag is in Sweden , which is reached in only two hours by ferry . |
| 24 | Rustenburg Platinum Holdings is the holding company which is listed on both the London and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges . |
| 25 | The test machine contains a 10-kW turbine and a 4-metre rotor , which is turned by both incoming and outgoing tides ; it will be anchored to the sea bed and therefore needs none of the costly and environmentally damaging civil engineering works associated with other tidal power schemes such as barrages . |
| 26 | The target unemployment rate , is the outcome of a set of normative political preferences which is expressed with rather spurious precision in the social welfare function . |
| 27 | What he wanted in its place was put more colourfully , but very succinctly , when he said , also in 1965 , ‘ However , big the glass which is proffered from outside , we prefer to drink from our own glass ; while at the same time clinking glasses with those around us ’ . |
| 28 | Take the medium used in the trickle chamber which is made from finely spun ceramic material . |
| 29 | It is not necessary to draw only upon Eastern Europe for examples of a system of education which is centralised at almost every level below that of research work for higher degrees . |
| 30 | A new phrasing is now adopted and displaces the original motion , which is lost for ever . |