Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [Wh det] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had her all-round cords , and Cheryl noticed the crossed flags of the Signaller among the array of badges which were on her right sleeve . |
| 2 | Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system . |
| 3 | Israel , he said , would be allowed to complete a pre-agreed number of houses which were in the process of construction in the occupied territories at the start of 1992 , in exchange for US$300 million in guarantees immediately and the remaining US$9,700 million staggered over six years . |
| 4 | The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal . |
| 5 | The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler . |
| 6 | Instead he sees them as occupying a number of strata which are in ‘ contradictory class locations ’ . |
| 7 | The treaty has advanced Europe , but it is a Europe of nations which is on trial . |
| 8 | However , a search in town and country reference libraries ( and local studies collections ) will reveal titles of books which are worth acquiring , especially on the subjects of the impact of indigenous trade , industry , and agriculture on the well-being of local populations . |
| 9 | Checking of relationships which are to be indicated under each of the terms . |
| 10 | An extension of time relieves the contractor of liability for liquidated damages for delays up to the new completion date caused by the occurrence of risks which are outside the contractor 's responsibility . |
| 11 | The courts are faced simply with a set of words which are in fact capable of bearing two meanings . |
| 12 | A number of demands which were to be raised by the civil rights movement were taken up by the manifesto . |
| 13 | By taking the set of compounds which are to be used and replacing each word within the compound by its corresponding root-index the storage requirement is drastically reduced . |
| 14 | The accountant ‘ deals with the business , but not the personality , of the client ’ and ‘ a wilful activity necessitates legal services which are initiated , and can be terminated , at the will of the client ; but the necessity of contacting a doctor emerges out of circumstances which are beyond human control ’ ( p.27 ) . |
| 15 | THE SECRETARY of State for the Environment has a duty — not just a power — laid on him by parliament , to compile lists of buildings which are of historic and architectural interest . |
| 16 | We ought therefore , in the battle of ideas which is at the centre of the political struggle , to be confident in the strength of our intellectual case . |
| 17 | Turning its back on influences such as the distortion of art , systematic distortion , anti-photography and anti-perspective , the work of the Pop Artists represents a restoration , a reintegration of ideas which are of great interest to me and which perhaps appear extraordinary . |
| 18 | You could draw up a checklist of topics which are of current concern to your students to help you select suitable items from news programmes . |
| 19 | It is hoped that study of supply side aspects of macro-economic behaviour would increase the relevance of the model to the researchers ' studies of problems which are at the moment ill-fitted to discuss . |
| 20 | His explanation of adaptation in a sense was that it occurred as a result , as he said , of the natural selection of variations which were in their origin non-adapted in some sense , random . |
| 21 | There is here a choice of readings which is in some ways not so very different from the sort of choice available in |
| 22 | In this chapter we shall discuss certain characteristics and properties of matrices which are of particular importance in dynamical studies of systems with multiple degrees of freedom . |
| 23 | On the analogy of a choice of means we might suppose that he would choose in terms of principles which are behind his ends as the ends are behind his means , and as before would resist as bias all spontaneous inclinations in either direction . |
| 24 | In order to split the Listing into a series of manageable files , the user can indicate the maximum number of pages which are to be generated in any one version of a file . |
| 25 | Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’ |
| 26 | It should be clear by this time that if there is one critical statement entirely and absolutely wrong , it is the one quoted at the start of this chapter , about The Lord of the Rings not being ‘ moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être' . |
| 27 | being human , nearly always answer that they have those rights , whatever they are , which will promote a distribution of goods which is in the interest of their own social group . |
| 28 | This will be so particularly in the case of goods which are of a very low price , so that there is little income barrier to their purchase . |
| 29 | As Lord Diplock said in Ashington Piggeries : The " description " by which unascertained goods are sold is , in my view , confined to those words in the contract which were intended by the parties to identify the kind of goods which were to be supplied . |
| 30 | Although , as shown in Figures 4–6 , above , the proportion of ‘ initial failures ’ was relatively small , with none recorded in the case of material issued from the Advocates ' Library , and with only 4% and 3% of all deliveries from the Main Building and the Annexe falling into this category , they nevertheless merit close attention , since delays in the provision of items which are in fact available on the shelves can be a considerable source of irritation for both readers and members of staff . |