Example sentences of "which [verb] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth area concerns information from the professional bodies , directed to specific areas , rather than generalised campaigns , which tend to be both expensive and ineffective . |
| 2 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |
| 3 | While the Japanese record of productivity improvement has been remarkable , aggregated data masks substantial variations according to firm size which tend to be more marked than in most other advanced economies . |
| 4 | In more wooded country with old hedges , you will almost certainly come across the field rose R. arvensis , the hips of which tend to be more orange than red , becoming blackened as the winter progresses . |
| 5 | Secondly , some of the typical patterns that emerge , those which tend to be more specialized in mission , goals , strategies and functions and to be more oriented towards market relations to handle their functional alignments , for instance , will tend to be a part of a broader economic system in which the isolation of the focal organization makes only limited analytical sense . |
| 6 | ( a ) the Code provides wider protection than most statutory frameworks in other countries , which tend to be more rigid ; |
| 7 | This can be a particular problem with hounds , which tend to be less territorial than some other breeds . |
| 8 | It may seem paradoxical , but New Historicism 's acknowledgement of a great complexity and subtlety between text and history and its hesitancy to make generalised claims for a culture has so far produced critical analysis of texts which tend to be recognisably similar to one another . |
| 9 | Not only can information which may take considerable time to locate but which needs to be as up-to-date as possible be handled by Prestel but the ability to communicate personal , one-off inquiries to the information providers is a great advantage . |
| 10 | But this form of presentation , which needs to be quite formal , what other students have found is that if you dress formally actually it helps you to act formally , because this sort of presentation is going to be very different . |
| 11 | A Deed of Covenant is a legal document which needs to be correctly drawn up and signed . |
| 12 | This rather crude form of collegial evaluation tends to induce a certain kind of conservatism in teachers , an attachment to existing classroom methods which appear to be reasonably successful in keeping results high and noise levels low . |
| 13 | Greater weight is given to propositions which appear to be broadly consistent with the general law governing the area in which the proposition arises . |
| 14 | Even novels which appear to be furthest removed from the lives of those who wrote them — the work of Kafka , of Lewis Carroll , of the contemporary feminist writer Marge Piercy — have drawn on the real life surroundings of their authors . |
| 15 | Equally , I think we like to set up experiments first before plunging for something , so you have got in Countess Thorpe , or the Stantonbury Campus , experiments in a fuller kind of democracy which appear to be very successful if a little controversial . |
| 16 | Constructional forms already described have been intricate in detail but simple in general outline , but some natural forms have origins which appear to be much more complicated . |
| 17 | Sometimes conditions develop which appear to be relatively benign , the fish continue to feed well are active and seem happy . |
| 18 | Recently the neurochemists have come up with a set of toxins which appear to be fairly effective in destroying only cell bodies , leaving axons intact ( Kohler et al . |
| 19 | The discourses of science and philosophy , for example , which appear to be entirely directed towards some external referent and whose intelligibility would seem to depend on their transparency , are simply an effect produced by language itself . |
| 20 | again one of those things which appear to be under financial pressure , I mean , one of our most respected adult school members at national level was actually awarded the M B E for his work in Wandsworth Prison , where he ran an adult school for thirty years . |
| 21 | Cutler 's insufficiently dialectical treatment of the forces/relations nexus reaches its biggest problem in his discussion of the recording form itself , which has to be both the ‘ ultimate ’ musical commodity and to offer creative liberation . |
| 22 | You can picture it , ca n't you , as the daily dumper truck tips out hundreds more envelopes , each of which has to be laboriously slit open , the contents unfolded , date-stamped , sent to the right person to be read . |
| 23 | Indeed this is the heart of Hilton 's argument for the validity of mixed life for the aspiring contemplative , for he says that this very desire , the burning coal which has to be thus nourished by a positive attitude to the demands of both active and contemplative life , is in fact God himself at the very ground of our being . |
| 24 | Because successive political elites import political commitments into office with them , they do create a distinctive ‘ atmosphere ’ for policy-making inside the state apparatus — a set of values and a terminology for expressing them which has to be widely adopted by other personnel , such as bureaucratic agencies . |
| 25 | In particular the idea of a ‘ promotion culture ’ which has to be carefully managed is to be explored . |
| 26 | Their launch system is protected by a cover which has to be physically raised by a crew member before use . |
| 27 | But of course , of course is if there is any evidence whatsoever er of financial mismanagement in the police authority it is a matter which has to be properly investigated . |
| 28 | Much of the market uncertainty which has to be organizationally buffered in the West is displaced outside the organization in Japan . |
| 29 | Thus what Strange calls sterling 's role as a ‘ negotiated ’ currency — a top currency on the slide , which has to be constantly defended — emerged enormously strengthened from the Attlee period , and this must be seen as a major part of the legacy of that government . |
| 30 | Marketing is the one function of management which has to be more concerned with what is going on outside the organization than with what is happening internally . |