Example sentences of "which be [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this book Nash brings together those works of popular fiction ( hereafter popfiction ) , which are traditionally conceived of as lying outside the literary canon and linguistic theories pertaining to discourse analysis and the stylistic analysis of fiction . |
| 2 | He notes that Mackie compares values to colours , and describes both as things which are normally thought of as existing independently ( and which conceivably might have done so ) but which a reasonable scientific view of the world exhibits as not really there . |
| 3 | Competence is a many-sided quality which reaches beyond those virtues of initiative and on-the-spot decision-making ability which are normally expected of field staff . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is particularly applicable to large database and on-line transaction processing systems , says Price , which are often composed of very large applications and tasks . |
| 6 | On this bass the two single-coil J-type pickups are Bartolinis , which are often thought of as almost over-efficient , with a too-bright sound , but this characteristic ( shared by the Pedullas reviewed recently ) can be modified by the onboard circuitry . |
| 7 | It 's very interesting that it 's in Sussex and East Kent that , just in the border there , that some of the most exotic Puritan names that you sometimes hear about , Praise God Bare Bones and Deliverance Smith and these kind of weird names , which are often thought of as typically Puritan , in fact are very narrowly defined to a geographical area , and in time . |
| 8 | But there are other difficulties on Golding 's island which are never spoken of on Ballantyne 's like the need for food . |
| 9 | What objects do you know which are now made of plastic but which used to be made from wood or steel ? |
| 10 | A general rule could be made that weak syllables which are phonologically composed of a plosive or fricative consonant plus are uncommon except in initial position in the words . |
| 11 | Just about level with the Straits of Gibraltar and 1,300 kilometres from the Portuguese coast are the Azores , a small group of islands which are entirely built of volcanic rocks , where eruptions took place in 1957 and 1973 . |
| 12 | But most existing transparent magnets — which are usually made of iron borate — are not actually all that magnetic . |
| 13 | The services of tableware always included numerous saucers which were invariably made of white silver ; they were not gilded owing to the constituents of the sauces , such as lemon juice , which would tarnish the gilded metal . |
| 14 | Many foods which were once thought of as ‘ exotic ’ are now readily available in every High Street . |
| 15 | The formation of new lobes is only one part of the story , for as soon as a distributary abandons a lobe , which is thus deprived of its sediment supply , marine erosion can set in . |
| 16 | A question which is frequently asked of office holders is : ‘ By what authority can you tell me to do such and such ? ’ |
| 17 | Can he give the House any information about how it has been possible for the NHS , which is supposedly starved of funds , to find the money to buy that hospital ? |
| 18 | She warned that the new movement , which is mainly composed of far left ecologists and radical feminists , would treat the Greens as " opponents and enemies . " |
| 19 | In this chapter I shall be considering some of the great historical Western moral philosophers of the past , confining myself , however , to the period of modern philosophy , which is usually conceived of as starting in the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | In this context the object of evaluation is always a system which is usually composed of a structure and a process element . |
| 21 | Even regulation , which is usually thought of as con-straining , is often facilitative of commercial activity . |
| 22 | But Britain , which is usually thought of as a democracy , especially by the British , does not meet even that criterion . |
| 23 | Here was a princess who was catholic , although she belonged to a family which is usually thought of as arian . |
| 24 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
| 25 | This is described by another commentator as ‘ a disposal of the grey , day-to-day business of reconciling interests , a fear of the pragmatic soiling of ideals through political compromise , a distaste for cool reason , which threatens to corrupt the hot dictates of the heart , the primacy given to principle , the loyalty to fundamentals , to ruthless coherence instead of to balance , to compromise , which is always thought of as ‘ lazy ’ and close to ‘ horse-trading ’ if not ‘ treachery ’ . ’ |
| 26 | But in between all these things something happens which is only spoken of in hushed whispers . |
| 27 | In the morning it was achieved by the Professional Fred Rhodes , and after lunch by Mrs. Quain ‘ but from the ladies ’ tee ! ’ the following year the 16th was holed in one again and earned the Standard 's comment as a ‘ feat which is seldom heard of ’ . |
| 28 | This brings us to the second proposition , which was evidently begotten of inability to answer that difficult , because inherently unanswerable , question . |
| 29 | ‘ ( a ) when himself in breach of contract , exclude or restrict any liability of his in respect of the breach ; or ( b ) claim to be entitled — ; ( i ) to render a contractual performance substantially different from that which was reasonably expected of him or ( ii ) in respect of the whole or any part of his contractual obligation , to render no performance at all , except in so far as the contract term [ i.e. exemption clause ] satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . ’ |
| 30 | Where one party enters into a contract as a consumer , or on the other contracting party 's written standard terms of business , so that s3 applies , the Act provides ( in s3(2) ) that " the other " ( ie the non-consumer , or the party on whose written standard terms the contract is made ) can not by reference to any contract term — ( a ) when himself in breach of contract , exclude or restrict any liability of his in respect of such breach ; or ( b ) claim to be entitled — ( i ) to render a contractual performance substantially different from that which was reasonably expected of him , or ( ii ) in respect of the whole or any part of his contractual obligation , to render no performance at all , except in so far as … the contract term satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |