Example sentences of "which [is] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One solution , to do all this from Whitehall , which is allegedly under the scrutiny of the House of Commons , is impossible because of the extent and variety of the work .
2 Critics of the deal , which was worked out at ministerial level , say that it would have been more sensible to spend the money on rebuilding the Villahermosa Palace to be an annexe for the nearby Prado , which is urgently in need of more space , as well as the kind of modern facilities which have ‘ put the Villahermosa among the ranks of intelligent buildings and the top museums of the Nineties ’ , as the press release boasts .
3 The theory requires a low preglacial sea level , which is completely at variance with the conclusions of most Pleistocene research workers .
4 Metal is easily corroded , but the skill lies in producing an attractive colour which is even in tone and texture .
5 It could then be speculated that the high concentrations of α-linolenic acid ( which is exclusively from dietary origin ) , might be the result of a negative feed back effect upon delta-6 desaturase activity , mediated by an excess of docosahexaenoic acid ( C22:6n3 ) , the final product of this series .
6 ( 1 ) A change in the content of the curriculum is justified because it is the content which is intrinsically worth while and any improvement in content is ipso facto an improvement in education ; i.e. we change subject content for its own sake .
7 er I think councillor has made the case for the motion which he has put before us which is simply for a report to the environment committee which would deal with the the tactical if that 's the right that 's just been raised by councillor .
8 There was a small disturbance early yesterday , it emerges , at the famous entrance which is soon to be closed by Mrs Thatcher 's ornamental security gates .
9 Over the past 18 months more than 10 cases have come to light , one of which is soon to be pursued in court .
10 Can you manage to stick to a weight-loss programme when you have defined a time period , i.e. the three weeks until your holiday , or if you have to fit into certain clothes for a special occasion which is soon to be upon you , and do you generally find it difficult to stick to a diet for a longer period
11 Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ?
12 He is an expert in Package Dyeing ; a method which is soon to be introduced to the dyehouse as part of the new expansion scheme .
13 The new surgery was built though , inside a former psychiatric hospital , which is soon to be closed altogether .
14 Sir , it is my opinion that any development in area D thirty nine , which is wholly within the conservation area , would have those deleterious effects , and the same applies for D forty two D forty two .
15 If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message .
16 " At the bell " , which is somewhere in the region of two months — not weeks — before the date of the examination , you should start to work up your pace gradually and comfortably towards the final three-hour tests .
17 They may want to control the media capable of reaching large sections of the population , yet at the same time be suspicious of the power these media possess : power which is ultimately beyond their control .
18 In place of a fall from grace which is ultimately to be followed by a return to Paradise , we have the notion that mankind originally evolved out of a sub-human stage of bestiality .
19 Enterprise G U I is a tool which is presently in development er which is subject to an announcement in the June timeframe and in fact actually at the next customer update which is providing erm in June .
20 Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage .
21 If we turn to the literature which attempts to combine sociobiology with social psychology , we find the formation of youth subcultures being given an explanation which is largely at odds with that proposed by Marxism .
22 There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills .
23 Because the communities are so stable in relation to a centre which is largely in their imagination , it matters little whether in fact the real centre is itself actually in turmoil .
24 The most troubling of these measures is the first , which is presumably for the benefit of the security services .
25 There is a three or four page brief introduction er , to the book , which is presumably by Freud himself , because it 's about psychoanalysis , and I do n't think Bullitt could have written it .
26 Erm we are in the current process of reviewing our own or altering our own structure plan , the first alter alteration is going through consultation at the present moment and we 're estimating a need within that period of of actually fifteen thousand which is marginally above the regional planning guidance .
27 The Quartet is distinct from most examples of this genre , however , in that its focus is firmly fixed on its own status within a world which is increasingly under the control of non-verbal forms of communication .
28 In Thailand a traditional form of entertainment is proving invaluable in the nationwide effort to educate country people about AIDS , which is increasingly at an alarming rate in all areas of the country .
29 A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism .
30 And she 'll get all I have , which is n't to be sneezed at . ’
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