Example sentences of "which [am/are] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rebellion of the American colonies in the eighteenth century confronted the British with an axiom which , for reasons which are capable of being understood , they found so unpleasant that more than two centuries later they have still not ceased attempting to wish it out of existence . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , we shall include under the notion of a man 's property in its widest sense all rights which are capable of being transferred to others , of being made available for payment of his debts , or of passing to his representatives on his death . |
| 3 | Products which are capable of sterilising are either so noxious or corrosive in the concentration required that they can not be used . |
| 4 | CLE-I is written in Prolog , and translates English sentences into formal representations of their literal meanings which are capable of supporting reasoning . |
| 5 | In addition , and despite the astronomical odds against it , there are already non-human species which are capable of learning and problem solving ; birds , dolphins and dogs to name a few . |
| 6 | The smallest being the size of a box of matches to the largest which are capable of winching a 40lb load . |
| 7 | I 'd say there 's a real lack of good-quality , basic , no-frills bass guitars at the moment , basses which are capable of producing a warm , user-friendly , real wood tone . |
| 8 | To meet this need , high-power video lights have been developed from earlier photographic types which are capable of being run for long periods at full power . |
| 9 | There are more than 70 models currently on the market which are capable of 140mph or more . |
| 10 | Finally there are fractions — ‘ ensembles which are capable of becoming autonomous fractions , according to the criterion of pertinent effects ’ . |
| 11 | Without wishing to get too involved in technicalities , it is worth explaining that a fail-safe structure is one in which there are one or more pieces of redundant structure ( i.e. not subject to loading in normal flight ) which are capable of carrying the flight loads in the event of a failure of the primary load bearing structure . |
| 12 | The second , is the economists ' statistical training in answering questions which are capable of quantification . |
| 13 | The only assumption one makes in using such expressions is that in the corpus of writings referred to there are some characteristic uses of language , which are capable of abstraction as a style . |
| 14 | Leadership is usually defined in terms which relate a ‘ vision ’ of the future to some ‘ strategies ’ for achieving it , which are capable of co-opting support , compliance and teamwork in its achievement and serve to motivate and sustain commitment to its purpose ( after Kotter , 1988 : 25–6 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 16 | Faced with a given set of words which are capable of conveying that meaning it is not surprising if the words are accepted as having that meaning . |
| 17 | The difficulty is that the indicators of this integration which are capable of being treated quantitatively ( to enable such a comparison ) are likely to be culturally determined and to vary from one community to another . |
| 18 | A very wide range of techniques is available , which are capable of revealing different types of pattern in a set of data . |
| 19 | Amongst the key molecular components of the membrane are a number of proteins which are capable of forming reversible chemical links to phosphate ions . |
| 20 | The conclusion must be that monitoring and review should proceed alongside other quality control exercises which are more pragmatic , which introduce a wider range of data , and which are capable of addressing the question of optimality as well as the question of adequacy . |
| 21 | The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems . |
| 22 | Their Hedgerow Renovation Scheme is designed to bring back into good management selected hedgerows that are in poor condition , over- grown , gappy , thin or neglected , but which are capable of restoration . |
| 23 | Further trimming can be carried out on smaller diamond saws , which are capable of producing thin slices . |
| 24 | At a time when the world 's largest nuclear power is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , if not worse , and when 27,000 nuclear weapons exist there , the vast majority of which are capable of inflicting considerable damage on this and other countries , it would be lunacy for us to undermine our nuclear deterrent . |
| 25 | They still , of course , have that function , but more and more the Fund 's resources are being invested in influencing those agencies which are capable of generating the much larger sums of money required to carry out these long-term programmes . |
| 26 | It is thus an aggregative process of data analysis , and should produce measures which are capable of analysis by standard statistical methods . |
| 27 | The apparatus consists of a thermostatted chamber , saturated with solvent vapour at the temperature of measurement , and containing two differential matched thermistors which are capable of detecting temperature differences as low as 10 -4 K. Two syringes , one for solvent and one for solution , are used to apply a drop of solution to one thermistor , and a drop of solvent to the other . |
| 28 | The other criteria I I I I tend to agree with are matters which are capable of being weighing and balancing against each other and they are not overriding , but I think those three matter which I specified are overriding and would rule out any location . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) The only interests or charges in or over land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An easement , right or privilege in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute ; ( b ) A rentcharge in possession issuing out of or charged on land being either perpetual or for a term of years absolute ; ( c ) A charge by way of legal mortgage ; ( d ) … any other similar charge on land which is not created by an instrument ; ( e ) Rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute , or annexed , for any purpose , to a legal rentcharge . |