Example sentences of "which [prep] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This connected with the massive extension of the general process of commodification , which for Simmel was responsible for creating the characteristically blasé urban character , bereft of identity and inner meaning . |
| 2 | The extension of body , which for Descartes is its whole essence , is not for Locke the only consequence of what he sees as its essential property of solidity . |
| 3 | This implies that it can be characterized as an unsuccessful , or partly successful , effort by urban dwellers to achieve competence in ‘ standard ’ English ( which for Wyld is the English of the upper and upper-middle classes ) . |
| 4 | They hired a punt , which for Peter was a craft bristling with erotic potential . |
| 5 | Technically speaking , the only difference between VHS and VHS-C is in the length of the tape in the cassette , which for VHS-C is currently limited to forty-five minutes runtime at standard play speed ( ‘ PAL ’ machines ) , though this could increase as tapes are further improved . |
| 6 | Reverting to that basic unit proportion which for convenience is 500mm ( 19¾in ) , the outer eyelets are positioned this distance from the central eyelets and over the cross-spar in all cases . |
| 7 | But clearly the it forms two purposes , one is to remove the er the through traffic but also it it forms a purpose of redistribution of the traffic such that er there are er benefits er of getting er traffic off the A sixty one which for example is headed for the for the northern part of Harrogate and that that can come in from the South , it can go up to the A fifty nine and then come back into the northern part of Harrogate without having to pass through the centre of Harrogate . |
| 8 | Raskolnikov is self-divided and also separated from the human family in a way which for Dostoevsky is both social and religious . |
| 9 | The rhythmic dancing , the ritual gestures , the professionalism of the stripper all function to de-eroticize the process which for Barthes is a ‘ meticulous exorcism of sex ’ ( Barthes 1973 : 86 ) . |
| 10 | Yet most babies rapidly and without effort cross the language barrier , emerging slowly into self-consciousness and incipient moral agency , a barrier which for animals is insurmountable . |
| 11 | It is ringed by villages known as the ‘ seven towns ’ , which for centuries were sustained by the rights of common they enjoyed upon Otmoor 's lush pastures . |
| 12 | It can also offer a workforce which through experience is willing , adaptable and ready to retrain . |
| 13 | Very commonly , though , the road hierarchy is incomplete or elements of it are inappropriate , most frequently when major distributors are lined with housing There are thus disbenefits for residents on heavily trafficked streets to which through traffic is diverted . |
| 14 | This research was stimulated by a recognition that we might have a rare opportunity , through being granted privileged access to assault victims in a busy hospital accident and emergency department , to study serious assaults which may or may not have been reported to the police and , therefore , the definition of which as crimes is still open to question . |
| 15 | But someone had built on a large extension to the rear and this housed the kitchen , which as Meredith was to discover , was large , modern and furbished it seemed with every kind of modern gadget . |
| 16 | Animals that do this include fish such as the cod , which of course are highly mobile even as adults ; crustacea such as crabs and lobsters ; echinoderms such as sea urchins ; gastropod molluscs such as winkles , which are mobile as adults but are not able to travel huge distances ; and also — crucially — most of the animals which are sessile as adults — that is , remain immobile in one place . |
| 17 | CO 2 is also produced in huge amounts by burning fossil fuels — which of course are organic molecules built up by photosynthesis millions of years in the past . |
| 18 | Yet in spite of this physical transformation , the statistics of unemployment and homelessness , which of course are not cited by the LDDC , show that LDDC-led ‘ regeneration ’ has not trickled down very far into the working class communities of East London . |
| 19 | Another strand of our present voluntary sector are the self-help groups which of course are also going to be extremely individual , and one third point , Madam Chairman , the development of not for profit companies and things like that could also have a very individual strand to them as well since they sound a little bit like our existing small business sector under a community name . |
| 20 | She much rather wanted a real policy-research unit , which of course is what she 's now got . |
| 21 | Sometimes those who espouse notions of equal opportunity in education confuse that expression of intent with providing the same for everyone , which of course is a denial of equal opportunity . |
| 22 | In fact , most mortgages require that the structure of your home is insured , which of course is a much needed security in the event of burst pipes or flooding . |
| 23 | The necks are tinted to look aged , and with the pearloid and glitter scratchplates the impression is one of instant '60s kitch , which of course is very ‘ now ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ With having such a long time off , I 've lost a lot of speed but the endurance is still there , which of course is the key for anyone on the ultra scene . |
| 25 | All this has to be done on my off-duty time , which of course is limited and irregular since I work shifts . |
| 26 | Did Siemens AG buy a pig in a poke — the German 's , ever literal , call it a cat in a sack , which of course is what a pig in a poke usually turns out to be — when it bought Atlantic Richfield Co 's Arco Solar Power subsidiary in Camarillo , California for $35.9m in 1990 ? |
| 27 | Heath 's example is a hypothetical software firm 's development team , which claims to have developed the latest all singing , all dancing application , which of course is portable . |
| 28 | We did n't get the new name of Unir Corp 's version of Calico , the AT&T object-oriented language , right last week : its actually styling it C+ ( say Cat ) and continuing to call the environment Calico , which of course is a cat of many colours . |
| 29 | Heath 's example is a hypothetical software firm 's development team , which claims to have developed the latest all singing , all dancing application , which of course is portable . |
| 30 | Sources are now saying that Pinnacle 1 or HyperSparc , the Cypress/Ross version of a superscalar Sparc , that we pegged last week as debuting a 55MHz will actually be introduced as a 66.7MHz/70 SpecMark chip , which of course is faster than Viking . |