Example sentences of "which [is] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , another advantage is erm , with various er chores , which is copying or deleting files . |
| 2 | It is news management by ministers which is suspected and it is very difficult to prove . ’ |
| 3 | Upper : the upper part of the boot which encases the foot and which is sewn or glued to the sole unit . |
| 4 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 5 | One is that regulation seeks to control economic life , yet it is this which is recognized as responsible for the material well-being of the community . |
| 6 | In relation to the exercise of a profession such as medicine , the fact that a person has acted in accordance with practice which is recognized as proper by a responsible body of persons skilled in that profession means that there has been no negligence . |
| 7 | The morpheme which is glossed as " father " may have extended meanings when it is used in other contexts , but its real meaning is " father " in its ordinary English sense of " male parent " . |
| 8 | Curriculum is learning which is planned and provided for a purpose . |
| 9 | For example , Kerr ( 1968 , p. 16 ) defines the school curriculum as ‘ all the learning which is planned and guided by the school , whether it is carried on in groups or individually , inside or outside the school ’ . |
| 10 | What is easier to handle is information — and management information which is planned and delivered in predetermined packages should be particularly straightforward . |
| 11 | In N 2 , is raised in energy and becomes less bonding through mixing with of the same symmetry , which is filled and lies below it : is lowered in energy and becomes less anti-bonding by mixing with the empty which lies above it [ see Fig. 6.16(b) ] . |
| 12 | economic about Taiwan and there 's a great deal of irony in this because you know here you are in the nineteen fifties in China rich peasant economy which is accepting and preserving inequalities |
| 13 | Reports in the press or on radio or television must not reveal the name or address of the child , his school or any other information which is intended or likely to identify him ( s97(2) ) . |
| 14 | A principle is enunciated which is intended and designed to regulate a certain real situation X. Another principle regulates another real situation , Y. When a novel situation Z arises for which no principle has apparently been specifically designed , the law is determined by examining the extent to which Z is closer to X or to Y. If it is more analogous to X , then the legal principle regulating X will ordinarily be invoked . |
| 15 | I am prepared to answer at once : ‘ Why Christ , of course , and our love for him which is fed and watered by the prayers of his people in his Church . ’ |
| 16 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 17 | These embellishments are crucial , for they give rise to the two forms of the Shakespearian Equation : ‘ In the first form , the tragic form , the hero rejects the Goddess and is killed by the boar ( arriving as madness ) , which is to say that he is transformed by it . |
| 18 | Wittgenstein is here opposing our natural inclination when we start philosophising , which is to say that what matters is not the use of the expressions ‘ I know ’ , ‘ I remember ’ , ‘ I hope ’ , but a mental phenomenon — or process or activity — of knowing , remembering , hoping . |
| 19 | None of which is to say that Galway 's anguish is not fully justified . |
| 20 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 21 | There is ‘ unity of command ’ which is to say that each member of the organisation only has one direct supervisor . |
| 22 | Ruth Lowinsky 's book is a true period piece , which is to say that in its time it was bang up to date . |
| 23 | Further ( 7 ) the causal circumstance is dependently necessary to the effect , which is to say that the effect dependently necessitates the circumstance . |
| 24 | The objection involves the feeling or perhaps the conviction that we can never state or explicitly describe such a thing as a causal circumstance is said to be , which is to say that we can not do something like give a complete enumeration of its elements : we can not give particular or individuating descriptions of all of them . |
| 25 | As specified , a causal circumstance includes no more than was needed to necessitate the effect , which is to say that it included just a set of conditions or events such that if the set existed , so did the effect , and still would have even if certain other conditions or events had also existed . |
| 26 | To remedy this , he suggests that arts education must be shown to be " vocational " , which is to say that arts should be shown to provide education for living , acting , doing , knowing , thinking , and enjoying . |
| 27 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 28 | ‘ The secret was kept in the way most secrets are kept , which is to say that although the truth did not get out , something got out . |
| 29 | ‘ Which is to say that the idea of being married to him offends you ? ’ |
| 30 | Which is to say that defences are being erected to protect the integrity of Western culture , of the Western idea . |