Example sentences of "[conj] which be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 There are numerous records of actions being taken against plays which were considered slanderous to nobles or which were perceived to be in political opposition to government policy , such as Middleton 's cause célèbre , A Game of Chess , which opposed James 's accommodating attitude towards Spain and attracted the protest of the Spanish ambassador .
2 When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death .
3 All schools could identify additional resources , ( for instance , computers , a music laboratory , enhanced INSET , staff ) that had been purchased and which were perceived to be available entirely as a result of devolution .
4 This term was reserved for the rural dialects , which had been legitimized by nineteenth-century investigations , and which were believed to be ‘ genuine ’ in a way that urban dialects are not .
5 The decisions , tantamount to a significant downgrading of COMECON ( as also indicated by a sharp staff reduction at the Moscow secretariat ) , and which were expected to be approved at a future summit meeting , were the outcome of an undertaking made at the summit meeting in January [ see p. 37202 ] to review existing COMECON arrangements to allow for the wider operation of market principles .
6 Stylistic categories are more complex phenomena which are often difficult to define , but which are assumed to be describable in terms of linguistic categories , although they are not a necessary part of the description of a language .
7 The latter course kept the family together , a consideration which became increasingly important during the first half of the twentieth century , but which was believed to be open to abuse unless the state assumed the role of the male breadwinner and insisted on good household management and sexual fidelity .
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