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

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1 By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility .
2 It has a range of public rooms all of which are designed to be light and airy .
3 Ford of Europe announced that it is to make over 10,000 job cuts by the end of 1993 , about 40% of which are expected to be in the UK .
4 The band are currently scheduling a series of autumn dates in the UK , details of which are expected to be announced within the next two weeks .
5 The supplementary budget , details of which are expected to be approved by the cabinet in the next few weeks , will include ¥25–30 billion ( US$225–$270 million ) for 11 supercomputers and mini-computers to be shared among six science-related ministries and agencies ( see table ) .
6 The dilemmas of decision making for families and social workers are then related to the legal routes into care , some of which are shown to be misused in practice .
7 The activity posited by Brentano , secondly , is common not only to seeing and other perception , thinking in the sense of deliberating or judging , and also remembering , intending , and deciding , all of which are ordinarily thought to be in different ways active , but also pain and other sensations , dreaming , experiencing an emotion , and being subject to a mood , all of which are thought to be in different ways passive .
8 The names and dates of birth of all parents of case and control children ( regardless of whether or not they were interviewed ) were cross checked against three databases of employees held by the nuclear industry , the completeness and accuracy of which are known to be high .
9 In Part I women talk about so-called conventional therapies which include years of swallowing powerful hormonal and fertility drugs , like Perganol and Clomid , both of which are known to be dangerous .
10 On these features are imposed several other psychological symptoms , many of which are known to be common to semistarvation , irrespective of its cause .
11 However , there are marked variations in biomass of Colohus spp. in Africa and Presbytis spp. in Asia in different forests and these can not be explained in terms of the overall degree of herbivory of an individual species or its body size , both of which are known to be correlated with biomass in primates as a whole .
12 During the breakdown of these types of bleach , many different kinds of organo-chlorine substances can be produced , some of which are known to be highly toxic and carcinogenic .
13 For instance , in South-Eastern fashion , I name that commodity the love of which is said to be the root of all evil as ‘ munny ’ ; my Birmingham friend calls it ‘ mon-ay . ’
14 The US Agriculture Department has proposed the use of irradiation to kill salmonella and other bacteria in raw poultry , some 40 per cent of which is believed to be contaminated with salmonella .
15 Moreover , at least since the nineteenth century there has been a spillover into the State schools of the ethos of the independent boarding schools , the purpose of which was understood to be as much moral as academic , with character-training high on the agenda .
16 This provided the basis for contextual ratings , the most important of which was found to be long-term threat .
17 External locus of control was measured on four items , no more than one of which was allowed to be missing .
18 More generally , there was a growing belief over the 1960s and into the 1970s that Britain 's industrial problems could be overcome through more vigorous entrepreneurship , the supply of which was held to be ‘ market-determined ’ .
19 According to the Bush administration , the war was estimated to have cost about $50,000 million , most of which was expected to be offset by contributions of $36,000 million made recently by Japan , Saudi Arabia and Kuwait .
20 During 1989 and early 1990 , in addition to the May and September 1989 attacks listed above ( both of which were believed to be connected with the Koskotas affair and with the November 17 Revolutionary Organization ) there were a number of small bomb attacks against cars and buildings , which caused material damage and sometimes injury but no deaths .
21 It is difficult to achieve truly three-dimensional accuracy with this method , but mathematical precision was not a prime requirement in Roman commissions , most of which were intended to be displayed in a setting with a restricted angle of view .
22 Relations improved with Egypt and Syria , while Yemen and Jordan , both of which were perceived to be sympathetic to Iraq [ see pp. 37728 ; 37927 ] , became increasingly marginalized ; in addition full diplomatic relations were re-established with the Soviet Union [ see below ] .
23 Earlier the court had been shown a quantity of bricks and stones some of which were said to be bloodstained , and a heavy iron bar .
24 Some , however , were concerned about the nature of the play activities , almost all of which were seen to be based on some kind of violence .
25 Lacking a majority in either chamber , he asked senators and deputies for 180 days of extraordinary legislative powers to launch an economic anti-inflationary plan ( details of which were expected to be announced in August ) , with the intention of restoring Peru 's relationships with international lending agencies .
26 He was punished for publishing The Light and Dark Sides of God ( 1650 ) , copies of which were ordered to be burned , although George Thomason [ q.v. ] was still able to acquire a copy in November of the same year .
27 With an ill-fated exuberance which only a government in its last stages could achieve , Lloyd George succeeded in assembling five nominations for peerages , four of which were alleged to be discreditable .
28 Privatization would fall into two categories : the sale of state-owned shops and restaurants , which had in fact been under way since May 1 ; and the sale of state-owned factories and enterprises , 40 per cent of which were envisaged to be in private hands within three years .
29 The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires .
30 Trapped in a cost-cutting spiral , Computone and Specialix — plus Chase Research Inc which is rumoured to be courting a buyer — are being forced to streamline their organisations .
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