Example sentences of "a [noun sg] which be [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably the success of these steps which , in 1337 , caused Philip VI to decide upon the building of a naval base at La Rochelle , a base which was to be ceded to the English by the terms of the treaty of Brétigny , thereby underlining the significance of ports as pawns in international diplomacy . |
| 2 | Nicholson teamed up with his friend and former flatmate Don Devlin to write the script for a film called Thunder Island , a thriller which was to be shot with a tiny budget on a Caribbean island . |
| 3 | The law and procedure of his court have an international rather than a purely English character ; it administers a law which is to be found in the medieval maritime codes , such as the Laws of Oleron and the so-called Law of Rhodes ; in the background , as a supplementary law , is the Civil or Roman law . |
| 4 | This is a move which is to be welcomed , for with greater harmonisation of policies industry will be able to operate more efficiently through being able to plan within an environment of greater certainty , and will be more secure in the knowledge that its domestic and international operations are likely to receive compatible treatment from the respective authorities . |
| 5 | A package which is to be submitted for approval/has already been submitted for approval includes modules which are not listed on a corresponding Design Change ( DC ) . |
| 6 | Whereas the railways in the past had been an integral part of the cityscape , running down main streets , leaving in their wake a succession of railroad crossings on the classic American street grid plan , by the turn of the century they were already disappearing behind fences , into cuttings , or underground , a process which was to be speeded up in the years leading to the First World War . |
| 7 | The remains of hundreds of woolly mammoths from the Ice Agehave been found on a site which was to be turned into a rubbish dump . |
| 8 | There would be no appeal against the Court 's decisions ; by rooting the whole ECSC structure in the last resort in the rule of law , the drafters of the treaty introduced a concept which was to be of tremendous importance for European integration as a whole . |
| 9 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 10 | Rather the events he symbolically depicts are part of a larger design to reveal a historia , an unfolding of a pattern which is to be found both in the self and in a social and political fabric . |
| 11 | His passionate ambition was to lead a crusade against the Turks , and in so doing to unite Christendom — a vision which anticipated that of Charles V , and a policy which was to be a major preoccupation of both Charles and Philip II throughout the sixteenth century . |
| 12 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
| 13 | Tribal sculpture and the painting of Cézanne , both of which were used extensively by Picasso as sources for the Demoiselles , were to be the two major influences in the creation of Cubism ; in fact the constant inspiration which Picasso and Braque drew from the art of Cézanne and the stimulation which tribal sculpture provided for Picasso were the only important outside influences in the development of a style which was to be very self-contained . |
| 14 | No need , or less need , to plan more of a book which is to be written out of the right-hand side of your brain , out of intuition . |
| 15 | 7.3 If they touch on the point , discussions of restriction invariably proceed in a way which implies that the property of a restrictive adjective stands for a property which is to be ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase . |
| 16 | Many early stations were simply large barn-like structures , a form which was to be used for several decades . |
| 17 | A ship which was to be used mainly for conveying animals abroad needed work done to its hold : special hurdles , for instance , were required to accommodate horses . |
| 18 | These were the golden years of the secondary modern school — a school which was to be free , so it was thought , from the cramping effects of competitive examination . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , chapter 41 embodied in statutory form a principle which was to be resoundingly extended and proclaimed a century later by Wyclif : that church property might be recovered where the purpose of the original benefaction was neglected . |
| 20 | Extremely responsive to demand , a characteristic which was to be lost in the postwar period , it was inevitable that the WTA would become involved in the mid-1930s in the development of holiday camps . |
| 21 | To measure the strength of the magnetic field , he supplied a gaussmeter which was to be operated by the young Argentinian physicist , Dr Eduardo Balanovski . |
| 22 | Atkinson 's planning appears to have influenced Burn considerably , Blairquhan having the same stepped relationship of asymmetrical main block and a private wing ending in a low tower , a formula which was to be repeated in many Burn houses . |
| 23 | But the 1298 claim had set a precedent which was to be used again — especially by Edward III . |
| 24 | The Chairman for the evening — Mr R. Mulford — welcomed all present to an evening which was to be an informal discussion centred on Members ' reminiscences of the BCR in its working days . |
| 25 | The court also rejected an argument which was to be advanced , in varying forms , in many later cases : that the evidence sought could be provided within the territorial jurisdiction of the Californian courts either by the defendant 's officials travelling to California , or by the answers being provided by counsel in Los Angeles . |