Example sentences of "which [pron] [be] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lodgings/digs These are generally unpopular with most students because of cost , set meal times and general restrictions — such as the number of baths allowed — and the times by which you are expected to be home and in bed ! |
| 2 | The Other Woman has a category to herself in Silhouette 's construction of the necessary elements of the romance novel , an indication of the extent to which she is considered to be an essential ingredient : ‘ The Other Woman Usually means over sophisticated , well groomed . |
| 3 | What that basically means again is that for this particular blank here that we 're look at okay , the state value U might be one the weight might be one okay and we get that out of that cos we 're just going through all these here and seeing which one 's going to be one . |
| 4 | The market is the mechanism through which we 're forced to be competitive . |
| 5 | Well certainly not in the period during which we 're going to be discussing the various submissions , er un un at the E I P , now Mr Heselton , erm in a way your comments yesterday would probably be taken that Selby could cope , or would be prepared to cope , even with additional development , now you better sa tell me whether that 's true or false , and I 'm thinking particularly of that element of Greater Sel , of Selby which is in Greater York . |
| 6 | The four quarterly effects ( which we are assuming to be invariant during the time span of the data ) can now be estimated from the averages of corresponding quarters over these seven years . |
| 7 | They do not fit the conventional academic system in which there is seen to be little alternative provision for their needs , so they opt out altogether from involvement in school and wait resentfully for their official release at 16 . |
| 8 | This can be thought of as an investment — an expenditure today for which there is hoped to be a return in future years in the form of a lowering in the costs of production ( for a process invention ) . |
| 9 | Although there are two offences , murder and manslaughter , the latter includes two distinct varieties : ‘ voluntary ’ manslaughter ( killings which would be murder but for the existence of defined extenuating circumstances ) ; and ‘ involuntary ’ manslaughter ( killings for which there is no need to prove any awareness of the risk of death being caused , but for which there is thought to be sufficient fault to justify criminal liability ) . |
| 10 | Letters are not themselves sounds : they represent the sounds of the spoken language , of which there are considered to be about 44 in standard English . |
| 11 | One of the difficulties , I would imagine , is associated not just with the level of cutbacks , but also the scale of time in which they 're have to be implemented . |
| 12 | The extent to which they are felt to be a big deal for the pupils will mirror the extent to which they are felt to be a big deal by their teachers . |
| 13 | The extent to which they are felt to be a big deal for the pupils will mirror the extent to which they are felt to be a big deal by their teachers . |
| 14 | Buyers often attempt to include express warranties stating that goods will be suitable for the purpose for which they are intended to be used by the buyer , or suitable for the purpose for which they are ordinarily or generally used . |
| 15 | Clearly hospitals must respond to the changing patterns of disease with which they are going to be faced . |
| 16 | Few general texts , but most monographs , use footnotes-either at the bottom of the page or at the back of the chapter/book — The validity of historians ' views are largely determined by the evidence upon which they are claimed to be based . |
| 17 | The matter is further complicated by the fact that the disclosure letter will almost always say the disclosures are made by reference to the warranty to which they are thought to be most applicable , but they also apply to all warranties . |
| 18 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 19 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 20 | It was positively dangerous because it involved the Jews in a game in which they were bound to be discredited . |
| 21 | Perhaps they felt pity and affection for the animals moving through a world by which they were doomed to be destroyed . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the company was called upon often without a word of preparation — to treat on a subject with which he was presumed to be familiar , and so to express himself that what he said could be discussed afterwards . |
| 23 | If the S.M.O. was right , which he was bound to be , being a very experienced physician , then the crisis would come any time from the day after tomorrow — when I would be on nights ' off . |
| 24 | The naked body of Diana Travers , his domestic servant , was found drowned at his wife 's Thames-side birthday party , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 25 | Four weeks ago a girl who worked for him , Diana Travers , was found drowned following a party given for his wife on her birthday , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 26 | This is a duty to take reasonable care for the visitor 's safety for the purposes for which he was permitted to be there . |
| 27 | His description of the group culminates in the famous formulation of the " perfect law of art " of which it is said to be the embodiment : |
| 28 | As I have explained in Working Paper 43 , and developed in Organizing Resources , this indexing system depends upon the initial production of " features lists " , or lists of subject headings , the subject facets which it is desired to be able to retrieve from the system . |
| 29 | ED 65 states that , if changes in values are not recognised , there should be a positive statement , immediately below the SCFW , that the measure of comprehensive income is incomplete , and an indication of the manner in which it is considered to be incomplete . |
| 30 | Outline four ways in which Venus is known to resemble the Earth , and four ways in which it is known to be strikingly different . |