Example sentences of "which [pron] is [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , there are usually distinctions drawn by neighbour and old person alike concerning the nature of the activity which it is appropriate to offer and to accept . |
| 2 | The only price level which it is rational to expect if the position of the aggregate demand curve is expected to be AD 1 is P 2 , since only this expectation will generate an actual price level equal to it . |
| 3 | Personal reincarnation , of course , is something which it is impossible to prove or disprove , although theories and beliefs abound . |
| 4 | A black hole is a region of space from which it is impossible to escape if one is traveling at less than the speed of light . |
| 5 | BA still has a marketing agreement with United , which it is keen to preserve and the appointment last week of Sir Gordon White of Hanson Industries to the BA board is seen as improving the airline 's negotiating skills in the US . |
| 6 | Although firms may use a variety of contractual and structural techniques to try to deal with these problems , the uncertainty surrounding the extent to which it is possible to exclude or modify fiduciary obligations by contract or disclosure and consent , and as to the extent to which the use of Chinese walls provides protection as a matter of private law against allegations of breach of fiduciary duty , means that these techniques can not be relied upon exclusively . |
| 7 | ( In the light of which it is pleasing to discover that in 1566 , when Rainoldes was a 17-year-old student at Oxford , he acted the part of a female in a play composed tor Queen Elizabeth — see Paine , The Learned Men , 23 ) . |
| 8 | It tends to depreciate the role of purpose and to maintain , explicitly or implicitly , that the function of thinking is to study a sequence of events which it is powerless to influence or to alter . |
| 9 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 10 | Back at his home near Florence he completed his book on hydrostatics , in which it is interesting to see that he was nonplussed by the fact that a thin flake of ebony , though denser than water would nevertheless float . |
| 11 | The law defines conservation areas as ‘ areas of special architectural or historic interest , the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance ’ . |
| 12 | This gave statutory recognition for the first time to the area concept , and made it a duty of local planning authorities ‘ to determine which parts of their areas are areas of special architectural or historic interest , the character of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance ’ and to designate such areas as conservation areas ' . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) The denial that there is some one and the same quality of pleasantness and another of painfulness which mark all those experiences which it is desirable to promote or prevent is a more forceful objection to Benthamite utilitarianism . |
| 14 | A picture intended to show the pulling strength of the tractor will need to be quite different in composition from one designed to show the gradients which it is able to climb or the revolutionary design of a new gearbox . |