Example sentences of "[noun] be [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underestimating the speed of events or overestimating the efficiency of personnel are factors which lead to slippage in any work programme and their early detection is essential to effective progress monitoring . |
| 2 | America and Germany are countries which are particularly good at recruiting and keeping in regular contact with their supporters , which makes it far easier to galvanise them when you need them most in the run-up to an election . |
| 3 | When enterprises plan their production on the criterion of profitability they are only honouring their obligation to their shareholders — — to earn them a reasonable return on their money — and if those shareholders are institutions which are in turn merely trustees of the people 's savings … well , evidently notions of class struggle and exploitation must be out of date . |
| 4 | The most relevant categories to compare in such cases are ones which are immediately in contrast to one another . |
| 5 | Coercive inducements are inducements which are so powerful , and so difficult to refuse , that they come to act as a kind of coercion . |
| 6 | Activities are actions which take time eg filling kettle , pouring tea . |
| 7 | Dummy activities are actions which do not incur time , but need to be shown to ensure the logic of the network . |
| 8 | Choropleth maps are maps which show the distribution of the magnitude of a variable such as population density for each of a set of areal units such as counties or enumeration districts . |
| 9 | Dies are tools which can be used in presses to produce a particular shape usually by stamping or bending e.g. car body panels . |
| 10 | Values are rules which are not attached to particular roles but are more general standards concerning worthy behaviour ; for example , injunctions like ‘ Uphold the Law ’ , ‘ Respect Private Property ’ , ‘ Work Hard ’ , ‘ Protect Family Life ’ , etc. reflect the kinds of values typical of Western industrial societies . |
| 11 | Two of these are astrocytes , which are supporting cells occupying the spaces around the nerve cells ; the third kind are oligodendrocytes which wrap closely around the nerve , providing an insulating layer which speeds conduction of the nerve impulse . |
| 12 | Soleras are wines which carry the date of the vintage wine with which the solera was begun . |
| 13 | A certificate will be issued by the court only if the improvements are ones which are reasonable and suitable and which will add to the value of the premises and do not detract from the value of any other property belonging to the landlord . |
| 14 | Your essays are answers which try to satisfy these requirements . |
| 15 | Genetic make-up , early childhood socialisation , class divisions and inequalities of opportunity are things which we either do not know how to change , or would involve a degree of social and economic transformation which is very unlikely to be embarked on in the name of reducing crime . |
| 16 | Any Associate is recruited with the prospect that he or she will be eligible for partnership after a few years : business development abilities , superior counselling skills in the field and a deep commitment to the firm and its progress are qualities which will rapidly become determinant . |
| 17 | Sponsorship of sporting events and patronage of the arts are methods which are being used increasingly to promote an organization 's reputation with the public . |
| 18 | In that sense , the methods are tools which I share with the others . |
| 19 | I think environmental discount and environmental considerations are factors which we 'll come back to in in looking at the migration rates , so you 're going to have another shot at this one . |
| 20 | DB2 , IMS and IDMS are DBMS which are examples of different database types ( we will look at object-oriented DBMS separately , they have only recently been available ) . |
| 21 | However , many Type A organizations are monopolies which challenge the validity of this argument . |
| 22 | In and around the long-abandoned quarries are millstones which the workers had barely started on ; others with their circular shapes and central holes ; a few even have the radial grooves or ‘ harps ’ chiselled into them , ready for use in the flour mills ; but all left lying when the trade collapsed under competition in the eighteenth century from imported French Burr stones , which were thought to be of better quality for the purpose . |
| 23 | The subjects are things which have caught a national mood exactly , like ITMA , The Goons and , last Friday , Look Back in Anger . |
| 24 | The two largest beneficiaries are Salisbury which will receive £870,000 over the next three years and Ely , which gets £690,000 . |
| 25 | Digitizers are machines which perform this task . |
| 26 | A , the apple , bequeathed these two E 's as a bit of posthumous R , R being revenge which ought to come later , and shall . |
| 27 | The cost of one card is £15 which will admit up to 12 people . |
| 28 | The highest price on record for a Picasso is £28.1m which was paid in May for his self-portrait , Yo Picasso , of 1901 ; the highest price for any picture at auction is the £30.9m paid in 1987 for Van Gogh 's Irises . |
| 29 | The result is music which is overloaded with restless movement of little significance . |
| 30 | They edit games and the result is highlights which bear NO resemblance to the actual match . |