Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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in turn merely trustees of the people 's savings … well , evidently notions of class struggle and exploitation must be out of date . |
| 3 | The most relevant categories to compare in such cases are ones which are immediately in contrast to one another . |
| 4 | Coercive inducements are inducements which are so powerful , and so difficult to refuse , that they come to act as a kind of coercion . |
| 5 | Activities are actions which take time eg filling kettle , pouring tea . |
| 6 | Dummy activities are actions which do not incur time , but need to be shown to ensure the logic of the network . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dies are tools which can be used in presses to produce a particular shape usually by stamping or bending e.g. car body panels . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Soleras are wines which carry the date of the vintage wine with which the solera was begun . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Your essays are answers which try to satisfy these requirements . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In that sense , the methods are tools which I share with the others . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , many Type A organizations are monopolies which challenge the validity of this argument . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The subjects are things which have caught a national mood exactly , like ITMA , The Goons and , last Friday , Look Back in Anger . |
| 19 | The two largest beneficiaries are Salisbury which will receive £870,000 over the next three years and Ely , which gets £690,000 . |
| 20 | Digitizers are machines which perform this task . |
| 21 | By far the smallest of the utilities is Timekeeper which needs just 13K . |
| 22 | What many of them use now to get their highs are solvents which , as you can read on page 28 , can and do kill . |
| 23 | Antibodies are proteins which , once synthesized by cells of the immune system to counter and inactivate ‘ foreign ’ molecules , enable the body to retain the ‘ memory , for the intruder and hence the capacity rapidly to inactivate it on subsequent invasion . |
| 24 | The alienation of large numbers of teachers , and their uneasy relationships with students and communities are problems which will not vanish overnight . |
| 25 | These models are constructions which are aimed directly at influencing the development of law . |
| 26 | In the cellars are cupboards which are unusual in that they are made of the wood from the boxes used in the sugar trade with Brazil . |
| 27 | Refugees are people whose lives have been shattered by intolerance , persecution , torture and fear of death . |
| 28 | It depends on the fact that standard effects are events which in the most fundamental sense can be explained . |
| 29 | To say that effects are events which in a fundamental or standard sense can be explained is to say this : there is a possibility of our finding a proposition which fully answers the question of why they occurred . |
| 30 | We have to take the supply of bills to be the existing stock because , as we said above , bills are securities which can be traded . |