Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think some of them are ones which genuinely religious people would not adopt ? |
| 2 | But theirs are reasons which apply to them and which do not depend on , i.e. are not meant to reflect , reasons which apply to their subjects . |
| 3 | We are tears Which were never shed . |
| 4 | They are processes which , once started , end up producing a particular outcome at a later point in time . |
| 5 | But Stainforth understands mountains as well , and while they also have their own structure , they are changelings which we can not take for granted . |
| 6 | His past is made up very largely of futures — plans , expectations , anxieties , fantasies , dreams and visions — but they are futures which are closed : every forward thought is stalked by death . |
| 7 | But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system . |
| 8 | They are actions which appear irrelevant to the circumstances , and are generally performed at times of motivational conflict . |
| 9 | It is early days yet to see how the ideas of Total Quality Management will affect the way in which schools operate but I have no doubt they are concepts which are of great usefulness to education . |
| 10 | In other words , they are abuses which are very common , and can be generally reduced by better health understanding . |
| 11 | To take examples from either side of the Atlantic , both Tom Peters ( 1988 ) and Charles Handy ( 1989 ) are beginning to suggest very different approaches to management , and interestingly they are approaches which reflect far more accurately the needs for collegiate management in schools . |
| 12 | They are forces which are spreading wealth faster than at any time in human history and in one 's political approach I think you either are an enthusiast anxious to embrace the forces that are at work or you are a sceptic , perhaps inclined to resist them , hoping that you can frustrate them . |
| 13 | In general terms the narrow range of investments are fairly , very safe and secure investments , but they are ones which are less likely to secure higher returns but of course also , less likely to secure risks of low returns . |
| 14 | ‘ Easily the most promising , ’ judged Pacey , in 1961 ; and George Woodcock added that Leonard was one ‘ who could write lines which are no longer good imitation Yeats ; they are lines which only Yeats could have imitated . ’ |
| 15 | And while it 's very reassuring that schools have n't changed too much — I do n't think we want everything to change overnight — I think you could say that schools are open to the same criticism as of British industry at the moment , that they are institutions which perhaps are changing too slowly for the demands of the modern world . |
| 16 | They are phrases which indicate a topic of interest ( i.e. your focus ) and at the same time point towards a particular kind of discussion ( i.e. your mode of argument ) . |
| 17 | Freud came to see , later , that human beings are not predisposed to admit that they are organisms which die and are destructive any more than they had been prepared to admit that young children , under five years of age , were sexual . |
| 18 | Possibly they are birds which have failed to breed successfully and have assembled here to moult . |
| 19 | They are idealizations which serve to ‘ cover and to evade the actual and bitter contradictions of the time ’ ( Williams , 1973 , p. 45 ) . |
| 20 | They are rules which are not merely morally but legally binding : they are enforced by the courts . |
| 21 | Obviously , too , they are policies which will take years of consistent application before they can bear fruit . |
| 22 | But they are arbitrations which contractually-incorporated rules and commercial practice make exempt from the requirement of submissions and oral evidence . |
| 23 | To entertain the idea that they are matters which are open to discussion is in fact deeply offensive . |
| 24 | Here they are conflicts which are collective in character , not just within the individual . |
| 25 | They are topics which will have occupied student-teachers during their own language-learning with differing degrees of explicitness and consciousness , and therefore are similarly relevant to the learners they now face . |
| 26 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 27 | Well as I 've s as I 've said earlier , erm what we 're basically saying is that because these erm sites do not perform a greenbelt function and er they then fall into a white land situation , that that white land is a is an area of land that becomes er at the end of the plan period in two thousand and six , er they are areas which could be considered development . |
| 28 | They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand . |
| 29 | They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand . |
| 30 | These are not baby habits , but they are habits which have a link with babyhood experiences . |