Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company which dares to be different . |
| 2 | Erik Keiserud , the head of UNI 's board of administrators , says a foreign investor , which insists on being nameless , has also proposed a solution . |
| 3 | But it 's undeniable that , for many women , the status which goes with being a wife is important . |
| 4 | Initially , SEATS will replace the Company Bulletin Board service introduced in April 1992 to permit investors to display their buying and selling orders in securities which ceased to be traded on SEAQ because they did not have two marketmakers ( see ACCOUNTANCY , June , p 44 ) . |
| 5 | During the late spring and summer of 1937 the revolution was well and truly rolled back in two of its former strongholds : Catalonia , which ceased to be autonomous within Republican Spain , and Aragon , where the CNT-dominated Council of Aragon was physically destroyed by Communist forces . |
| 6 | Details of the military arrangements , which ceased to be operational in February 1991 [ see pp. 38026-27 ] , were not released . |
| 7 | Among the structures which received attention at that meeting but which failed to be included in the final Charter was the creation of a pan-European Assembly . |
| 8 | She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village . |
| 9 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |
| 10 | This is an area only recently receiving attention , increasingly by using statistical tests for ‘ normalcy ’ : such studies should bring some objectivity to the assumptions which tend to be made at the moment about the character of individual or groups of hoards . |
| 11 | The effects upon the actual records overshadowed some equally great revolutions behind the scenes , which tend to be forgotten . |
| 12 | But many others , which tend to be more niche , specialised and smaller businesses , have done very well in world markets . ’ |
| 13 | However , Kaldor recognised that there is , in fact , a difference between capital gains , which tend to be unique or non-recurrent items , and income , which is recurrent . |
| 14 | So there are three factors which may stop women getting as good value from credit as men : less awareness of credit costs , and of their rights ; credit-worthiness indicators ( such as employment and housing status ) which tend to be associated with unreliable payers and to be more common with women than with men ; and perhaps occasional outright discrimination . |
| 15 | This can be a particular problem with hounds , which tend to be less territorial than some other breeds . |
| 16 | Any settled society has right and wrong ways of living together — not least revolutionary societies , which tend to be conformist beyond all others . |
| 17 | Hassocks , West Sussex-based distributor Hypersoft Ltd has added ICL Plc Cobol support , to its ‘ mainframe to micro ’ analysis tool , Application Browser : it 's a move designed to fill the gap in the market for analysis tools , which tend to be written for IBM Corp mainframes ; the combined use of ICL Cobol and embedded languages like IDMS removes the threat of syntax errors , so easing re-engineering and maintenance processes ; Application Browser runs under MS-DOS and costs £4,000 , the company said . |
| 18 | I paint directly using simple compositions , which tend to be linear , even flat , rather than based on any sophisticated concept of leading the viewer 's eye into the picture . |
| 19 | While the Japanese record of productivity improvement has been remarkable , aggregated data masks substantial variations according to firm size which tend to be more marked than in most other advanced economies . |
| 20 | a rejection of all foreign models of development which tend to be materialistic , dehumanising and which fail to recognise the creative developmental efforts of our own people as the requisite basis for a sustainable developmental process ; |
| 21 | This is rare in cars of this type , which tend to be fun for the driver , but a bore for anybody unlucky enough to end up in the back . |
| 22 | In more wooded country with old hedges , you will almost certainly come across the field rose R. arvensis , the hips of which tend to be more orange than red , becoming blackened as the winter progresses . |
| 23 | Black people can be denied eligibility by rules which were originally drawn up for completely different purposes ; property let to ethnic minorities tends to be of lower quality than that allocated to the white population ; and black families , which tend to be larger , may not find council accommodation which is large enough for their needs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | This may sound rather woolly , but it is in fact the instrumental arguments which tend to be woolly in failing to show the relationship between instrumental means ( more business studies graduates ) and desirable ends ( more happiness , justice , freedom ) . |
| 25 | Secondly , some of the typical patterns that emerge , those which tend to be more specialized in mission , goals , strategies and functions and to be more oriented towards market relations to handle their functional alignments , for instance , will tend to be a part of a broader economic system in which the isolation of the focal organization makes only limited analytical sense . |
| 26 | Because here your situation , the murder that has been committed , is if anything more static , and your detective 's progress towards unravelling it is liable to become a rather dull series of minor discoveries , often arising from interviews which tend to be similar in pattern . |
| 27 | There is a range of views and practices , most of which tend to be responsive . |
| 28 | which tend to be written in every key other than the one we want them . |
| 29 | The fourth area concerns information from the professional bodies , directed to specific areas , rather than generalised campaigns , which tend to be both expensive and ineffective . |
| 30 | that such an arts education fosters those long established cultural traditions and normative assumptions about gender which tend to be inhibitive rather than enriching of personal development and sensibility , and discouraging rather than encouraging of purposeful action in the world . |