Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] be [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The flysheet is made from nylon which has been polyurethane coated .
2 In the 1920s , an uncle founded the Barrandov film studios that were to have their finest hour with the Czech New Wave of the Sixties , and his father was responsible for and owned , among other buildings , the Lucerna block in the heart of the city which has been part of the life of most Pragers , with its remarkable collection of art-deco restaurants , bars , cinemas and concert hall .
3 It would be very wise if the Left advocated the policy of land-value taxation , which has been part of Liberal policy this century .
4 You can at least see or hear , which has been part of your ordinary physical development .
5 He has provided a much needed corrective to the over-individualistic approach to conversion which has been characteristic of many western evangelists and missionaries .
6 This undoubtedly developed a practice of regional collegiality which has been characteristic of the post-conciliar Church .
7 What they have grasped is that the other is a dubiously soft touch who knows she 's been lucky so far and feels guilt-ridden enough to want to put something back into the public melting pot which has been kind enough to approve of her .
8 Carter are touring America in a huge tour bus , which has been home to the ten-strong crew and band for a month-and-a-half .
9 Romance and elegance are the hallmarks of this sophisticated city which has been home to more great composers and inspired more great music than anywhere else on earth .
10 A spooky tale about a woman who returns to the stately which has been home to the Stafford Dynasty for hundreds of years .
11 ‘ I can not express in words the love and care which has been show to me by all my Christian friends since Mam died . ’
12 A smaller amount was to go to the theological college which I had attended and which has been host to many students from Africa . )
13 Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass .
14 Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist
15 I ended up giving a sample of blood , which has been tissue typed and partially matched to someone in need of a transplant .
16 The stumbling block which remains is security within companies .
17 The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything …
18 On May 11 the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the largest party at national level , won a seat in the Sabah State Assembly for the first time , defeating the candidate of the ruling United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) which had been part of the UMNO-led National Front central government coalition until just before the October 1990 general election [ see pp. 37780-81 ] .
19 The art awards , he continued , were in keeping with the best traditions of the P&O SN Co , which had been part if the maritime history and development of Australia since 1852 .
20 The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes .
21 Some districts which had been forest in 1300 were however excluded in 1641 .
22 Three modal types can be distinguished : industry-wide , multi-employer bargaining which is external to the firm , as practised in much of Western Europe on wage-related issues ; single enterprise or firm bargaining , as typically found in the USA and Japan ; and economy-wide systems between trade union and employer central confederations which have been characteristic of several countries , including Norway , Sweden , Denmark and , at times , the Netherlands .
23 And most shops in the region are now dusting off the platform shoes and diamante brooches , which have been centre of the autumn collections of the last 50 years .
24 This may well mean developing the range of presentational skills which have been part and parcel of effective classroom teaching for generations .
25 All of which have been precision engineered to last a lifetime .
26 Call upon Councillor to move a motion , details of which have been circulation .
27 This may be right but what counts is leverage , not force .
28 What matters is survival in the here and now .
29 Julia Hailes has brought realism to green politics , a view that what matters is change , not how you arrive at it .
30 What matters is access to Japan 's markets ; America would be content if Japan increased its imports and exports by the same amount ( leaving the trade balance , and the associated accounting identities , undisturbed ) .
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