Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This emphasis reappears in the ‘ process ’ justifications of higher education , advanced both by its providers and consumers , in terms of training the mind , learning to think , developing autonomy and so on , notions which are to some extent ‘ subject-free ’ , and which will be explored further in Chapter 4 . |
| 2 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 3 | I have so far dealt only with what might be considered extraneous matters which are of little concern to the non-collector , who can read and enjoy a book without worrying about endpapers , half-titles , advertisements and the rest ; though even the ordinary reader must reach a point where bibliographical matters begin to impinge . |
| 4 | An ongoing project is concerned with the assessment of mineral deposits such as building materials and industrial minerals for local use ( which are of little interest to international mining companies ) , and the development of techniques for beneficiating minerals from such deposits . |
| 5 | " Meanings " are neither equated with speakers ' intentions , nor with recipients ' interpretations ; both are looked on as mental entities which are of little interest as long as they do not " materialize " in interaction . |
| 6 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 7 | Given the huge disparities which are of such enormous benefit to those at the top of the scale , who will pick up the bill ? |
| 8 | Nevertheless there are a number of DBMS , possibly the most well known being IDMS , which are of this type . |
| 9 | That report would include such grants as we may feel are of a which are of more corporate nature , rather than specifically a service based one , and how we would recommend the council to deal with them . |
| 10 | Beyond the page-turner are the real semi-literate books which are of another kind entirely . |
| 11 | Much of this area has been introduced by the analysis of social distance ; there are , however , other social factors which are of some importance . |
| 12 | Before turning to the grounds of appeal there are two matters which I must mention which are of some importance . |
| 13 | Serious errors , such as the two examples given , are usually corrected very quickly , but many newspaper readers who have personal knowledge of a news item find inaccuracies in reporting which are of less importance and which do not get corrected . |
| 14 | But , in true South African style , it also owns large stakes in other subsidiaries outside mining , which are worth another 9 billion rand . |
| 15 | They believe the goods , which are worth several thousand pounds , were all stolen by one gang . |
| 16 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 17 | The sort of things that we cover in the er er code of practice for charging to clients which are outside this . |
| 18 | There is also attendance allowance and there are various things like that which are outside this . |
| 19 | For this reason , and because of the limited use for such general data-types , the only data-types smaller than a word which are at all commonly provided for in the instruction set are half-words , characters , and decimal digits . |
| 20 | The country is divided into thirty-two states which are in many respects self-governing , with laws differing from state to state , although all are subject to the national federal law . |
| 21 | Each quotation describes a journey in a carriage taken by the protagonists of works which are in many cases those whose titles bear their names : Emma , Madame Bovary , Clarissa , etc . |
| 22 | It is perhaps hard to see what Picasso found to admire that was common to both tribal sculpture and the work of Cézanne , two arts which are in many ways diametrically opposed . |
| 23 | Selling old books , which are in many cases out of date , has raised £41.64 for the Cancer Relief MacMillan Fund . |
| 24 | The trouble with this method is that there are still more definitions required , for example , all of the signal control terms which are in another chapter . |
| 25 | I argued that the representational theory of mind , with its assumption that thinking is the possession of determinate ‘ mental states ’ which are in some sense encodings ( pictorial , syntactic ) of actual or possible states of affairs , contributes to the difficulty of the mind-body problem . |
| 26 | Both combined lead to political conclusions which are in some ways akin to those of Rawls : political action should be concerned with providing individuals with the means by which they can develop , which enable them to choose and attempt to realize their own conception of the good . |
| 27 | It is the fear of losing love , friendship , or both that provides the means whereby the conscience warns the individual of the consequences of performing acts which are in some way hurtful to other creatures . |
| 28 | The trouble is that whereas actors move and speak as nature would have most of us do ( only rather better ) , in the performance of music we are using tools ( with the exception of the human voice ) which are in some way external ; they have to be mastered from without rather than from within — and things do go wrong . |
| 29 | Things are put together which are in some way alike or belong together . |
| 30 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |