Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be [noun pl] which " in BNC.

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1 It makes no sense to contemplate a general policy of reducing adverse events in people 's lives , even if it were possible , unless perhaps they were crises which might unavoidably lead to the person becoming trapped into a highly stressful lifestyle .
2 So there is a real question whether or not there are sensations which are not ours , but it is evidence-transcendent .
3 Moreover there were functions which only the lord himself could carry out , particularly in matters of justice , for as a baron of Scotland , Ramsay had the power of pit and gallows , conferring on him the right and duty to adjudicate in most issues not reserved to the crown , a grave responsibility for a man who took his obligations seriously , and one in which his brother could not replace him .
4 Possibly they are birds which have failed to breed successfully and have assembled here to moult .
5 Formerly there were glow-plugs which had to be warmed before the engine would fire .
6 Even now there are theories which say that quarks are made up of other things and so on , so I mean who knows .
7 Often there are discoveries which lead nowhere and do not attract much , or indeed any attention .
8 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 .
9 Rather they are considerations which should be taken into account by drivers in seeking to pursue their own destinations .
10 Here they are conflicts which are collective in character , not just within the individual .
11 Mostly it is services which are traded , but goods can be used as well , ’ says Mary Ringland , from the One World Centre in Belfast .
12 Indeed there are things which suggest that not only did vase-painting at Athens in this time move pari passu with free painting and sculpture but that the same person may sometimes have worked in more than one of the three crafts .
13 And then there are cases which do not seem to correspond with any of the given meanings .
14 Then there are others which are just common sense .
15 But if one is not fundamentalist ( and not simply working as a literary critic ) then there are questions which need to be brought to the text .
16 Then there are waters which do not provide the same good spawning facilities ; maybe a lack of shallows and plant life in which to lay eggs and milt .
17 Then there are theories which try to avoid any direct metaphysical commitment , but none the less conduct their analysis of experiences in terms of certain characteristics — albeit a special type of characteristics — of physical bodies .
18 Fortunately there are techniques which allow us to apply our results on finite programs to general purposes : syntactic approximation allows us to identify every program with a set of finite ones .
19 Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future .
20 Yet there are features which are difficult to explain on this hypothesis ; caves are known in places at the rear of the beach and occasionally stacks , examples being on the west coast of Arran near Imachar ( Plate 32 ) , which could hardly have withstood freeze-thaw and salt weathering capable of flattening the metamorphic rocks involved .
21 Secondly there are things which would have occurred , if he had not acted thus , but not as consequences of some alternative action of his .
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