Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am confident that these issues are something about which the hon. Gentleman knows absolutely nothing . |
| 2 | Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality . |
| 3 | That entity must be based on consensus and it must be one to which the British people will willingly belong because they appreciate the advantages to which the hon. Member for Chichester has already referred . |
| 4 | The ideal level of feeding is generally accepted to be one in which the fish is slightly hungry and ready to forage actively for food , most , if not all of the time . |
| 5 | The structure of the Act of 1986 may initially be thought to be one in which the categories of authorised person and exempted person are mutually exclusive categories . |
| 6 | A less extreme form of control would be one in which the courts draw the boundaries for the legitimate exercise of discretion . |
| 7 | A third form of constraint would be one in which the courts subject the exercise of administrative discretion to a set of more specific substantive principles . |
| 8 | Although not particularly liberal on moral issues , it recognises that a climate of opinion in which people can discuss sexual and emotional matters will be one in which the birth control campaign is more likely to succeed . |
| 9 | A ‘ perfect ’ market in economic theory is of course meant to be one in which the product is broadly comparable , entry and exit is possible , and price information is readily available to the consumer . |
| 10 | Are they about what the new settlement should be like , if so is that an appropriate consideration for the structure plan . |
| 11 | ‘ The pain you feel now is nothing to what the others will do . |
| 12 | Given that ‘ ideas ’ are things which , like sensations and feelings , are essentially mind-dependent , the third premiss is something with which the philosophically sophisticated would agree ; it is , too , something with which the vulgar , if persuaded to consider the matter , could easily be brought to agree . |
| 13 | Sex is something with which the vast majority of any audience will be intimately familiar in one form or another , and this places the performances of the actors under unusually close scrutiny . |
| 14 | The conclusion to which we can come is that cannibalism is rare but that , in extremis , it is something to which the human species will resort . |
| 15 | Of course , isolation is something to which the rural working population , particularly in the upland areas , has long been accustomed . |
| 16 | It is something of which the Tories must be truly terrified . |
| 17 | The second was that the son ‘ could be expected to have some influence over his elderly parents , and that is something of which the plaintiffs … should have been aware . ’ |
| 18 | That is something of which the Government are enormously proud . |
| 19 | This intimacy also is something for which the world still waits . |
| 20 | Informal spoken discourse is something in which the modern foreign language learner , with opportunities for travel and social contact , is most likely to wish to succeed , but also the discourse type he or she is likely to find hardest , precisely because it is so informal and unpredictable . |
| 21 | The fourth issue is something in which the Minister will not be at all interested — European competition in the 1990s . |
| 22 | An agreement which is described as a lease or a rental is essentially a contract of hire and a hire agreement is one under which the possession of the goods passes to the other party but the property in the goods ( the ownership ) remains with the supplier . |
| 23 | A beneficial health care activity is one that generates a positive number of QALYs , and an efficient health care activity is one for which the cost per QALY is low . |
| 24 | The position is more complicated where one of the classes of liability concerned is one for which the UCTA forbids exclusion or restriction . |
| 25 | There is a very sound reason for this in that depreciation is not a cash item and is one over which the departmental manager has little control . |
| 26 | A servant is one over whom the employer reserves the control and direction of the mode in which the work is to be done . |
| 27 | The question of whether the compulsory audit for small companies should be retained is one on which the views of practitioners dealing with small companies particularly deserved to be heard . |
| 28 | The issue of whether breach of the CSA 1985 will provide a basis for liability in tort for breach of statutory duty is one on which the courts have not yet been asked to decide . |
| 29 | This is the main issue of principle which I have to decide , and is one on which the defendants side with the plaintiffs against the submission on the part of the Bank of England that the answer to this question is in the affirmative . |
| 30 | That matter is one on which the people of Hong Kong feel very strongly . |