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

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1 I learnt something about myself , I learnt a little bit about how members of the class view me , certain physical characteristics which are habits which I try to stop .
2 Erm to be honest the revision getting a bit neglected it 's , we 've done most of our coursework , in most subjects there 's coursework which in some subjects which has to be , not , does n't have to be done before the exam but it 's preparation , preparation work for the exams .
3 In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food .
4 Central to these were the sterling balances which were liabilities which had accrued during the war largely to poorer countries within the Commonwealth .
5 And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else .
6 But before I leave this particular part of my criticism er perhaps er in case the minister er er does n't accept what I 'm saying I could quote er the words of the right honourable gentleman , the President of the Board of Trade er who writing before he was a President er in his book where there 's a will he said accountancy firms ought I believe , the debarred from doing any other work for a company for which they act as auditors and in a number of other countries there are laws which circumscribe auditors in this way and prevent to prevent any possible conflict of interest .
7 Also , as is explained in the Introduction to Part II , in some countries there are statutes which restrict the retention of personal data ( Ross 1993 : 80 ) .
8 Erhard and Adenauer now clashed on other issues but in an argument in May 1962 over custom duties it was Erhard who won the Bundestags support .
9 For Callinicos it is October which made the vision of social transformation ‘ concrete ’ .
10 FEEDING HELP is available from NCT Breastfeeding Counsellors who are mothers who have breastfed a baby and received training to give mother-to-mother non-medical support .
11 FEEDING HELP is available from NCT Breastfeeding Counsellors who are mothers who have breastfed a baby and received training to give mother-to-mother non-medical support .
12 FEEDING HELP is available from NCT Breastfeeding Counsellors who are mothers who have breastfed a baby and received training to give mother-to-mother non-medical support .
13 FEEDING HELP is available from NCT Breastfeeding Counsellors who are mothers who have breastfed a baby and received training to give mother-to-mother non-medical support .
14 On the walls of U-Bahn stations these days there are posters which have been put there by the Red-Green coalition which governs the city under Walter Momper .
15 Within all three poems there are passages which at least verge on sentimentality .
16 And , therefore , these days it is men who are oppressed , not women .
17 Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted .
18 Some days everyone who wrote with their left hand automatically received two lengths of the corridor , and on other days it was people whose name began with the letter ‘ S' ’ .
19 In all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat .
20 In these greenhouses there are seedlings which you can be fairly sure the neighbours wo n't have .
21 As with all siblings there were fights which Diana , being bigger and stronger , invariably won .
22 In Nina 's stories it is Modigliani who was pushed off the bench , made to carry the beer in for a party .
23 If all this bland fare has dulled your appetite for the prints it is time you reminded yourself how glorious they can be by a visit to THE LUCY B CAMPBELL GALLERY , 123 Kensington Church Street , W8 .
24 Everybody knows — including I think members of the Council from all three political groups — everybody knows that we 've got increasing numbers of elderly people , we 've got increasing numbers of disabled and mentally ill people in the community , and if there is one service , and I know there are others , but if there is one service that needs constant new growth it 's Social Services , and that 's not me empire building or anything like that , that 's me simply saying in straight managerial terms there are forces which require us to increase the Social Services budget .
25 At the back of the stalls there were radiators which had plush curtains and we would shove these cakes and sandwiches under the radiators , and the next time somebody ordered a ‘ cinema tea ’ we would go to the kitchen and order a pot .
26 Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective .
27 I have several friends who are farmers who regard foxes as a considerable pest .
28 Within organisations and even within departments there are values which take priority and create the culture .
29 In Difficulties with girls there are passages which recall that lift of the old proud head .
30 According to these employers it was teachers who needed WE more than pupils , so that they could get a picture of what engineering was really like ( as opposed to media misrepresentations — strikes , redundancies , etc. ) and so put across a ‘ good image ’ of engineering , hopefully attracting the ‘ brighter pupils ’ into the industry .
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