Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’ |
| 2 | If private property is to be legitimate within the framework of a liberal society it is also necessary to show that there are constraints which prevent it from becoming a source of power which threatens the liberty of the individual or rivals the power of the state . |
| 3 | Tappert also lists four experimental cursive script recognition systems , although literature suggests that there are others which he does not mention , or that have appeared since his paper was published . |
| 4 | This chapter has tried to suggest that the poor image project work seems to have as a teaching method is not a necessary one , and that there are strategies which teachers and schools can employ to ensure that it becomes purposeful and systematic . |
| 5 | It is therefore hardly surprising that there are firms which have chosen to take out what is effectively ‘ protective authorisation ’ ; in other words , while they have no intention of conducting any investment business , they regard authorisation as a sensible precaution in case they inadvertently slip into it . |
| 6 | To a certain extent this is correct , but those who know these waters intimately will perhaps agree that their reputation can be exaggerated , and that there are advantages which other coastlines do not possess . |
| 7 | They hint that there are secrets which can only be divulged and discussed with those who have also been there … |
| 8 | Although I should have preferred there to be no reduction , the fact that the priorities within the Northern Ireland block are law , order and security inevitably means that there are consequences which fall to other matters , and housing is one . |
| 9 | Experience tells us that there are organizations which fall between the profit-oriented and the Type B non-profit . |
| 10 | It is formal in that there are purposes which define the reasons why the transaction is taking place . |
| 11 | The evidence for this is that some scarps cut across several sizeable craters , whereas others are cut by sizeable craters , indicating that there are scarps which are older than appreciable numbers of sizeable craters , whereas others are much younger . |
| 12 | If we ask whether there were ancient documents which showed that the primacy went back to authoritative sources , the answer ( as I shall argue later ) is that there were documents which gave general support to the claim , sufficient to authenticate the living tradition of the community , but insufficient for use in a court of law . |
| 13 | It was found that there were problems which were common to both the payroll and the interface projects enabling them to be solved by the same remedy . |
| 14 | Her instinct , almost irresistible , was to throw it at him , but she was fast learning that there were impulses which a person in her position could not afford to follow . |
| 15 | Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order . |
| 16 | There was some question about whether the Report should be published in its entirety , for Mr Baker and Mrs Rumbold were worried that there were sections which the Prime Minister would not like . |
| 17 | As the talk developed , it became apparent that there were things which ‘ we ’ could do to alter matters in Lesotho . |
| 18 | He happened to notice that there were crystals which appeared to be mirror images of each other . |
| 19 | One child , wide-eyed , wrote down this reaction — ‘ I never knew that there was music which made you think ’ . |
| 20 | And while it 's very reassuring that schools have n't changed too much — I do n't think we want everything to change overnight — I think you could say that schools are open to the same criticism as of British industry at the moment , that they are institutions which perhaps are changing too slowly for the demands of the modern world . |
| 21 | Freud came to see , later , that human beings are not predisposed to admit that they are organisms which die and are destructive any more than they had been prepared to admit that young children , under five years of age , were sexual . |
| 22 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 23 | To entertain the idea that they are matters which are open to discussion is in fact deeply offensive . |
| 24 | But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system . |
| 25 | Other departmental proposals were considered : They were all valid in their own right , but … too narrow , and we felt that they were ones which we would have to attempt to deal with out of capitation . |
| 26 | It is the projected activities , the group under E and F , which will concern us in this section , as we shall see that it is projection which protects the participants . |
| 27 | The Marxist feminists argue that it is capital which gains the benefit from this exploitative form of labour , since it means that they can pay these women 's husbands lower wages than would be the case if male workers had to buy these services , for instance meals in cafes , laundries for clothes-washing , and nannies for their children . |
| 28 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 29 | Indeed , the very concrete physicality of objects might lead us to expect quite the opposite conclusion , which is that it is language which organizes the deep unconscious , while objects as visible images are a relatively superficial phenomenon . |
| 30 | This idea is at odds with the Saussurean principle that it is language which is primary , and that far from preceding language , meaning is an effect produced by language . |