Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 2 | On the other hand , there is a general warm acceptance of the monarchy , which has been revealed time and time again by public opinion polls ( e.g. National Opinion Poll , 1986 ; Gallup , 1976 ; see surveys of polls in Harris , 1966 ; Norton , 1984 ; Ziegler , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 4 | Another slightly different angle on these issues is to consider the distinction between instrumentality and expressiveness which has been made use of by sociologists , and is usefully applied to a discussion of kin relations by Morgan ( 1975 , pp. 78–85 ) . |
| 5 | The total area of the site which has been developed runs to about 60,000 sq ft . |
| 6 | Each of these animals , one of which has been named Clydagnathus , shows a laterally flattened body , caudal fin and ‘ V-shaped ’ muscle blocks , together with the faint outline of a notochord and large paired eyes . |
| 7 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |
| 8 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |
| 9 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |
| 10 | While continuing to believe in the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine at communion , Luther rejected transubstantiation for a position which has been labelled consubstantiation . |
| 11 | He would have done better to hoard a fast , independent ship with good signalling equipment , for on the Queen Elizabeth , which had been given tasks of her own , he became a virtual prisoner , unable to respond to events or give directions . |
| 12 | Subsequently , they were much less likely to avoid the saccharin solution than rats which had been given water instead of vinegar ( Revusky , 1971 ) . |
| 13 | He flew to Holyhead in a helicopter from the Queen 's flight and then on to Anglesey for a series of visits which had been arranged months in advance . |
| 14 | Three Spanish trawlers which had been observed fishing in Namibian waters at the end of March were boarded by South African coastguards and returned to Windhoek . |
| 15 | The fighting , eventually suppressed with the aid of Interior Ministry troops ( OMON ) , appeared to be between supporters and opponents of the new coalition government which President Rakhmon Nabiyev had been compelled to accept in May ( and which had been refused recognition by Kurgan-Tyube 's neighbouring Kulyab oblast and by Khodjent oblast in the north — see also p. 38916 ) . |
| 16 | The ash-fall which buried Pompeii and the mudflow which covered Herculaneum , however , are first-class examples of two major kinds of volcanic phenomena , which have been repeated scores of times on different volcanoes in different parts of the world and we will be following them up more closely when we come to a detailed consideration of the mechanisms of eruptions . |
| 17 | The levees of the former rivers through the Fens are now marked by raised banks , or roddons , which have been favoured settlement sites due to their comparative dryness . |
| 18 | Environmentalists have reported the government to the European Commission over nine road schemes which have been given approval without an environmental assessment . |
| 19 | Subject headings lists are lists of index terms , normally arranged in alphabetical order , which have been given authority for use in an index , catalogue or database for describing subjects . |
| 20 | As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are : |
| 21 | Two separate functions of appeals have been identified , which have been labelled review and supervision ( Blom-Cooper and Drewry , 1972 ; Drewry , 1973 ) . |
| 22 | In short , empty space is in fact crowded with interlocking magnetic and electric fields , and sub-atomic particles which have been labelled Neutrinos . |
| 23 | The cases which have been considered fall into several categories , but the most important distinction is between simple and complex cases . |
| 24 | Genetic engineering has reached a point of such sophistication that there are clear benefits to be gained by releasing from the laboratory living organisms upon which have been conferred characteristics they could never have acquired through the normal processes of evolution or selective breeding . |
| 25 | Although these floods , which have been termed streamfloods by Davis , are rare and of short duration , the amount of work of which they are capable is enormous . |
| 26 | What has been designated Industry Year has got off to a predictably silly start . |
| 27 | He announced to cheers that he had written to Presidents Gorbachev and Bush seeking support for what has been called Prague 's polite revolution . |
| 28 | He announced to cheers that he had written to Presidents Gorbachev and Bush seeking support for what has been called Prague 's polite revolution . |
| 29 | The idea of what has been called data privacy , the claim of the individual to control information about himself , is not confined to so-called sensitive data or information of a particularly recherché kind — it can apply to any piece of data about an identifiable individual , who is the only one who can say whether or not , in the particular context , he or she regards the data as sensitive . |
| 30 | It is only at the end of the term of copyright that what has been protected passes into the public domain . |