Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company which dares to be different . |
| 2 | During the late spring and summer of 1937 the revolution was well and truly rolled back in two of its former strongholds : Catalonia , which ceased to be autonomous within Republican Spain , and Aragon , where the CNT-dominated Council of Aragon was physically destroyed by Communist forces . |
| 3 | Details of the military arrangements , which ceased to be operational in February 1991 [ see pp. 38026-27 ] , were not released . |
| 4 | Because here your situation , the murder that has been committed , is if anything more static , and your detective 's progress towards unravelling it is liable to become a rather dull series of minor discoveries , often arising from interviews which tend to be similar in pattern . |
| 5 | that such an arts education fosters those long established cultural traditions and normative assumptions about gender which tend to be inhibitive rather than enriching of personal development and sensibility , and discouraging rather than encouraging of purposeful action in the world . |
| 6 | This may sound rather woolly , but it is in fact the instrumental arguments which tend to be woolly in failing to show the relationship between instrumental means ( more business studies graduates ) and desirable ends ( more happiness , justice , freedom ) . |
| 7 | I paint directly using simple compositions , which tend to be linear , even flat , rather than based on any sophisticated concept of leading the viewer 's eye into the picture . |
| 8 | a rejection of all foreign models of development which tend to be materialistic , dehumanising and which fail to recognise the creative developmental efforts of our own people as the requisite basis for a sustainable developmental process ; |
| 9 | However , Kaldor recognised that there is , in fact , a difference between capital gains , which tend to be unique or non-recurrent items , and income , which is recurrent . |
| 10 | There is a range of views and practices , most of which tend to be responsive . |
| 11 | This is rare in cars of this type , which tend to be fun for the driver , but a bore for anybody unlucky enough to end up in the back . |
| 12 | The sailors are timed over a course of 500m , which needs to be flat water with an optimum sailing angle of 120–130 degrees to the wind . |
| 13 | The agency which needs to be involved in following this up is the Careers Service . |
| 14 | To fill the gap from mid-July to mid-August , grow ‘ Pandora ’ , which needs to be cross-pollinated by a variety like ‘ Cambridge Favourite ’ . |
| 15 | Yet a statement of national intent concerning the learnings planned and provided for a nation 's youth is surely a document which should be available and one which needs to be open to public criticism . |
| 16 | It is well known that teachers undertake a number of tasks which appear to be additional to their contractual duties and so voluntary . |
| 17 | In [ 13 ] , the change of syntactic form , although it makes the sentence more concise , has phonological consequences which appear to be undesirable . |
| 18 | Because of the nature of the terrain — the land rocky and barren , the coastline highly indented — villages which appear to be close on the map can often be as far as 30 miles apart by winding road . |
| 19 | The distinction in question is that between two representations of person which appear to be involved in all of the uses of the infinitive : the virtual , generalized intra-verbal person of the infinitive , on the one hand , and the actual , often rank-specified extra-verbal person evoked by the context , on the other . |
| 20 | The Commissioners take considerable trouble to ensure that all relevant arguments are canvassed in the written case , and will invite observations on issues which appear to be relevant and which have not been raised in the written case . |
| 21 | ‘ The matters to which regard is to be had in particular … are any of the following which appear to be relevant — ; ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practic-able ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . ’ |
| 22 | Psychiatrists themselves are not certain exactly how they work but they replace certain amines which appear to be low in those suffering depression . |
| 23 | Among them are such features as the screes of the Lake District , which may be fossil forms due to frost shattering in the closing phases of the Pleistocene ; dry valleys in Chalk areas , which have been discussed in Chapter 7 ; some of the gravel river terraces , which , although composed of coarse gravel , have gradients less than those of present rivers , which appear to be capable of transporting no material coarser than sand and mud . |
| 24 | It differs from the Biogas specimen in the shape of the dorsal arm spines , which appear to be equal and nearly an arm segment long . |
| 25 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 26 | With the exception of the muscular changes , which appear to be irreversible , resolution is rapid , and the lungs appear almost completely normal within six months of experimental infection , though a few worms may still be present . |
| 27 | As in the case of an award for pain and suffering , the assessment of damages for loss of amenities is based upon the level of awards in previous cases which appear to be comparable or , failing such awards , upon " impression based of necessity in large measure on the combination of intuition and experience " : per Bridge LJ in Hughes v Goodall , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 18 February 1977 . |
| 28 | There is as yet little evidence that some effects which appear to be important in the laboratory can be demonstrated in more applied settings , for example the interaction between retention interval and arousal , and individual differences in the effects of arousal on memory . |
| 29 | Emphasis must be placed on certain steps and their qualities which appear to be particular to one country and dances should be limited to those which can be recognised . |
| 30 | He aims to show that concepts which appear to be independent are actually interdependent , so that one can not abandon one and leave the others intact . |