Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But despite his faults — which I confess were many — he was adept at killing . |
| 2 | Which I know is all a lot of money and let me just tell you here , what we have spent this year on advertising . |
| 3 | Erm within the six to ten mile band there are just two er fairly small er areas er which I believe are both less than ten acres in extent . |
| 4 | which I think is that way |
| 5 | and proposals and I 'd like to start with a vote just to find out what kind of hundred this is , do you have a driving licence ? , button one for yes and button two for no seventy two of this hundred have a driving licence which I think is some way above the National average , let me ask you do you have the use of a car or other vehicle whenever you want it ? , button one for yes and button two for no and of seventy two er licence holders , sixty three have the use of a car which again I think is some way over the National average , now what cars do you have ? , now let see what people are driving here there |
| 6 | Ken commented earlier that er er prior to the Financial Services Act coming into force which I think was some time in nineteen eighty-eight , the er D T I was responsible and there come back to the D T I if these sort of things had applied and er compensation effectively by the D T I for mal-administration or whatever so that er say we do n't pretend to be pension experts , so any retrospection that I would suggest might well be appropriate as at the date of the Financial Services Act becoming into force . |
| 7 | Which I suppose is some sort of ability |
| 8 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 9 | The hypocrite offers the gull a surface falseness which he penetrates to discover ‘ a truth ’ , but which we know is another falseness . |
| 10 | In such a circumstance a quantity rule has to be adopted in order to determine what actual output will be , and the one which we adopted was that actual output would equal the level of demand , thus obliging firms to produce and sell more than they initially considered optimal at the price set . |
| 11 | The major premise from which we start is that prenominal attribution and postnominal attribution involve , respectively , qualification and assignment . |
| 12 | Nevertheless the evidence which we have is enough to show that the situation in Merovingian Francia may not have been so very different from Visigothic Spain , where kings are well known to have been closely involved in the major ecclesiastical councils of the kingdom . |
| 13 | As Derek Hatton , Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council put it , ‘ We 'd want to make sure that … those who are employed to manage and carry out the policies which we decide are those who are in general sympathy with those policies ’ ( Gyford , 1985b , p. 58 ) . |
| 14 | And when Ross had proceeded to tell all the interested spectators — of which there had been many — that he and Laura were on their second honeymoon … she 'd almost exploded with loathing of the man who was now so clearly dominating her life . |
| 15 | Thus the Preface of the Catalogus Plantarum emphasised correct identification as a prime factor for success both in the nursery and the garden , and the text of the work presented a practical guide , suggesting the best uses for the new trees and shrubs with which there had been little experience . |
| 16 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |
| 17 | Negotiations between Israel and Syria , about which there had been some optimism during the sixth and the first part of the seventh round , were largely unproductive . |
| 18 | Novels , for instance , have less in common with lyric poetry than with other forms of extended narrative , such as historiography , biography , autobiography — a genre of which there have been some interesting studies lately — or even some kinds of essay . |
| 19 | The extent to which there has been such a departure is well shown by the fact that , when the World Council of Churches was originally formed in 1948 , the basis of that Council ( to which churches which wanted to join must subscribe ) read : ‘ The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour . ’ |
| 20 | For younger mothers it usually comes as a surprise , an unintended consequence of a past or current sexual relationship , and an event for which there has been little planning or preparation . |
| 21 | Which expands on the Tashi character from The Color Purple in her tale of female circumcision , of which there has been much coverage . |
| 22 | The chapter begins , then , by focusing on a phenomenon about which there has been much recent discussion — deindustrialization . |
| 23 | The problem of Britain 's relatively slow rate of growth in the post-war period , compared with other industrial countries and in particular its failure to diversify and innovate competitively , is a very deep rooted one , about which there has been much controversy . |
| 24 | This is a subject over which there has been much controversy . |
| 25 | In Chapter 1 we argued that conscious awareness , the images and representations that people use to communicate with each other and the various forms of deliberate planning and foresight which they use are all partly a result of the myriad social relationships in which they are caught up , and partly a product of deep-rooted instincts and emotions . |
| 26 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 27 | The context in which they arose was that of the capitalist world economy and imperialism ; hence there has also been , in many of these movements a substantial socialist influence , and in some countries , notably in China , nationalist movements have culminated in a social revolution . |
| 28 | Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter . |
| 29 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 30 | The air which he breathed was that of the famous treatise on the resting places of the old English saints , and of the days when , in Eadmer 's words , ‘ it was the custom of the English to prefer the patronage of the saints to every worldly aid ’ . |