Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ? |
| 2 | With the exception of some early state papers in private collections and most notably , the very extensive India Office records , which effectively ceased to be produced in 1948 , the Special Collections of the British Library are for the most part private in their origin and unpredictable in the manner and timing of their acquisition . |
| 3 | In any case , it was concerned only with slum housing which eventually had to be cleared . |
| 4 | When they rescued him he was suffering from frostbite and had a broken tail which eventually had to be amputated . |
| 5 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 6 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 7 | This treatment is highly effective but smacks a little of a rather punitive approach to the patient now that long-acting penicillins are available which only need to be given once or twice a week . |
| 8 | Why not do it and leave it ready the day before , then all that is needed is one minute to set the garter carriage in operation and you will come home to a sleeve which only has to be cast off . |
| 9 | From this you might learn about Richardson 's method of writing , as well as about differences between writing which is really private compared to writing which only pretends to be private . |
| 10 | The government envisaged the mapping as being a simple , progressive operation which only required to be undertaken once , and the sooner the better . |
| 11 | This is as true of nineteenth-century Whitley Bay ( which literally ceased to be farmland ) as it is of almost all of Longbenton , developed as a Newcastle over spill after 1945 . |
| 12 | The former , which apparently has to be seen in the context of the political climate of the 1940s , is an analysis of Stalinism and Stalinist parties as ‘ tools of the Kremlin ’ , the issue of which led James to break with current Trotskyist thinking . |
| 13 | There are a number of unwritten rules or axioms which perhaps need to be questioned . |
| 14 | The combative ethic of politics is inappropriately placed at the centre of the governance of education , which desperately needs to be guided by the values of partnership . |
| 15 | In each case there is a copper core with a plating of silver which superficially appears to be identical on the two coins . |
| 16 | Then the gong sounded for tea , which somehow had to be endured , the shrimps shelled , the bread buttered , the milk and tea poured into the cups , Victoria 's cake to be cut into fingers so that she could eat it all up . |
| 17 | There is therefore a need to question this assumption that aggression is a given element which somehow has to be accounted for . |
| 18 | The newsletter commented : ‘ Clearly , a pretty strict observance of the new March production limits will be required to dissipate the impact of the February overhang and make any kind of a positive impression on a market which already seems to be losing the bullish tone which was in evidence after the mid-February OPEC accord . ’ |
| 19 | South facing rooms which already appear to be warmer due to the extra light can more easily accommodate cooler shades such as pale blue . |
| 20 | In calling on Congress for this aid the President outlined the broad policy , which soon came to be known as the Truman Doctrine . |
| 21 | This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority . |
| 22 | I believe we are already lost ’ , an analysis which the Empress kept to herself , but which soon proved to be all too correct , for in the early days of August the French armies suffered three defeats at the battles of Spicheren , Wissembourg and Froeschwiller . |
| 23 | The bulk of sales of dailies and periodicals here is not at the news stands , but via annual subscriptions which normally have to be renewed by 1 October . |
| 24 | During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects . |
| 25 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 26 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
| 27 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 28 | The user prepares a document using Berthold fonts and sends it to a bureau for output on an imagesetter which just happens to be running Hell-Xenotron 's Bridgit . |
| 29 | A random development , culturally reinforced , which just happens to be love rather than something else ? |
| 30 | The only thing they have in common is that they are all outgoing , extrovert , self-confident , irrepressible and generally sparky personalities — which just happens to be a pretty good recipe for attractiveness in a woman , as well as being the ideal make-up for sales . ’ |