Example sentences of "which they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The African National Congress condemned the attack which they said was by shadowy forces , intent on encouraging violence in the volatile black Ciskei homeland .
2 These and many other factors are of great importance to practising physicians , but to do justice to them and to the controversies which they provoked is beyond the purpose of this book .
3 Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God .
4 Fortunately for frail elderly people , there are many who offer altruistic neighbouring acts , that is to say , they are done without assumptions of reciprocity ; the gratification which they obtain is in a sense their own private business !
5 They were overheating in the Med , which they claimed was like swimming in spit .
6 Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered .
7 Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them .
8 The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems .
9 Everyone arrives with a stack of singles which they think are worth considering for the playlist .
10 Indeed , the way in which they interact is of crucial importance .
11 For example , many of the houses which they buy are in the most remote or inconvenient situations and would otherwise have been abandoned by the local residents .
12 There is one exception to all these payments in that parish , town or community councillors are not entitled to receive payment when the duty which they perform is within the area of the parish or community .
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