Example sentences of "which [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you would like some help to decide which account is right for you , talk to one of our Personal Bankers . |
| 2 | You know him , so you know which account is likely to be the most accurate . |
| 3 | Tigger tries the patience of his fellows not by wickedness but by excessive high-spirits ; Rabbit attempts to teach Tigger a lesson in a rather unkind way ( in Chapter VII , ‘ In which Tigger is unbounced ’ , The house at Pooh Corner ) . |
| 4 | Since that study , increasing use has been made of the task-centred approach , which targets seven problem areas in which change is possible : |
| 5 | The little orange trees which grow are pretty but it will be many years before they are big enough to produce oranges . |
| 6 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 7 | that any delay which occurred was reasonable and , as the judge found , justifiable and was in part the inevitable consequence of following the Home Office Guidelines ( 1985 ed. ) referred to above ; |
| 8 | One of the subjects on which Headline is careful to listen to the trade is book jackets . |
| 9 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 10 | Ecstasy , which has been illegal since 1977 , is used by many on the rave scene . |
| 11 | It must be the influence of Jekyll and Hyde , which has been strong since John Barrymore grew long teeth and took to scuttling about dark expressionist streets , bashing and killing . |
| 12 | This unprincipled position was sharply attacked by the Irish News , the nationalist newspaper which has been standard reading for the Catholic community in the North for the best part of a century . |
| 13 | As noted , eurobond firms are seeking to reform issuance procedures in a bid to reduce the current pressures on profitability , one underlying cause of which has been excess capacity . |
| 14 | The first particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the reliance on possible first use of nuclear weapons as a means of countering presumed superior Soviet conventional power — a reliance which McNamara sought for a while to abandon when Secretary of Defense in the early 1960s , and which he openly challenged in a famous recent article ( Bundy et al . , |
| 15 | The second particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the targeting of cities and other locations not of a strictly military character . |
| 16 | This new exhibition area is the first stage of the Nuovi Uffizi complex , which has been subject to delays even though the funds have long been available . |
| 17 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
| 18 | This is an emotive case , which has been subject to a full investigation by the special investigation branch of the Royal Military Police , and disciplinary action has been taken against the soldier in relation to the allegations . |
| 19 | Sainsbury 's Cabernet Sauvignon Selection , vin de Pays d'Oc , £4.15 is a deep , ripe , fruity wine , a proportion of which has been oak-aged . |
| 20 | The dispute , which has been simmering for years , came to the boil in April when Michael Harcourt , the province 's premier , revealed a scheme that would protect 33% of the region , permit limited logging in 17% , and open the rest to extensive ( although , at least in theory , well-managed ) timber harvesting . |
| 21 | He has the HLA B8 DR3 haplotype and an 18 year history of ulcerative colitis which has been quiescent for more than 12 months . |
| 22 | The weather has been very pleasant on the whole — sometimes a little too hot for comfort , but there has been the occasional rain-storm which has been refreshing . |
| 23 | The light over No. 6 which has been burning night and day for 2 months , now operates as it should — from dusk to dawn . |
| 24 | I 'm wearing a black figure-hugging knee-length frock , which has been hand-embroidered all over with dangling jet beads ; sharp , dangling jet beads that make standing up imperative . |
| 25 | Part of the blame for that has to be accepted by the industry , which has been guilty of complacency . |
| 26 | It is not only Catholic Christendom which has been guilty of seeking to domesticate the Holy Spirit in this way . |
| 27 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 28 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 29 | The point is that for Callinicos , Nietzschean thought is an instance of Romantic anti-capitalism : that form of refusal of the implications of capitalist modernity which has been present virtually since the birth of that condition , described by Michael Lowy as ‘ opposition to capitalism in the name of pre-capitalist values ’ ( cited p. 67 ) . |
| 30 | ITALIAN-owned RCS Video has bought a majority stake in London-based Majestic Films International , which has been involved in the financing and marketing of a series of successful films including Dances with Wolves and Henry V. Guy East , who founded the company in 1988 , will retain a significant shareholding and takes over as chief executive . |