Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other paintings which failed to sell were Max Liebermann 's ‘ Allee im Tiergarten ’ ( Avenue in the Tiergarten ) and Ernst Wilhelm Nay 's ‘ Dark Rhythms on Ochre ’ . |
| 2 | At any point while the word is being spoken , the set of detectors which remain activated is known as the cohort . |
| 3 | The special circumstances of territorial displacement and the withdrawal of adult supervision , which appear to have been more pronounced in Britain than in other parts of western Europe where the family is stronger as a recreational unit , have made the problem worse here than elsewhere ; this has led to the formation of the ‘ ends ’ which in turn has tended to attract a small fascist and psychotic fringe . |
| 4 | Perambulations which appear to have been made pursuant to these instructions are extant for the counties of Buckingham , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Oxford , Shropshire , Yorkshire and Wiltshire . |
| 5 | SCIENTISTS have launched an investigation into the fate of partridges which appear to have been harmed by the increasing amount of land being set aside by farmers and allowed to lie fallow . |
| 6 | His first publication , a humorous but unsophisticated story entitled ‘ How I built myself a house ’ , published in Chambers 's Journal in March 1865 , was originally written for the amusement of colleagues during afternoons which appear to have been all too idle . |
| 7 | It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible . |
| 8 | This consisted of a carefully buried wooden box containing a collection of bronzes which appear to have been associated with a religious site . |
| 9 | Such diverse construction methods are not confined to particular types of building but rather reflect questions of cost and regional traditions which appear to have been relatively pronounced in Roman Britain . |
| 10 | Death was the result of sepsis , bowel infarction , and renal failure none of which appear to have been readily preventable in retrospect . |
| 11 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 12 | Clearly there is more to memory than the reproduction of numbers or lists and another distinction which has arisen is between episodic and semantic memory . |
| 13 | The question which has arisen is whether in these circumstances the beneficial joint tenancy was severed before Mrs. Dennis ' death . |
| 14 | While there may be a reluctance on the part of the courts to rule on the validity of Acts of Parliament , a related issue which has arisen is whether they may adjudicate upon the question whether something purporting to be an Act of Parliament actually is such . |
| 15 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 16 | The picture which has emerged is one of people of the inner city especially the women — living under curfew . |
| 17 | This puts in perspective the Department of Economic Development 's approach to community economic development , which has to date been one of employing outside consultants without sufficient consideration for the need of local input . |
| 18 | The one area of Conservative history which has flourished is political biography , but the danger of this is a tendency to reduce the history of the Conservative Party to a history of personalities and to avoid any analysis of Conservatism in terms of structures , interests and ideas . |
| 19 | The most interesting cases , however , are the last : those in which a trust imposed on a bequest which has failed is held to survive . |
| 20 | Birmingham has a fascinating heritage which has left is with a wealth of attractions for the visitor . |
| 21 | All we are left with are a few opening chapters ( published as Coots in the North , edited by Hugh Brogan ) , and notes towards an encounter between two sets of pirates , the Death and Glories and the Amazons , which promised to have been a battle royal . |
| 22 | A second strand which contributed to change was the media . |
| 23 | As mentioned at the start of this section , the common law is not the only legal system in which rights to land are lost by abandonment : |
| 24 | He puzzled over the dates on the backs of photographs , most of which seemed to have been taken in May , and he tried to get from his aunts the precise age gap between his parents and between his mother and Uncle Stanley . |
| 25 | He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff . |
| 26 | There were several rooms , all in good condition , which seemed to have been rented out though I was aware that they remained my responsibility . |
| 27 | But no boy could fail to notice the hollows of his cheeks , which seemed to have been scooped out in deep , dark channels , or his eyes , which were ringed round with black , and bleary , and haunted . |
| 28 | He had been careful not to tear her dress , but everything else seemed to be ruined irrevocably , not the least the inward psyche of Sally-Anne herself , which seemed to have been raped more than her body , if that were possible . |
| 29 | Ultimately , 10 ( 6% ) patients from within the whole group had further surgery the nature of which seemed to have been influenced by the results of the test . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) A document which bears to have been executed by the Funding Council in accordance with sub-paragraph ( 2 ) above shall , in relation to such execution , be a probative document if the subscription of the document bears to have been attested by at least one witness . |