Example sentences of "which is the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Office Fédéral de la Culture , which is the nearest equivalent in Switzerland to a Ministry of Culture or an Arts Council , has just presented a report to the Swiss government , calling for new legislation controlling the import and export of works of art , and encouraging the authorities to sign the 1970 UNESCO convention . |
| 2 | The appeal was set down at Bristol , which is the nearest High Court centre where family business is taken but there was no High Court judge then sitting at Bristol , or indeed anywhere else on the Western Circuit . |
| 3 | There is one ear on each side of the thorax , and each has a simple structure ; two nerves connect each ear with the thoracic ganglion ( which is the nearest mini-brain ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ she said , ‘ but would you know which is the nearest big police station in this area ? ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes when I try to ’ escape ’ from the South African situation by travelling to Lesotho , which is the nearest neighbouring country . |
| 6 | Yeah what which is the nearest one to a Conservative Club ? |
| 7 | Which is the nearest ? |
| 8 | Whether this will in practice make a great difference may be doubted , since it seems unlikely that a court will come to the conclusion that a chief constable of police has come to a decision that he could not reasonably arrive at , which is the critical test for the exercise of the powers of judicial review . |
| 9 | The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision . |
| 10 | The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision . |
| 11 | The search for an appropriate response to the problems of conflicts abuse in financial conglomerates , central to which is the increased need to protect investors , must be set within this context . |
| 12 | This , and most of what follows , is regulated by the Representation of the People Acts , the most important by far of which is the 1983 Act , ( ‘ the 1983 Act ’ hereafter ) . |
| 13 | I 'm Michael Smedley , Chairman of the Impact which is the Imperial Tobacco Pension Fund . |
| 14 | It is this increased rate of destruction of red cells which is the primary cause of the anaemia which characterises this group of disorders . |
| 15 | It is a matter of normal practice in the natural sciences for the human judgement involved in a measurement to be only indirectly related to the variable property which is the primary focus of interest . |
| 16 | It is argued that it is the present two-tier education system , as defined by policy and practice , which is the primary disabling factor and not deafness per se . |
| 17 | It has been shown that the therapeutic hypochlorhydria which is the primary action of these drugs is associated with increased gastric bacterial growth , reduction of nitrate to nitrite , and increased concentration of carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds in the gastric juice . |
| 18 | They recognise what people actually achieve at work , rather than merely testing an ability to learn , which is the primary feature of a written or oral examination . |
| 19 | There are one or two mild metaphors and parallelisms , but these tend to serve the purpose of irony ( see 8.4–5 ) , which is the overarching figure of speech in this passage . |
| 20 | and I second agenda and erm we ask for your attention to para three point four er which is the financial part of this budget really and it says that some contingencies in nursery schools should be increased , erm that it is actually allowed for in the later budget erm the tax payer budget will be . |
| 21 | Erm one of the things that er would be nice to end up with is a price on the books which is the higher price . |
| 22 | Working within this international world it is , of course , a great help if one speaks several languages , but my own experience has been that it is not the ability to speak another language , rare enough this essential tool of international business is amongst British people , but the experience of having lived and worked with people in another country which is the decisive factor . |
| 23 | He could then give some thought to the inequities of the council tax , so called , which is the nasty twin brother of the poll tax and which will leave debris — caused by the Prime Minister and the Conservative party — all over the country . |
| 24 | Built among the woods are some attractive private houses and a 19C hospital beneath which is the elegant mass of the Lobkovic Palace , now the German Embassy . |
| 25 | If we wish to add a new value , then we search for that node which is the lowest level of the index set in which it belongs . |
| 26 | resistance to temptation , which is the braking mechanism against misbehaviour , even when unobserved ; |
| 27 | Emergency portosystemic shunting is still recommended by some centres as the most effective therapy for bleeding while others prefer staple gun transection of the oesophagus which is the safer technique for the less experienced surgeon . |
| 28 | For the discourse analyst , it provides another way of accounting for sequences of utterances , though one apparently limited to discourse which is the mutual construction of more than one person . |
| 29 | By then the satraps in Asia Minor ( which is the best-attested cluster of satrapies ) allow the poleis to grant citizenship and tax exemption on their own initiative , provided the Great King gets his tribute ( Mausolus M 5 , 8 , 13 , with formulae anticipating hellenistic grants ) . |
| 30 | One question , therefore , is whether the age should be reduced to 16 , which is the general age of consent for sexual activity . |