Example sentences of "[noun] which [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On my tour I 'm going to sing My Funny Valentine and Some Enchanted Evening — songs which I would never have tackled before . |
| 2 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
| 3 | For example my dad 's brother Omega which you could n't find in Switzerland |
| 4 | By criticizing the Conservative Party mid-term the right-wing press can build up a certain degree of credibility with its readers which it can then use to maximum effect by suspending criticism of the Conservative Party and increasing its attacks on Labour as the election approaches . |
| 5 | When she woke she found her hand covered with blood which she could not wash off until she went to church to confess to the priest . |
| 6 | What persuaded him were two bits of Temple 's mind which he could not mistake . |
| 7 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 8 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |
| 9 | One reason for this is that many people have a fear which they can not conceal of anything or anybody who reminds them of death ; knowing that contact with a grieving widow will exacerbate these fears they tend , after expressing their sympathy by word or letter , and sending flowers to the funeral , to withdraw to a safe distance ‘ to give her time to get over it ’ just when she needs them most . |
| 10 | We have formulated an ideal piece of research which we could never hope to carry out with our own ( almost certainly ) limited money , time and personnel . |
| 11 | Your whole attention must be directed to balancing the need to produce the best result which you could personally produce , and the one which gives the subordinate a chance to learn through practical experience . |
| 12 | The second is that the pain or distress which we could probably relieve by crying , is so powerful , so overwhelming , that it becomes too deep for tears . |
| 13 | Otherwise , your hospital physiotherapist may be willing to see the specialist with you , for guidance which she can then put into practice herself . |
| 14 | They sat astonished as Sir Claus Moser , head of the National Commission on Education , told them : ‘ The majority of our children are in schools which you would n't want to be associated with . |
| 15 | The court can not attach a meaning to words which they can not bear , but if the words are capable of bearing more than one meaning why should not Parliament 's true intention be enforced rather than thwarted ? |
| 16 | ‘ And yet to have been there and heard none of the holy words which we should naturally have listened for from those lips at such a time — how distressing ! ’ |
| 17 | She is talking about an enemy which you can not see or hear or smell . ’ |
| 18 | Because the European Commission is making a number of funds available to develop those links , the overture fund , the knowhow fund funded by the Foreign Office , the fund , the enterprise fund , the fur fund , the tempest fund , all these are in the reportback which I 'll gratefully give to the press and also the opposition if they 'll bother to read it . |
| 19 | That will give us many important opportunities which we must not let drop . |
| 20 | Early English pop was riddled with homosexuality and that sensibility which we would now call camp — partly this was due to homosexual familiarity with those areas of human activity which were now being exploited , and partly to the early music industry 's seedy beginnings on the fringes of established showbusiness . |
| 21 | In some ways they are even better than our own , for a squid can distinguish polarised light which we can not do and their retinas have a finer structure which means , almost certainly , that they can distinguish finer detail than we can . |
| 22 | He felt a vague disappointment which he could n't put into words . |
| 23 | Marks & Spencer and Waitrose both have champagnes which you could usefully treat in the same way if you have to cool dark hole to bung them in . |
| 24 | Moreover , you know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I can not bear [ the flute ] . |
| 25 | Users implement keyword searches in order to select the data which they can then assemble on the desktop screen and edit as necessary using the package 's hypergraphics and hypertext tools . |
| 26 | It got a roar of appreciation which I can still hear , and afterwards Stephen Sondheim came over to ask me if I 'd had the dress made to go with the remark . |
| 27 | Any loss which he could reasonably have avoided will be deducted from his damages . |
| 28 | These data were supplemented by the radar ‘ looking ’ sideways at the surface , a rather subtle technique which I shall not describe . |
| 29 | I looked over towards the Pasanggrahan Hotel , and the balcony from which we had longingly watched so many prahus which we could not sail aboard . |
| 30 | If at the end of the eight week period since completion , debts remained unpaid , the vendor should have the right to buy back [ at an agreed discount ] the debts which it may then seek to enforce ( as vigorously as it wishes ) in order to seek payment . |