Example sentences of "thing which [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ It is possible to bypass the censor which normally filters the impulses deriving from our subconscious , and let out things which ought to be kept in . |
| 3 | It is only when one supposes that , as well as such ideas , there is either ‘ extension in abstract ’ or extended , external , material things which might have parts we can not perceive , that one might come to believe in the infinite divisibility of finite extension . |
| 4 | Kelly went on , ‘ I 've discovered some things which might interest you . ’ |
| 5 | First , there are things which might or would have happened as consequences of some other action which he might have done instead . |
| 6 | I would like to say one or two things which might help in understanding . |
| 7 | Most of all we want to shelve the things which might cause us the slightest discomfort . |
| 8 | A state of knowledge is a set of facts of this form , and so the search can be described adequately in a language containing just the names of things which might be found , all possible coordinates , and the relation here-found . |
| 9 | Be ready to discuss things which might puzzle the child . |
| 10 | The construction of elaborate intellectual er defences which stop people having to think about things which might cause them anxiety , by elaborate rationalization . |
| 11 | ( Section 1(3) concerns things which might encourage offensive , immoral or anti-social behaviour or new varieties of animals or plants . ) |
| 12 | was er whether the please ensure erm looking at carriageway major repairs you see area two tended to ninety three thousand pounds and that covers a lot of things which might include . |
| 13 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 14 | Lord Denning explained that ‘ There are some things which may be required to be disclosed in the public interest , in which event no confidence can be prayed in aid to keep them secret . ’ |
| 15 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 16 | Everything we say or write is connected both with things which have been said or written in the past , and with things which may be said or written in response to it in the future . |
| 17 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 18 | But the animal world contains many things which may strike us as being strange or even inexplicable . |
| 19 | Where he is the occupier of premises in or on which the chattels ( not attached to the premises ) are found and , before the finding ‘ he has manifested an intention to exercise control over the [ premises ] and the things which may be upon it or in it ’ . |
| 20 | The use of circling or underlining parts of their work , arrows to show how pieces of work connect , brainstorming , asterisks to show things which may be worth returning to , parts of diagrams abandoned as a result becomes clear , and other messy ways of working may need to be encouraged if people are used to hiding their rough work or throwing it away . |
| 21 | We can not expect to arrive at consensus easily — there are a lot of things which may not seem to fit at all — but we can at least want to find out what is in common before worrying about what appears to contradict . |
| 22 | Sociologists wanted to have their results accepted as scientifically accurate , have worked in the same way , but not always successfully , when dealing with people , is not always to easy to think of all the things which may affect the result . |
| 23 | No , they wo n't be moving away faster than light is travelling because the theory of relativity says that nothing can move faster than light , but there are certainly things which may be happening now which we shall not learn about for thousands of millions of years because they are so far away . |
| 24 | Hemp bags with holes in them , paper , broken bits of wood and , I expect , old implements and things which would now be quite valuable . |
| 25 | They sat along one wall by unspoken consent , like a school dance : a grey-haired man in a grey anorak with a once-brutal face now cowed by misery into a sort of gentleness ; an Asian couple , he in a leather jacket , resigned , she pretty and solicitous ; another grey-haired man who looked as though defeat was what he was born for ; a bearded man with a red scarf , lips twitching as he rehearsed things to say , things which would not help . |
| 26 | Secondly there are things which would have occurred , if he had not acted thus , but not as consequences of some alternative action of his . |
| 27 | Thus nursing and postal delivery both seem things which would lose all , or almost all , their value in isolation . |
| 28 | We will have also to change all those things which would not have happened if the election had been delayed , e.g. Mrs Thatcher 's age at election time . |
| 29 | He says that the device can reveal many things which would probably remain undiscovered because they 're under concrete . |
| 30 | Mere observation and reporting is inadequate , given the limited scope of things which can be truly observed ( Holy 1984 : 25 ) . |