Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [art] [indef pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decisions were being taken about his future which no one could explain to him . |
| 2 | All in all , it was better to have a tolerable tenement than the ideal which no one could afford . |
| 3 | The rows of young men perched atop the slatted sides sang snatches of song which no one could hear above the noise of the engine . |
| 4 | I quote from what Sir Allen Sheppard of Grand Met said yesterday : ’ One thing which no one could predict a year ago was exactly how long the recession would last This recession has not been an exclusively British phenomenon — as some people would have us believe . |
| 5 | It need not be individual life , since in Bilbo 's second version others can take it up and follow it in their turn ; however in Frodo 's and Bilbo 's first version the image of the traveller pursuing the Road looks very like a symbol of the individual pursuing his moment of consciousness down the unknown road which is everyone 's future life , to an end which no one can predict . |
| 6 | Only later did Oliver Michaels come back with the sobering news that the hotel was strangely full of policemen , that there was no breakfast to be had save for coffee and muffins , without a trek to the Albion Hotel , and moreover there was thought to be something odd about Sir Thomas 's death which no one would specify . |
| 7 | My mother was very kind — she was very fond of music , of Wagner in particular — but I do n't think our parents found it very easy to understand my brother and myself , especially as we had our own private language which no one could work out . |