Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] which [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I assume you 're using the word ‘ nice ’ in the true sense of ‘ neat ’ , as in the neatly ruthless deals I 'm sure he 's notorious for clinching , or the neat asset-stripping technique which I dare say he 's renowned for ? ’ |
| 2 | The Ibrox side are resigned to being without the Englishman for the European Cup showdown with Marseille on 7 April because of the automatic one-match ban which he must serve after his sending off against Brugge on Wednesday night . |
| 3 | In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take . |
| 4 | Now , what I am about to teach you is an extension of your eidetic capability which you will find of great use in your intended career . |
| 5 | The intrinsic nature of a thing is the whole detailed character which it would share with anything else exactly like it , so far as that character is entirely a matter of what the thing is like , so to speak , within its own boundaries , while its intrinsic properties are the various discriminable elements of its intrinsic nature . |
| 6 | Timber , again , has a high work of fracture — about 10 4 J/m 2 — but this is produced by a totally different mechanism which we shall talk about in Chapter 6 . |
| 7 | Make sure the abbreviation used is not a proper word which you might use elsewhere in the document . |
| 8 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 9 | Studies of cognition which seek to elucidate the nature or that cultural order which we might impose upon or recognize in the world may well be concerned with the classification of objects , but they generally fail to acknowledge , let alone address , the difference between artefacts such as cutlery which already incorporate categorization in their manufac-turer , and objects such as trees which do not ( e.g. Rosch 1978 : 30–5 ) . |
| 10 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 11 | It is a made to a British standard which you can tell when you buy anything like that by the kite mark on the side . |
| 12 | the shared work load allowed the father more free time which he must learn to use ; |
| 13 | Our proposals were that SERPS should be abolished and that the second pension should come from a variety of new options in the private sector which we would make available . |
| 14 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 15 | Others may prefer to continue the addictive process rather than accept the need for personal change which they may perceive to be more painful than continuing the addiction . |
| 16 | You will , I am quite sure , agree with me totally when I say , our beautiful , delectable , Annabelle is irreplaceable , and we shall miss her dreadfully , when she departs across the skies to the beautiful tropical paradise which she will enhance immeasurably … |
| 17 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 18 | The Plowden Report on Control of Public Expenditure contained , amongst other nuggets of wisdom , the following sentence which I should like to take as my starting-point : ‘ The social changes of the last fifteen years have altered the incidence of hardship , so that there now may well be excessive social services for some purposes and inadequate ones for others . ’ |
| 19 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 20 | Play him or her you can explain the results which you want from the session and the engineer can advise you on any extra equipment which you may need to hire . |
| 21 | However speculative my development of the theory of memes may be , there is one serious point which I would like to emphasize once again . |
| 22 | Ultimately the attractiveness of MINIS-type systems to public sector managers lies in the comprehensive picture which they can provide of organizational activities , and also in the potential which they hold for decentralization within departments . |
| 23 | So while the male bi-coloured damselfish attracts his mates by chirping — the sound increasing to a crescendo if a female happens to pass by — there is a species of minnow which purrs , the cod grunts and the love song of the male haddock resembles the sound of a motorbike , a quite unmelodious call which it can sustain for periods of up to twenty minutes . |
| 24 | Causing grievous bodily harm to someone now you might say that 's a very serious offence which you should expect to be prosecuted . |
| 25 | The remaining appendices provide additional information which you might find useful . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend offers me an enticing invitation which I shall consider taking up . |
| 27 | ‘ As a matter of fact , my dear , I have one tiny idea which I will ask Durance about in a while , when I can choose the best moment . |
| 28 | For an ideal transformer we need to introduce a separate notation which we shall choose in the form shown in Fig. 4.10 . |
| 29 | The fact that this rarely happens ( or , where it does , we are not told ) , reveals the moral repugnance which we would feel at such coercive action . |
| 30 | Or maybe you have seen a crystal ball containing a tiny house which you can shake to produce a brilliant snowstorm ? |