Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] which it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must not use it selfishly without regard to the social purposes which it should serve . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It could have resisted payment , and the revenue had no means other than the taking of legal proceedings which it might have used to enforce payment . |
| 5 | Delyn was going to spend £1.25m in 1993–94 , but finds it has more than £2.5m unspent capital which it can carry over from last year 's budget . |
| 6 | Officials now fear that the British company ICI , may develop a new dental plastic which it can sell successfully everywhere — except Britain . |
| 7 | Anticipatory and parenthetical structures increase difficulty because they require the reader 's mind to store up syntactic information which it will use later on ( see 7.5.3–4 ) . |
| 8 | Apart from the huge expense of acceding to the health workers ' demands , defeat for the Government would have brought in its train a series of demands from other workers which it would have found hard to resist . … |
| 9 | It can be measured by the number of other items which it can displace . |
| 10 | Irrespective of whether an agreement or arrangement has been notified to the Commission or a complaint made , it is open to the Commission to launch its own investigation in relation to any agreement , practice or other activity which it may suspect infringes the competition rules . |
| 11 | Wherever you may locate your own particular response , I want in this book to discuss what is involved in giving RE the positive and creative image which it should have by virtue of the importance of its subject-matter , the challenging controversy it can generate , and the depth of feeling to which it can appeal . |
| 12 | The BBC says it wants to encourage sponsored events which it can cover . |