Example sentences of "[det] which [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has certainly demonstrated that he is a ‘ draw ’ : there must already be some 250 Conservative MPs in his debt for turning out an audience at least double that which they would otherwise have been able to collect . |
| 2 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 3 | In so doing , tragedy teaches us to contemplate with equanimity , indeed with serene detachment , that which we can not change and should therefore speedily abandon . |
| 4 | It could be that we are fatally drawn to the mysterious : the water is that which we can not fathom , the unfathomable . |
| 5 | Under other constitutional systems , one can detect a vague principle that a parliament can not do indirectly that which it can not do directly , but there is little authority for such a doctrine here . |
| 6 | In essence the business of this unit is to provide what it sensibly can and to purchase that which it can not provide . |
| 7 | For example an official may refuse to issue a necessary certificate except upon payment of a fee which exceeds that which he may lawfully exact or an authority may threaten seizure of goods or disconnection of vital supplies if an unlawful demand is not met . |
| 8 | He did he said that which he should n't have done . |
| 9 | ( Gregory 's slogan was : ‘ That which he could not assume he could not heal . ’ ) |
| 10 | I think it was David Bellamy who once said : ‘ Never make a frog do that which you would n't do yourself . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not an idiot and clearly neither are you , so there is n't much to be gained by concealing from you that which you can easily find out , is there , Mr Milton ? ’ |
| 12 | We say nothing could be further from the truth and indeed to get any if you read just one newspaper this morning we will say from that which you will actually see in the witness box . |
| 13 | Under this interpretation , actions which originate from ‘ inside ’ the self are those which are seen as in accordance with conscious desires or intentions , and those which originate from ‘ outside ’ the self are those which one would not do if one were not coerced . |
| 14 | Your will is only for those which you ca n't get rid of because you ca n't get rid of everything . |
| 15 | The mayor asks them to tell him what has been written because there are several which he can not read . |