Example sentences of "which [verb] [pron] can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 2 | We have a standard for children which assumes they can either send very strongly amplifies the distress , and therefore , we are not going to taken them terribly seriously , or at least they can actual reach much higher intensities before we do take them seriously , whereas for adults we have a different standard which , which assumes that even slight expressions of distress in adult could be serious . |
| 3 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 4 | I 'm caught in the cross-fire between on one side the US which wants to export computers , the motor and textile industries which complain they can not modernise and thus compete without a change in the law , and on the other side the Brazilian computer industry which argues we are leading them into bankruptcy . |
| 5 | Whatever our conscious reasons ( ’ No , I want to remember him/her the way he/she was ' or ‘ Not in front of the children ’ ) , a dead body is not considered to be spectacle for display in Britain , and the rationale which dictates it can sometimes disguise feelings of embarrassment that such a thing could occur in our death-defying , well-regulated households . |
| 6 | The accomplice becomes an enemy , and in due course a victim , at which point he can only salute the irony of his being executed on All Souls , Day : ‘ This is the day wherein I wished to fall/By the false faith of him whom most I trusted ’ ( V.i . |
| 7 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |
| 8 | ‘ I understand you 've got a legal problem which means we ca n't go too deeply into that , but from the outside is it hurting you a little bit ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Only because you Americans insist on fighting among yourselves , ’ said Dr Neil , and began to whistle ‘ Dixie ’ , ‘ which means you can never lose … so there ! ’ |
| 10 | Meetings now on Thursdays , which means you can still attend practices at the First Aid Post on Wednesdays . ’ |
| 11 | Well , which means I ca n't come . |
| 12 | I am male which means I can not have children , I am somewhat reserved by nature so I am unlikely to be the life and soul of anyone 's party , and my chances of becoming King are very slim . |
| 13 | John Major wants to take credit for the recovery without owning up to earlier mistakes — which means he can neither praise the ERM nor bury it . |
| 14 | Five-year-old Boris Primorac suffers from a rare blood disorder which means he can not run around like other children , without severe bruising . |
| 15 | Or is it that the working class has shrunk to a level which means it can never put Labour into power ? |
| 16 | She , she 's there on Social Security which means she can only do part time education because if you 're on the Social Security you have to available to do a job |