Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where family planning is not widely practised , as in the overwhelming majority of developing countries , the age at which a woman first marries or enters a conjugal union determines in large measure the age at which she bears her first child . |
| 2 | In 1977 she published an autobiographical sketch entitled ‘ Self-Confrontation and the Writer ’ in which she posits her authorial identity as a separate person whom she calls ‘ John ’ . |
| 3 | There is quiet anger in this poem against a life in which her talents are wasted ; yet the manner in which she disowns her own struggle so late in her life is surprising . |
| 4 | Wyatt answers the charge that he alters his device ( his project and designs but also his heraldic sign — the symbolic means by which he announces his public identity ) by using the analogy of changing seasons to suggest mutability is an inevitable and indeed appropriate condition . |
| 5 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 6 | The example in terms of which he expounds his Cartesian theory of perception is that of eating manna . |
| 7 | Morrissey is ‘ half a person ’ , his very being constituted around lack , maladjustment — this is the vantage point from which he launches his impossible demands on life , his denial of the reality principle . |
| 8 | The paper also reports on the role of the police , talks to people who make a living out of trivia question machines and has an exclusive interview with Lenny Henry , in which he reveals his top jokes . |
| 9 | When confronted by Sir Humphrey Stafford and other representatives of law and order , in order to challenge legitimacy at its own level Cade ‘ knights ’ himself , and ascends to verse : But he can not sustain his usurped style for very long , soon relapsing to prose , in which he conducts his grotesque inquisition of Lord Say : Say responds in verse , as a true humanist : ‘ Kent , in the Commentaries Caesar writ , /Is term 'd the civill'st place of all this isle ’ ( 60ff . ) . |
| 10 | The freedom of creation is equally important for Coleridge ; as he remarks to his son , lying beside him , ‘ but thou , my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze ’ , is a further indication of the poet 's personal response to his own ordered Christian upbringing , and the manner in which he wants his own offspring to be free in terms of imagination , and therefore have the freedom of creative thought . |
| 11 | These include the requirement that on cessation of a business an employer shall pay any Class 1A contribution in respect of the current year within 14 days after the income tax month in which he makes his final payment of earnings to employees . |
| 12 | It is being widely acknowledged , in services for all client groups that to judge outcome in terms of reduced reliance on institutional care is an overly simple view of the issues , and that a whole service needs to be judged on the extent to which it uses its residential facilities appropriately , that is for those who really need it , and for an appropriate length of stay to meet their needs . |
| 13 | In 1976 it was purchased by Phyllis and Keith who restored it , quite miraculously , from an almost derelict state to its present form in which it resembles its original appearance to an extraordinary degree . |
| 14 | Second , it may need to make itself distinct from other species with which it shares its living space . |