Example sentences of "which you [modal v] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem unskilled in the simple acts that console women when they are distressed — like being held gently for as long as they need to be held , making murmuring noises rather than using words ( or even worse , forming sentences ) , wiping tears away and blowing noses … in other words giving the same comfort which you would give to a child . |
| 2 | The benefits which you would derive from a properly set up and run computerised accounting system should more than out-weigh the additional costs involved . |
| 3 | And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . ) |
| 4 | Spreadsheets are also borrowing features from other categories of package , such as Excel 's multi-language spellchecker and thesaurus , which you might expect in a word processor but will be pleasantly surprised to find in a spreadsheet . |
| 5 | For many situations which you will face as a manager it is safe to assume that your audience may only have time to grasp perhaps just three ideas . |
| 6 | Cut away the leaflets from the leaf-stalk at the bud you are taking , but leave the stalk , which you will need as a handle . |
| 7 | The natural prototype for a metric space is the world we live in , where the metric is Euclidean distance which you can measure with a ruler . |
| 8 | You receive a book of orders ( or pension book ) which you can cash at a post office of your choice . |
| 9 | If you are feeling particularly energetic , there are tennis courts right next door to the apartments which you can hire for a small charge . |
| 10 | Ken and Pat Ferguson would like to re-cover your dining-chair seats for a labour charge of only £5 each plus the cost of fabric , which you can choose from a selection of pieces available in stock at reduced prices , or supply your own fabric . |
| 11 | If your pension is £2 a week or less , it will normally be paid once a year in arrears by a crossed order which you can pay into a bank or building society account . |
| 12 | Also exposed are 2Mb of RAM attached to the motherboard , three SIMM expansion slots which you can expand to a maximum of 14Mb , and a 40Mb Seagate hard drive . |
| 13 | They think it is a geometry exercise and some of them will produce accurate classical descriptions which you can acknowledge with a nod . |
| 14 | The album is remarkably well-packaged , complete with a gatefold lyric sheet which you can convert into a poetry pamphlet , while the music is diverse and includes a radical re-working of the ‘ Batman ’ theme , some beat poetry and Aeroplanesque R&B . |
| 15 | The problem comes when you meet a horizontal nogging — the positions of which you can determine with a joist and batten detector . |
| 16 | The result is a database on which you can search for a favourite author or publisher , or search for packages that give you the required level of coverage of particular elements ( or units ) of competence . |
| 17 | You also need brushes which you can buy from a hardware store . |
| 18 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 19 | all it was was a box really , a box which you could get off a , a , a machine and dump it on the ground , erm the idea came from , from er I think dustcarts really , where , where you could sort of tip them up and , and they 'd empty , and that , that was this early thought on it er |
| 20 | but in the twenties I was better at the pictures or somewhere like that , which you could get for a few pence , but you 're not walking about or doing tiring thing . |
| 21 | Four and a half yards , which you could tackle as a lad and then they er paid you for what you did . |
| 22 | The model illustrated has the facility to take a heater and a separate thermostat if required , lights and a pump , with a spare terminal which you could use for a power filter . |
| 23 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |