Example sentences of "[noun] which we [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many facts about the remote past and the remote future which we shall have no means ever of recognizing or verifying . |
| 2 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |
| 3 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 4 | Are the Americans going over the top again , or is this an indictment which we should place on trial ? |
| 5 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 6 | We have formulated an ideal piece of research which we could never hope to carry out with our own ( almost certainly ) limited money , time and personnel . |
| 7 | The case has become even stronger as British people gain more opportunities to participate in foreign lotteries — thus increasing the risk that funds which we could put to good use in Britain will be diverted abroad . |
| 8 | Whilst talking about reducibility of polynomials we mention a very important result which we shall , using just a tiny bit of analysis , prove in full later ( Theorem 4.8.1 ) . |
| 9 | To achieve this necessarily takes time and it is thus the means and goals which we should examine today rather than the setting first of arbitrary ( financial ) parameters . |
| 10 | What I would like to do with the financi financial commentary , is because it is , is an historic document , I would like to pull out a few plums which we can team brief . |
| 11 | After that exercise we spent an hour and a half preparing for the case study which we would have to accomplish the next day . |
| 12 | The second is that the pain or distress which we could probably relieve by crying , is so powerful , so overwhelming , that it becomes too deep for tears . |
| 13 | The beginning of most written sentences fits a pattern or template which we can represent like this : |
| 14 | The Saturday Review bitterly commented that they had ‘ framed for themselves a rule which we must characterize as both illogical and unfair — namely , of distributing their patronage so that no competitor should net more than one premium ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ We discovered there were elms which we could use on the Floors Estate and so the Duke agreed to sell them to us . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And yet to have been there and heard none of the holy words which we should naturally have listened for from those lips at such a time — how distressing ! ’ |
| 17 | We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes . |
| 18 | Fluctuations in the value of the pound were , however , to be made up in Marks and Spencer underwear which we would get our friends to mail out from Britain . |
| 19 | They live in a world of scents and aromas which we can not even begin to comprehend . |
| 20 | That will give us many important opportunities which we must not let drop . |
| 21 | Early English pop was riddled with homosexuality and that sensibility which we would now call camp — partly this was due to homosexual familiarity with those areas of human activity which were now being exploited , and partly to the early music industry 's seedy beginnings on the fringes of established showbusiness . |
| 22 | In some ways they are even better than our own , for a squid can distinguish polarised light which we can not do and their retinas have a finer structure which means , almost certainly , that they can distinguish finer detail than we can . |
| 23 | We tend to think of animal vision only in terms of that part of the spectrum of light which we can see ; and yet we know that the spectrum extends far beyond this . |
| 24 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 25 | But having weighed up the two options , at the end of the article , he concluded : ' … in every language it turns out that almost all the results lie within a relatively short stretch which we may call the sentence … |
| 26 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 27 | However , in England the principle has been inflated into a much more extreme dogma which we may call the ‘ extravagant version ’ of the doctrine . |
| 28 | I would just tell him this that er there is a problem here which my Right Honourable Friend is addressing and depending on the outcome of those consultations and discussions , will obviously depend the action which we will have to take . |
| 29 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 30 | I believe that leaning , like look-out , is a basic technique which we should apply not only above 5,000 feet , not only on Tuesdays but every time we fly . |