Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh det] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this which helps us to recognize that an object is from a certain period or particular place . |
| 2 | The key is the understanding of deaf children 's processing of their own language , and it is this which requires our immediate and continued attention . |
| 3 | This is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ and it is this which determines his answer , in the absence of central control . |
| 4 | And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on . |
| 5 | While English tends to modify by use of adjectives or adverbs , BSL tends to use inflection especially in relation to the verb and it is this which makes its story formation rather different . |
| 6 | And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on . |
| 7 | This was the one constraint on the expressions which could be used to set up trusts ; and it is this which explains their unexpected prominence in the discussions of the jurists . |
| 8 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 9 | The Leeds average including the 39,106 that attended the QPR game is now 34,104 which keeps us in 4th place . |
| 10 | There are several scriptures involved , such as Romans 13:8 which tells us , ‘ Let no debt remain outstanding , except the continuing debt to love one another . ’ |
| 11 | By rebreathing expelled air from the bag , you are increasing your intake of CO 2 which raises its level in the blood . |
| 12 | Such information is required , for instance , to compare the success rates of two schools , one of which only enters those who are likely to pass , and another which allows anyone to enter . |
| 13 | But it is clear what causes it : the risk of currency movements . |
| 14 | You should make quite clear what signals you 'll use to indicate that you want them to stop what they 're doing . |
| 15 | In this , however , he may be naive , for unless he is prepared to say what pertinent effects are , it is not clear what grounds he has for claiming that they always exist . |
| 16 | her thighs are far heavier than usual which makes her look solid and strong . |
| 17 | As it stands the districts seem to be wanting their cake and eat it in that they would like er a policy restricting development in the open countryside but they do n't want it to come with baggage that is specific which says what the exceptions should be . |
| 18 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 19 | So you 'd had a big breakfast and it 's still normal which implies you 're going to be fine , now |
| 20 | This is due , in part , to the ability of the powerful to criminalise and stigmatise that which threatens their interests ; and to the fact that basic motivations of capitalist societies , such as materialism and self-enrichment , can be pursued both legally and illegally . |
| 21 | This is a key point because you should always feel more or less equal to that which confronts you . |
| 22 | The Bill should be supported , but unless a much more determined attack on the problem , and its roots , is launched , we shall , I fear , have to address at some point in the future an even more hideous nightmare than that which confronts us now . |
| 23 | The notion of justice which I find most convincing is that which tells us that we ought to seek a society in which each person is accepted as of equal moral worth and has equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total sum of society 's goods . |
| 24 | They would say that by existing things reflect the presence in them of that which transcends them . |
| 25 | It has to be possible to see within reality the presence of that which transcends it — what the Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called ‘ the beyond in our midst ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're inviting into your lives a negative force , welcoming that which tempts us all , but transforming that emptiness , that jealousy , that hatred into a living , breeding monstrosity . |
| 27 | The kind of strength you need to develop is that which allows you to move your body or limbs through a short , fast contraction . |
| 28 | We must lose that which constitutes our peculiar energy . ’ |
| 29 | Already I know all about the ‘ reality ’ that supports History 's progress : everything throughout the centuries depends on the distinction between the Selfsame , the ownself … and that which limits it : so now what menaces my-own-good … is the ‘ other ’ . |
| 30 | To make continued use of the slope of the wave it is best to sail along the wave face in either direction , but the favoured direction is that which takes you upwind . |