Example sentences of "[adj] which [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now . |
| 2 | When you 've completed copying this which you should be now I think . |
| 3 | Possessing something different which they could talk to other people about . |
| 4 | Somewhere , they told me in Nairn , is a hawthorn tree carbon-dated 1372 which I must find , because Boswell mentions it ; the ‘ hawthorn-tree , which rises like a wooden pillar through the rooms of the castle ; for , by a strange conceit , the walls have been built around it ’ . |
| 5 | Central News Video I Activity Book 1 Central News Video II Activity Book 2 which I shall deliver to the Press in accordance with the letter agreement . |
| 6 | His marriage seemed like the Atlantic Ocean to her , something vast and unknowable which she could not attempt to bridge but only fly over at a terrible speed . |
| 7 | Erm and people will take on board different methods of being probed , some will respond to audio probes , some will re respond to some visual stimulation er conceptualize er ideas you know the ones we looked at last week like the old PEGGY symbols and erm the cheque book , PHI and life assurance , the ten percent rule and there is one another which we can look at , another mnemonic called er erm some of you may have come across it before , others may not and is hey so Mr Prospect if you had n't made an adequate retirement plan , what financial problems do you think you or family could have ? |
| 8 | Seven hundred and forty which you may card to ignore , that there are some base dwellings . |
| 9 | He has certainly demonstrated that he is a ‘ draw ’ : there must already be some 250 Conservative MPs in his debt for turning out an audience at least double that which they would otherwise have been able to collect . |
| 10 | But there is at least a hint in the Bill that in certain circumstances opted-out schools ( to be referred to as grant-maintained schools ) might receive extra funds from the DES : although in general such schools are to receive funding equivalent to that which they would have received from the LEA , Clause 67 ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) lay down that for certain ‘ special purposes ’ extra non-recurrent or recurrent grants may be forthcoming . |
| 11 | This figure is far smaller than that which they would make under the terms of ‘ own resources ’ were they full members of the EEC . |
| 12 | the amounts are designed to bring current award levels up to a value similar to that which they would have had when introduced . |
| 13 | For example , someone who has just completed a questionnaire ( at T 1 ) on nutrition may have a response to a film on food additives different from that which they would have had in the absence of the questionnaire . |
| 14 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 15 | Yet the quality , the range of frequencies we can detect , is only a fifth of that which we would expect from a reasonable Hi-Fi system . |
| 16 | And the new single , ‘ Certain People I Know ’ / ‘ Jack The Ripper ’ , will prove no exception to the rule , coming in a special promo sleeve which , so the Parlophone press office reckons , ‘ Has artwork similar to that which we used to use on T-Rex singles . ’ |
| 17 | It could be that we are fatally drawn to the mysterious : the water is that which we can not fathom , the unfathomable . |
| 18 | We find the process simultaneously tiring , frustrating and rewarding when , at the end of tussling with some problems , we reach a shared view and a commitment to that view , which is usually of a different order to that which we can achieve by any other means . |
| 19 | Sound , too , possibly the second most important sense to man , covers a range far greater than that which we can hear . |
| 20 | In so doing , tragedy teaches us to contemplate with equanimity , indeed with serene detachment , that which we can not change and should therefore speedily abandon . |
| 21 | Under other constitutional systems , one can detect a vague principle that a parliament can not do indirectly that which it can not do directly , but there is little authority for such a doctrine here . |
| 22 | He points out that we need to distinguish between the contribution that research can make to policy and that which it can make to social work practice . |
| 23 | In essence the business of this unit is to provide what it sensibly can and to purchase that which it can not provide . |
| 24 | The definition of what constitutes insider information is therefore crucial , for it determines the information a conglomerate may pass through the Wall and that which it must conceal . |
| 25 | One could use various pejorative terms to describe that which I wo n't but but my clients felt very strongly that there are not very many people living in Scotton and it was an easy option to say let's push the road further away . |
| 26 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 27 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 28 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 29 | I must get one for my er garage er , er a tape recorder , I 've got the wireless in there but oh you know er , most of the time it 's the noise is n't it , you know what I mean , get the odd programme you want to listen to , but a lot of the time it 's erm pop music and that which I ca n't , I ca n't abide and then your Jimmy Young and |
| 30 | It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided . |