Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Washington insiders believe that she told her husband how she felt and suggested he should use the ‘ excuse ’ of Graves Disease , a condition affecting the heart rhythm which they both suffer from , as a way of standing down from office . |
| 2 | In an interview contemporary with the novel , Brooke-Rose explains that ‘ Amalgamemnon is in fact about the violence which we all commit when we 're always trying to amalgamate people and put them in a category ’ ( 1984b ) , but the novel also turns this strategy back on itself and uses ‘ amalgamation ’ to shatter categories . |
| 3 | Rhetorically its strategy of reiteration attempts to unify different groups into one political bloc by appealing to a single source of oppression which they all share . |
| 4 | Occasionally overlap may have the opposite effect due to the ‘ falling between two stools ’ phenomenon , two operators at the same level or at different levels may each assume that the other has taken a particular action which they both know is required . |
| 5 | I am concerned about the practical effect of the Labour party 's opposition to the Bill , which would be to hamper or prevent the necessary restructuring of the coal industry which we all know to be necessary . |
| 6 | would would also be wise for any new settlement which you chief specify , that any new settlement you may recommend should also include some provision for expansion land , and my point I think is that you could not divide a settlement as big as five thousand , I think it would be reasonable to say a new settlement make with a an eventual capacity of say three and a half thousand , that might be appropriate around Greater York . |
| 7 | We accept responsibility for any loss or damage which you amy suffer on holidays as a result of the negligence of our employees or agents . |
| 8 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 9 | Instead , they are felt with the keen sense of personal radar which we all have . |
| 10 | The notion that the writing is meant to explain her work to others is supported by her use if the ‘ revolutionary ’ -to-evolutionary ’ tag which she first used in a letter to a friend ( in 1919 ) and then , quoting herself , she reemploys the phrase in her diary ( in 1920 , and again , in 1921 ) . |
| 11 | One form of the argument makes direct use of the extreme sense of wonder which we all feel when confronted with highly complicated machinery , like the detailed perfection of the echo-location equipment of bats . |
| 12 | This is the source of the oxygen which we all require and which we take in when we breathe . |
| 13 | There are forms of dance which we all admit as forms of art : for example , classical ballet . |
| 14 | Dancing masters gradually developed the classical technique from European folk dance which they first changed into the elegant steppings of courtiers in the palaces of Italian and Spanish kings and prelates . |
| 15 | It had an emergency exit which they all had a go at unbolting . |
| 16 | This is the apparatus which we first assumed , in the task 's original definition . |
| 17 | Receptions to which Alan had invited me — and an educational conference which we both attended . |
| 18 | Elstir 's paintings persuade Marcel of their truth , but it 's a truth which is different from the intellectual truth which he first brought to his initial contemplation of those paintings , and Marcel says that in this way , by his art , Elstir frees us from the cramping tyranny of the intellect , by painting , and again I quote , ‘ by painting some unusual picture of a familiar object . |
| 19 | In attempting to apply this reasoning to British general practice I shall use some of the field-data collected by Jim McIntosh and myself ( Horobin and McIntosh 1977 ) but I shall also be trying to apply a sociological perspective to the mundane background knowledge which we all possess as societal members . |
| 20 | Instead , each of us is thought of as starting more or less from scratch and the philosophical questions are how we can come from such a state , via our awareness of the passing show of sensory experience , to the sophisticated knowledge which we all have as members of a modern society . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State has said several times today how proud he is of British Rail 's safety record — a pride which we all share — but that is surely no reason not to look again at the real doubts that have arisen in the past year about manning , the number of hours worked and the quality of some of the new systems of signalling that are being installed . |
| 22 | With regard to their own work , three of the four women said they had been criticised by White feminists for ‘ too much sex ’ or for ‘ collusion in the exploitation of women for the male gaze ’ , a criticism which they all felt was inappropriate and indicative not just of Western ignorance vis-à-vis questions of representation and cultural difference , but also of institutional and political constraints . |
| 23 | This diagram is , of course , the old and familiar friend which we first encountered in Chapter 2 when discussing Pigou 's theory of employment . |
| 24 | They are irrelevant to the battle against crime , and the improved efficiency of the police service which we all support . |
| 25 | As an example which we all know about , think of the famous map of the London Underground system . |
| 26 | Th it 's been pinpointed for us that all these lovely tea , coffee , and chocolate which we all adore , is , is one of the things which is causing the greatest distress and unfairness in the world . |
| 27 | I think that the bill which we first saw may well not be the bill that is eventually produced at the end of the day . |
| 28 | The Book of Psalms opens by describing this choice which we all make : the choice to move towards God , or away from him . |
| 29 | Securicor has described Mr letts death as a tragic waste of life which they whole heartedly condemn . |
| 30 | Each nationality had contributed a song which we all had to learn . |