Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a ghastly bogye , which doth them greatly affear . |
| 2 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 3 | I was also interested in the possible help for tension , worry and lowering my blood pressure which had lately begun to rise and which concerned me greatly . |
| 4 | Angry too that she had not been trusted with knowledge which concerned her so much . |
| 5 | We are not here concerned with the elusive though connected fact that causal circumstances in a different sense explain their effects , that sense which concerned us earlier in connection with causal priority . |
| 6 | Where desire has been returned to us , it is in the shape of a ‘ masculine ’ libido which fits us very badly , and even then we have no vocabulary with which to express it . |
| 7 | Fanny drives with his usual relish , turning the wheel with exaggerated movements and indulging one of his favourite habits , which involves him sporadically singing the chorus of some great Woodstockesque opus . |
| 8 | One friend said that , in later life , Eliot could never bear to mention Vivien 's named and another has written of his feelings of " guilt and horror , which haunted him daily " and how once he observed , " I can never forget anything " . |
| 9 | Perhaps the person experiences an overwhelming sense of injustice which renders them less capable of dealing with the problem a second time . |
| 10 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 11 | He 'd made his fortune selling baths , bidets and toilets , which lent him little by way of mystique . |
| 12 | When Charles visited Walahfrid 's old monastery at Reichenau , the poet produced an appropriate encomium : Due glory we accord To the power of the Trinity Which conveyed you here safe and sound Through the realms of the Franks ! … |
| 13 | Obviously frost-free models which mean you never have to defrost are as useful as self-cleaning ovens , and additional luxuries include iced water and crushed ice dispensers , automatic ice makers and the kind of American model with almost instant ( that is to say about an hour ) automatic ice cream and sorbet or sherbet-makers . |
| 14 | Is there any kind of conflict which upsets you more than others ? |
| 15 | We are looking for a compromise position between behaviourism , which identified mental states with some function of behaviour , and the approach common to the sceptical argument and the argument from analogy , which separates them too much . |
| 16 | They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material . |
| 17 | There was an Audi which passed me soon after I 'd left the pub . |
| 18 | It combined within itself in eloquent reflection of the age which produced it both a daring and innovative modernity and a heroic and comforting traditionalism . |
| 19 | The English-speaking world , which reveres him quite as much as does Iberia , knows him as Ferdinand Magellan . |
| 20 | In any case , the vacuous character of ( 14 ) and ( 15 ) can apparently be reduced or even made to disappear by various means without changing the elements or touching the intensional relations which bind them together . |
| 21 | But the vast majority are acted on by enzymes , which change them chemically in biotransformation reactions ( see p 165 ) . |
| 22 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 23 | Slipping through the nearest black hole , maybe we can retrace the giant steps for mankind which led us here . |
| 24 | We walked alongside the stream and then negotiated the board-walk which led us safely across a treacherous bog to the shores of the tarn . |
| 25 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 26 | Like most happy-go-lucky people , she had a good many minor misfortunes , which amused her as much as everyone else . |
| 27 | One method , which by-passes the problems of tape-to-tape synchronisation , is to speak it direct to a microphone which records it straight onto the video tape via the mixer during a non-stop transfer . |
| 28 | When we think of Callas , we think of an incredible musician with an incredibly strong dramatic gift , but there have also been great voices in history and there are some orchestras which are successful with your understanding , at least , because they have this collective voice which impresses you immediately . |
| 29 | He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God . |
| 30 | The culture industry does retain a trace of something better in those features which bring it close to the circus , in the self-justifying and nonsensical skill of riders , acrobats and clowns , in the ‘ defense and justification of physical as against intellectual art ’ ( Wedekind ) . |