Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] which [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I assume you 're using the word ‘ nice ’ in the true sense of ‘ neat ’ , as in the neatly ruthless deals I 'm sure he 's notorious for clinching , or the neat asset-stripping technique which I dare say he 's renowned for ? ’ |
| 2 | These data were supplemented by the radar ‘ looking ’ sideways at the surface , a rather subtle technique which I shall not describe . |
| 3 | The Ibrox side are resigned to being without the Englishman for the European Cup showdown with Marseille on 7 April because of the automatic one-match ban which he must serve after his sending off against Brugge on Wednesday night . |
| 4 | That would be a major constitutional and economic decision which we could not possibly take here and now . |
| 5 | A woman as passive and yet responsive as she was could well suffer emotional distress which she would not overtly express . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 8 | The effect of the proviso was that if the plaintiff were to recover post-termination commission he would be required to give up some freedom which he would otherwise have had , namely the freedom to take employment in whichever field he wished . |
| 9 | But that is another story which we can not yet look back on . |
| 10 | In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take . |
| 11 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 12 | Now , what I am about to teach you is an extension of your eidetic capability which you will find of great use in your intended career . |
| 13 | Hope had written an evasive reply which he would frank and give to George Wood to post for him but he doubted that he could deter him for much longer . |
| 14 | Are there any similar developments in the Programme of Work for this session which you can expect to see in the Catalogue for 1989/90 ? |
| 15 | A further issue which we may also wish to consider is the one of ‘ value added ’ . |
| 16 | ( Though there are substantial deviations from this profile which we shall refer to below . ) |
| 17 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |
| 18 | Keep clear sign which he should n't have done . |
| 19 | I am very desirous to get all the species of this genus which I can , and am making observations on their flowers and fruit : for Doctor Linnaeus has joined these to his genus of Rhus [ sumach ] , with which all the species of Toxicodendron , which I have yet examined , will by no means agree ; for these are either male and female in distinct plants , or have male flowers in separate parts from the fruit on the same plant , which , according to his own system , must remove them to a great distance from the Rhus . |
| 20 | oh if it , if it was if it w if it was that one I think , I think there was some dis if , if it 's the thing I 'm thinking of there was some discrepancy , I think it was alright in the s on one occasion there was some stuff which I could n't find at the end |
| 21 | What is known is that the truce will only hold till the losing interest group can find the opportunity to create another conflict which it might win . |
| 22 | The intrinsic nature of a thing is the whole detailed character which it would share with anything else exactly like it , so far as that character is entirely a matter of what the thing is like , so to speak , within its own boundaries , while its intrinsic properties are the various discriminable elements of its intrinsic nature . |
| 23 | Clearly the town could not hold out without the castle , which the Duke contemptuously dismissed as ‘ an old hen-coop which he would speedily bring down about their ears ’ . |
| 24 | There is a Banker 's Order form attached to this leaflet which you can use . |
| 25 | For I am surprised and enchanted often by some quality which I can not detect . |
| 26 | Trotsky ( 1971 ) suggested that fascist governments emerge not where class forces are ‘ balanced ’ , but rather when the bourgeoisie has already lost its battle with the working class ; only in these circumstances will capitalists concede a very high level of autonomy to a fascist political party or social movement which they can not control . |
| 27 | Will my right hon. Friend and his Department therefore spend a great deal of time in the next six months talking to our friends the Portuguese through the Portuguese presidency , so that they may adopt a sensible policy which we can then follow ? |
| 28 | Timber , again , has a high work of fracture — about 10 4 J/m 2 — but this is produced by a totally different mechanism which we shall talk about in Chapter 6 . |
| 29 | Make sure the abbreviation used is not a proper word which you might use elsewhere in the document . |
| 30 | Obviously , Beatrice was enjoying taunting her editor and former lover with her constant references to another man which he would have understood . |