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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Keep clear sign which he should n't have done . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Make sure the abbreviation used is not a proper word which you might use elsewhere in the document . |
| 16 | It is very easy to read him wrong , and to make mistakes , and there are of course occasions when he does offer a brutal simplicity which it would be ridiculous to , to try and develop . |
| 17 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 18 | Studies of cognition which seek to elucidate the nature or that cultural order which we might impose upon or recognize in the world may well be concerned with the classification of objects , but they generally fail to acknowledge , let alone address , the difference between artefacts such as cutlery which already incorporate categorization in their manufac-turer , and objects such as trees which do not ( e.g. Rosch 1978 : 30–5 ) . |
| 19 | 5.6 There is another important adjectival position which we should now introduce . |
| 20 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 21 | It is a made to a British standard which you can tell when you buy anything like that by the kite mark on the side . |
| 22 | the shared work load allowed the father more free time which he must learn to use ; |
| 23 | Our proposals were that SERPS should be abolished and that the second pension should come from a variety of new options in the private sector which we would make available . |
| 24 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 25 | I attach a copy of a standard contract which I would be grateful if you could sign and return to me with the invoice for your fee . |
| 26 | Others may prefer to continue the addictive process rather than accept the need for personal change which they may perceive to be more painful than continuing the addiction . |
| 27 | You will , I am quite sure , agree with me totally when I say , our beautiful , delectable , Annabelle is irreplaceable , and we shall miss her dreadfully , when she departs across the skies to the beautiful tropical paradise which she will enhance immeasurably … |
| 28 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 29 | The Plowden Report on Control of Public Expenditure contained , amongst other nuggets of wisdom , the following sentence which I should like to take as my starting-point : ‘ The social changes of the last fifteen years have altered the incidence of hardship , so that there now may well be excessive social services for some purposes and inadequate ones for others . ’ |
| 30 | Since the role of subjective risk is of particular importance in theories of driving , one part of this question is simply whether drivers are aware of subjective risk , either as a feeling which is occasionally present in immediately dangerous situations but otherwise non-existent ( consistent with a zero-risk theory of driving ) or as a continually fluctuating level which they can be aware of when questioned and which they attempt to match to some target level ( consistent with RHT ) . |