Example sentences of "[noun sg] which we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many facts about the remote past and the remote future which we shall have no means ever of recognizing or verifying . |
| 2 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |
| 3 | Are the Americans going over the top again , or is this an indictment which we should place on trial ? |
| 4 | After that exercise we spent an hour and a half preparing for the case study which we would have to accomplish the next day . |
| 5 | The beginning of most written sentences fits a pattern or template which we can represent like this : |
| 6 | The Saturday Review bitterly commented that they had ‘ framed for themselves a rule which we must characterize as both illogical and unfair — namely , of distributing their patronage so that no competitor should net more than one premium ’ . |
| 7 | Fluctuations in the value of the pound were , however , to be made up in Marks and Spencer underwear which we would get our friends to mail out from Britain . |
| 8 | We tend to think of animal vision only in terms of that part of the spectrum of light which we can see ; and yet we know that the spectrum extends far beyond this . |
| 9 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 10 | But having weighed up the two options , at the end of the article , he concluded : ' … in every language it turns out that almost all the results lie within a relatively short stretch which we may call the sentence … |
| 11 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 12 | However , in England the principle has been inflated into a much more extreme dogma which we may call the ‘ extravagant version ’ of the doctrine . |
| 13 | I would just tell him this that er there is a problem here which my Right Honourable Friend is addressing and depending on the outcome of those consultations and discussions , will obviously depend the action which we will have to take . |
| 14 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 15 | I believe that leaning , like look-out , is a basic technique which we should apply not only above 5,000 feet , not only on Tuesdays but every time we fly . |
| 16 | ( It is a story which we shall tell in the following chapter . ) |
| 17 | But there is in fact a very interesting er story archaeological story which we can deduce from the outside of this building . |
| 18 | Yellow Pages or some of the local journals or whatever and will have a copy in existence which we can use . |
| 19 | I must say that the way the discussion has gone this morning , is n I would say , slightly disappointing because there is some attempt to make a positive contribution , but at the moment it 's not necessarily pointing us quite in the direction which we would hope to go . |
| 20 | grant him every advantage which we can conceive a white to possess over the native ; concede that in the struggle for existence his chance of a long life will be much superior to that of the native chiefs ; yet from all these admissions , there does not follow the conclusion that , after a limited or unlimited number of generations , the inhabitants of the island will be white . |
| 21 | Lucas has advanced certain ingenious theoretical devices to explain the phenomenon of persistence which we shall examine later in this chapter . |
| 22 | Lewis had his two slender volumes of verse , and Tolkien his learned edition of Sir Gawain and the Green knight and his article on Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meith-had ( which combines deep linguistic learning with a justly famous account of the world of this West Midland prose writer which we can recognize as a foretaste of the Hobbit 's native Shire ) . |
| 23 | ( vi ) On unc the relation R defined by ( a , b ) R ( c , d ) iff ad = bc is an equivalence relation of a kind which we shall meet again in the proof of 3.10.3 . |
| 24 | The recommendations er , Chairman , are that the , that we should support a payment of five thousand pounds to business link which we can find funds from existing resources that we 've got . |
| 25 | The broader property base which we would introduce would mean a fairer distribution of the burden . |
| 26 | The term " donor " , for example , is specific to a genre which we might call " writing about narrative in a tradition following Vladimir Propp " ; and the term " the Imaginary " is specific to the genre " recent psychoanalytically-influenced criticism " . |
| 27 | On the basis of experience then , we recognise types of communicative events which take place against the background of a mass of below-conscious expectations also based on past experience which we might summarise , following van Dijk ( 1977 : 99 ) , as ‘ the ASSUMED NORMALITY of the world . |
| 28 | Equally , the depth and directness of experience which we can supply practically in the classroom varies . |
| 29 | Red-brick universities , inner-city polytechnics and the Open University have dented that assumption ; but perhaps there are still features of the student experience which we should hold on to if higher education is to offer a cultural enlargement ? |
| 30 | Throughout the debate , shortfall has been defined as the gap between fees charged by some homes and the maximum level of income support which we will pay for different categories of persons in those homes . |