Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [modal v] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the treaty of union , where is the mechanism by which we may change the law ? |
| 2 | In summary , one can say that one can not teach any creature to mentally be like any other , since we have no handle by which we may modify the essential mind structure of another creature . |
| 3 | Compare what we take to be the true causal circumstance for last night , which we may label the solar conditions . |
| 4 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 5 | These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us . |
| 6 | Literary texts are not some static crystalline structure in which we may glimpse a captured immobile past . |
| 7 | Another related problem is in the general vagueness of the relationship between the constraints of capitalism and the scope for state autonomy and pluralistic policy-making processes — none of the structuralist approaches offer clear criteria according to which we may define the limits of each . |
| 8 | To describe the positions and velocities of atoms in a polymer requires choosing a set of global axes , defining a continuum , with reference to which we may describe the positions and velocities of the atoms . |
| 9 | ‘ The threat ’ has become , in Soviet parlance , ‘ well known ’ , and well stereotyped : on their side , an economy locked into a scale and a tempo of war production which we may lack the will or wherewithal to match ; on our side , a technological edge eroding under pressure of rising capital costs and determined Soviet effort ; and finally , the forfeiture of strategic and nuclear superiorities which historically have served as NATO 's trumps against traditional Soviet strengths . |
| 10 | What do we believe of the connections between such a set , which we may call a causal circumstance , and the effect ? |
| 11 | Style is a relational term : we talk about " the style of x " , referring through " style " to characteristics of language use , and correlating these with some extralinguistic x , which we may call the stylistic DOMAIN . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | However , in England the principle has been inflated into a much more extreme dogma which we may call the ‘ extravagant version ’ of the doctrine . |
| 14 | If you have a look at the four versions of the videos , I hope what you 'll do is have in front of you er the advocacy criteria guide , which we 'll speak a bit more about in a moment , and actually look and see well , how is it that these people meet , those things , they do n't necessarily but how , how are they persuasive advocates ? |
| 15 | school at which we 'll invite the press . |
| 16 | Home rule and proportional representation are the means by which we shall break the stranglehold of Westminster . |
| 17 | They are also the means by which we shall provide a system of government which commands the confidence of all the people , in which the democratic deficit is made good and in which pluralism is entrenched . |
| 18 | As an example of this sort of semantic continuum , which we shall call a sense-spectrum , consider the following use of mouth : |
| 19 | The coordinate r is different from the radial distance measured from the centre of the mass M , which we shall call a . |
| 20 | A point in space–time ( which we shall call an event ) has coordinates x , y , z with respect to a rectangular Cartesian set of space axes at time t . |
| 21 | ( which , strictly speaking , constitutes the vocabulary system ) , there is another system , both psychological and social in nature , which we shall call the system of attitudes . |
| 22 | Even I itself can be factorised in a variety of ways ; as one example , if J is the square matrix which has units in its secondary diagonal and zeros elsewhere , which we shall call the reversing matrix , then |
| 23 | Entities , being elements of a specifically linguistic domain which we shall call the intensional level , may or may not have a referent in some real or imaginary external world ; we can certainly talk about an entity while uncertain of the existence of any related " thing " in the world about which we are speaking , or even while explicitly rejecting such an existence . |
| 24 | There are many facts about the remote past and the remote future which we shall have no means ever of recognizing or verifying . |
| 25 | This is the last occasion on which we shall have the opportunity to debate foreign affairs and the Gracious Speech in this Parliament . |
| 26 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 27 | One certainly would not understand that the real choice was between de facto membership of a deutschmark zone in which we would have no influence and membership of a single currency system in which we would have a stake . |
| 28 | But as for perceptual and emotional awareness , lacking which we would have no motive to bother about facts , without pleasure or hope it simply fades . |
| 29 | One certainly would not understand that the real choice was between de facto membership of a deutschmark zone in which we would have no influence and membership of a single currency system in which we would have a stake . |
| 30 | At our last meeting it was decided to make the meeting on November 10th , an extended on in which we would consider the distinctive role of Christian Aid Scotland within the national structures . |