Example sentences of "[indef pn] which [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are very few South Saxon charters from this period and again none which reveals any necessity to secure the consent of Aethelbald . |
| 2 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 3 | At yesterday 's tree planting Mrs Frank thanked the pupils for their commitment to the community in doing something which benefited other people now and in the future . |
| 4 | Baths were something which caused continual problems . |
| 5 | An operator is simply something which turns one vector into another . |
| 6 | Er and in theory terms , primary reinforcers are something which meets biological needs , like food is a primary reinforcer , okay ? |
| 7 | But Boiotia was not a major colonizing state because — and this is the fundamental fact about her — her soil was good , something which strikes any traveller who crosses Mt Kithairon into Boiotia from Attica , and there was plenty of it , especially in the two plains to north and south controlled by Orchomenos and Thebes respectively . |
| 8 | I mean our motion you can do with it what you will but like I say we have actually aimed to actually get something which recognises all party support for the Children Act and recognises concern about the funding . |
| 9 | As he looked at her , slumped awkwardly in sleep , he tried without success to put his finger on that indefinable something which made this girl so totally English . |
| 10 | Whereas do situates the infinitive in a stretch of time in the past or non-past as something really existing or taking place in that time-stretch , the modals in ( 4 ) — ( 6 ) on the other hand situate the infinitive 's event merely as something which has certain chances of existing in the stretch of time which they express . |
| 11 | What we want to emphasise is the theoretical context of method and how this is integral to sociological investigation , not simply as a technique but as something which has profound significance for the possibility of sociology itself . |
| 12 | It is also something which has important consequences for the people studying those disciplines . |
| 13 | They often have a very small percentage of the population anyway , and er I 'm glad we 've brought this matter up , because I think that is something which needs further investigation , that the the ordinary public and the many little , or the millions of voluntary organisations ought to be encouraged to have a more output in forwarding names . |
| 14 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 15 | Anything less would mean big cuts ; something which aroused strong feeling throughout the county . |
| 16 | An empiricist theory of meaning will be one which enshrines this dependence of all language-learning , and thus of all meaningful language , on the evidence of one 's senses . |
| 17 | A new view of war , albeit one which had close links with past ideas , was gradually emerging . |
| 18 | Wayne knew how finicky she could be about place and mood , but this plan was one which had all objections beaten before they could even be raised . |
| 19 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 20 | Likewise therefore this appeal is not one which entitles any party to call evidence unless there are exceptional circumstances and leave is given : see M. v. M. ( Minors : Custody Appeal ) [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 404 . |
| 21 | In sum , the Nicaraguan penal system is one which deserves closer examination , not just because of the option it presents for other developing countries . |
| 22 | Here I want to draw attention to an article by Beverle Houston , ‘ Viewing television : the metapsychology of endless consumption ’ , which seems to me to be one of the few serious attempts to theorize television subjectivity , and one which deserves more attention . |
| 23 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 24 | There are those who feel , for instance , that a revolution did take place but not one which achieved positive effects ; or others who dispute the existence of an English revolution but who do not adhere to a neo-conservative interpretation of English history . |
| 25 | Bentham would say that the one which produces more pleasure is the better action , but Mill would say that it need not be , if the quality of the pleasure which is lesser in amount is sufficiently much higher in quality . |
| 26 | The ideal environment has come to be seen as one which offers continual opportunities to maximise learning , and succeeds in engaging the attention and motivation of the individual for as near to 100 per cent of his/her time as possible . |
| 27 | My auntie 's got one which takes six discs in a little box like that . |
| 28 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 29 | Professor W. F. Grimes in his essay ‘ The Archaeology of the Stamford Region ’ in The Making of Stamford suggests that ‘ the inscription on the recently erected pillar that marks the Roman crossing on the Welland ought to be replaced by one which does less violence to the facts as they appear to be . ’ |
| 30 | This question of a more developed central core among the small towns is an important one which requires closer attention . |