Example sentences of "thing which [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attitudes expressed by value statements are all ways of favouring or disfavouring things which we would like to see shared . |
| 2 | steel stock holder there , there is in fact er , a , a wood saw , there 's also a shed manufacturer and also a clear waste of Thetford also uses that , there are large houses , erm in there and all that traffic has to trundle along through residential areas , again onto er onto public routes , er indeed also in fact Pengate Road is very unattractive looking er settlement , if I can use that expression , so for Weeting my proposals would in fact disguise that by embankment and by tree planting , in fact I think that Weeting would gain considerably and it 's these sort of things which we will press upon your vote to draw their attention not just the |
| 3 | A child acquires our concept of red through being trained to react as the rest of us do to certain things ( things which we can specify only by using the language in question [ cf. 432 ] ) . |
| 4 | For instance , the experimental psychologists Premack and Rumbaugh have asked whether chimps can perceive the world as humans can , and do things which we can do . |
| 5 | These views concern the fact that the singular particular things which we can point to and pick out with the words ‘ this ’ and ‘ that ’ , and to which we often give names , such as ‘ James ’ or ‘ John ’ , are not thought of as being merely particular . |
| 6 | We can divide the components of sea water into three erm categories firstly those things which we can consider to be major constituents these are substances which are present are concentrations greater than one part per million . |
| 7 | ‘ That the Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 , the provisions of which are summarised in the Appendix to the letter to members of the Company dated 16th June 1993 , to be constituted by the Rules produced in draft to this meeting and for the purposes of identification initialled by the Chairman hereof , be and is hereby approved and the Directors be and are hereby authorised to do all acts and things which they may consider necessary or expedient for implementing and giving effect to the same including making such amendments to the Rules as may be necessary to gain the approval of the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 8 | I could n't possibly compete in those stakes , so I racked my brain to think of small things which they might like . |
| 9 | Erm y'know I mean because people have a whole variety of reactions to these things which you may want to investigate more specifically . |
| 10 | So there 's a number of different dimensions to these things which you may want to attack . |
| 11 | Other things which you may consume more when the summer comes , and which are common allergens , are cola drinks , shell fish , pineapples , cherries and plums . |
| 12 | They were alright , big glass things which you could surround and pack in tea chests with bits and pieces and equipment in . |
| 13 | The sort of things which you will need to decide upon are noted below ; it is not essential that you do any of these things , because even if you do not give written arguments , or you do not attend the hearing or send a representative , the Committee will consider the information given to them by the Council and then reach a decision on your case . |
| 14 | Although you will not be able to take your puppy out at once , there are many things which you can do to form a close bond between you and your new pet . |
| 15 | And , you know , the sort of things which you can remember , which I can remember , some of the glorious ones , one when I was working up in Lancashire , about this time of year when the , the new May Day Bank Holiday was announced in about nineteen seventy-two or three or something and through five editions of the Lancashire Evening Post was a headline which said ‘ New Pubic Holiday ’ . |
| 16 | When Rodrigo heard this it pleased him well , and he said to the King that he would do his bidding in this , and in all other things which he might command ; and the King thanked him much . |
| 17 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 18 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 19 | So again , it 's a thing which you might consider when you 're er letting vehicles come in front and er I the rights and wrongs of erm flashing lights , er really the only flashing lights should take the place of a horn . |