Example sentences of "a [noun] which [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offering small quantities would also give greater variety to people 's diets , a variety which they may be unable to obtain if they can only buy in quantity . |
| 2 | An enormous progress will have occurred over the course of these exercises — a progress which you should be aware of , feel and thoroughly take in . |
| 3 | I have considered whether this is a case which I should remit for hearing before the justices . |
| 4 | I think that whether as er Mr submits and is a guideline case and to be adapted to changing conditions or whether it is a case which lays down a bounding rate , that it is a case which I should follow and that the reasoning leading to the adoption of two percent as the appropriate percentage to be applied still applies today , thus the calculation is one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds times two percent , is two thousand , seven hundred pounds times seventeen , is forty five thousand , nine hundred pounds , to this there is to be added a cost of conversion , thirty two thousand , four hundred and seventy two pounds less the enhancement in value thereby created of twelve thousand , five hundred pounds that is a figure of nineteen thousand , nine hundred and seventy two . |
| 5 | The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | It will use local natural gas as a feedstock which it will use for the production of syn-gas , methanol and then petrol . |
| 8 | you know , there 's a description which you can choose to listen to or not |
| 9 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 10 | Once you have agreed , this will be written into a contract which you will be required to sign . |
| 11 | ( It is a story which we shall tell in the following chapter . ) |
| 12 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | Equally , you might use ambiguous words which your superiors treat as a resignation which they will not allow you to retract . |
| 15 | I must begin with a coincidence which I would not dare to recount if this were a work of fiction . |
| 16 | There 's a move to legalise lifting , a change which I would wholeheartedly endorse . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) The following classes of cases are usually not subject to the doctrine : ( a ) those which include a restraint which does not involve the convenantor in giving up a freedom which he would otherwise have enjoyed unless the restraint creates a positive duty to do something which restricts his freedom during the period of its operation ; ( b ) those which , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations ; and ( c ) those in which the purpose and nature of the restraint is coterminous with the purpose of the contract . |
| 18 | Er you 'll find that we do have actually have a calculator which we can send out with a retirement pack and that actually gives you an aide-memoire to actually remind you about the things that you might forget erm with regard to erm things like er holidays er erm say , medical expenses , er fuel expenses , erm club fees , T V licence , all those things . |
| 19 | One reason for this is that many people have a fear which they can not conceal of anything or anybody who reminds them of death ; knowing that contact with a grieving widow will exacerbate these fears they tend , after expressing their sympathy by word or letter , and sending flowers to the funeral , to withdraw to a safe distance ‘ to give her time to get over it ’ just when she needs them most . |
| 20 | One or two of the items of growth particularly have been er identified as illustrative which may mean that you can choose er almost any amount you like er to be spent on those particular items just identify er a figure which you may consider the starting point . |
| 21 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Germaine Greer has coined a term which you may have read , which is er which is called PM zed ! |
| 24 | Your day starts with the news of a murder which you should attend . |
| 25 | Perhaps this position can best be tested by taking an extreme example — a crime which it would seem to be impossible to accept as being within the ‘ normal ’ range of human motivations : sexual abuse of children . |
| 26 | The family can find forgiveness but not comprehension of a crime which it will take weeks to clear up . |
| 27 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |
| 28 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 29 | So even if somebody were to offer us a piece which they would n't I 'm sure , a piece of old medieval furniture , we would n't take it . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |