Example sentences of "which we [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the clinical and educational professions ( and the lay notions which derive their values from them ) , their very practice makes it clear what fact it is that you ‘ come to terms ’ with : you have not given birth to a member of the human species as we define it , and to which we allocate certain rights and social roles , but to an object of pathology — a ‘ monster ’ , to use a technical term employed in medical anatomy . |
| 2 | He himself , he says , does ‘ not belong to the party that would condemn the common and familiar ways of speaking ’ , according to which we know many things at the level of appearances , such as that I am now seated rather than standing , and that fire appears hot rather than cold . |
| 3 | Human language is not just a tool by which we control other people and control the material world out there ; it is also a device which allows us to formulate metaphysical concepts , and to recognize , at a conscious level , the binary oppositions which are basic to the structure of ordered thought . |
| 4 | Local correspondents were ‘ warning every day that the events which we saw last winter may occur again' . |
| 5 | The top management group with which we began this chapter decided to begin to change their organisational defensive routines by beginning with the ones that they create in their own meetings . |
| 6 | A system that forces some into the worst schools is hardly one that meets the canons of social justice with which we began this article . |
| 7 | I enclose a Christmas card for Wilson Efren Ruiz , although we have not yet heard whether he received the greetings and small gift which we sent last Christmas . |
| 8 | We must review and state the principal areas in which we hold environmental information — this could be done in our Annual Report . |
| 9 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 10 | ‘ We plan to use the cash proceeds to build up our environmental service business in the US particularly to expand our $42m Tropical Plant Rental business which we acquired last year , ’ said Mr Thompson . |
| 11 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 12 | Which we made good margins on . |
| 13 | For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty . |
| 14 | Human society — without which we remain atomistic individuals , isolated and alone . |
| 15 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 16 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 17 | The process of reform upon which we embarked some time ago runs against some ingrained attitudes in public sector management , but they are beginning to change . |
| 18 | Our immediate agenda must be the talks on which we embarked last year . |
| 19 | We could also set up an effect-to-cause study in which we match two groups for which the response measurements differ and look to see if they also differ in some previous X-type phenomenon . |
| 20 | The only occasions on which we got fleeting moments of commitment were ones where I or my British colleagues were present and involved . |
| 21 | So our schema for representing that knowledge should be reflected in the concepts in accordance with which we analyse actual accounts . |
| 22 | This gives some substance , then , to the intuition ( which we hope other readers share with us ) that those seven words " The discreet door shut with a click " are Just right " for their purpose . |
| 23 | In addition to the department itself , there are several other departments and research centres in the University with which we maintain active links . |
| 24 | one of the reasons which we lacked last year was er , was a , was a fast , you know , opening bowler . |
| 25 | Clarity and efficiency are , for example , not criteria by which we judge social talk , and the world would be a very unpleasant place if they were . |
| 26 | The extent to which we aggregate individual units in this way depends of course on the purpose at hand . |
| 27 | But secondly it highlights the fact that women are entitled to the freedom to engage with and be part of all the creative , nurturing processes with which we organize human reality . |
| 28 | From this experiment , I would be inclined to belief that psychology should be predominantly an activity in which we use non-experimental methods for understanding people 's experiences in their own terms , taking into account the social context of those experiments , rather than an activity in which we transform common sense into scientific knowledge . |
| 29 | It is not something impelled like a machine by a little egoistic inside ’ ; and again , ‘ deadness , in the limited sense in which we use that word , is the first condition of art . |
| 30 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |