Example sentences of "things which we [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 . |