Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday evenings , at the end of wash-day , which I thought when small was always the worst day of the week , this would be rolled ( it was on castors ) to the centre of the room . |
| 2 | I , I 'm interested in the cameras which I use and that 's it . |
| 3 | … American and European societies became increasingly interdependent , by which I mean that complex urban-industrial societies involved individuals in unprecedentedly complex patterns of relations extending beyond personal and community ties to distant bonds no less real because of their obscurity . … |
| 4 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |
| 5 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |
| 6 | Let me finish in a very positive note in saying that I 'm as concerned as the speaker to which I reply that that day will be reached and reached soon , please God , when we can sit down together and share fully in the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 7 | A decision problem in which I receives and II receives - , if I plays i and II plays j , is called a two-person zero-sum game ( ZSG — ‘ zero sum ’ because the sum of the receipts of the two players is zero ) . |
| 8 | Hunt 's fine victory at Zandvoort , which I remember as one of his most controlled and patient races , also marked Hunt 's twenty-ninth birthday . |
| 9 | Er I th I think if the honourable member pays attention he will appreciate that the boundaries are the nub of the issue in terms of er electoral systems and the common electoral system to which this country is a signatory in agreeing that that should be where we are er headed , is a principle which I believe that this er commission should have been asked to address , it should have been what was happening er at this time in the history of the European parliament , should have happened long ago but sadly it 's a principle which both Labour and Conservative governments in the past have preferred to ignore frankly for their own electoral benefit . |
| 10 | All my attention focused on the commissioning fee , which I regarded as derisory . |
| 11 | There 's there 's so many though are n't there I mean there 's that Scottish accents which I love but other ones are a bit kind of difficult to understand you know . |
| 12 | She was the spoon that impatiently opened your lips and put artichoke purée between them , the arm that lowered you backwards into the tin bath , the water in which you lay and splashed and did not drown . |
| 13 | To delegate tasks and , along with this , some of your power gives you more time to do other things which you regard as important . |
| 14 | Mr Brown said : ‘ I am demanding that the Chancellor publish the letter circulating from the Treasury which itself demands that civil servants plan for 2.5 per cent and 5 per cent cuts in their budgets . |
| 15 | And indeed , as Daly sees women as having become ‘ mutants ’ or ‘ fembots ’ , so Millett sees them as not having been allowed to participate in fully ‘ human ’ activities ( which she characterises as those that are most remote from the biological contingencies of life ) , and Frye sees them as simply ‘ broken ’ and then ‘ remade ’ in the way that suits their masters . |
| 16 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 17 | With regard to Audrey it is difficult to identify the goals to which she aspires since these are rarely explicitly referred to , and she appears less often . |
| 18 | The headline accompanied the story of the unfortunate Suzanne Lloyd who recounted her ‘ acid times ’ with the new pop/folk singer Donovan , which had included a visit to Jean Luc Godard 's Pierrot le Fou which she labelled as one of ‘ the ‘ acid ’ films that are in vogue now ’ . |
| 19 | Alice Heim was beginning her work on creativity in which she claimed that verbal reasoning tests ignored vital aspects of child potential . |
| 20 | Mrs Proetta , 50 , was the central figure in an ITV documentary in which she claimed that three IRA terrorists there were shot dead in cold blood by the SAS in 1988 . |
| 21 | The next phase involved giving the subject a surprise memory test in which s/he was given a list of 80 words — ; the original plus 40 distractors of a similar type — ; and was asked to tick the boxes corresponding to the words which s/he recognised as those presented in the tachistoscope . |
| 22 | In the final section of Chapter 6 , we construct a simple model of inflation in which we assume that all prices are cost-plus prices . |
| 23 | The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber , in which we remain as long as we do not think … we no sooner get into the second Chamber , which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought , than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere , we see nothing but pleasant wonders , and think of delaying there for ever in delight . |
| 24 | In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified . |
| 25 | As early as 1944 one Foreign Office memorandum ( entitled " The Essentials of an American Policy " ) frankly recommended that Britain should " make use of American powers for purposes which we regard as good " . |
| 26 | As each person dies , he does so in a little skirmish of the platoon that is parallel to , and reflects , one of the four major disastrous battles of the war — Dunkirk , Dieppe , Alamein and Arnhem — which is shown in tinted black-and-white footage , some of which we shot and some of it archive material . |
| 27 | Use of the microcomputer is seen as part of the syllabus , so skill reinforcement and development is assured and , as is well known , the best kind of learning occurs when pupils are doing work which they regard as useful . |
| 28 | God , they have said , is ‘ being ’ or ‘ being itself ’ ( by which they mean that all else has to be ‘ something ’ , whereas God as pure being simply ‘ is ’ ) . |
| 29 | This was a telling comment on Francoism 's concept of " normality " and , particularly , on its view of the intellectual and political capacity of women : men who were not the head of the household in which they lived and all unmarried women were disenfranchized , even if they had reached the age of majority . |
| 30 | To assess directly the differences between situations which were recalled and those which were not recalled each subject 's mean accident estimate and risk rating was calculated separately for situations which they recalled and those they did not . |