Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This method gives you something like a template for a graph , which you can use time and time again . |
| 32 | If you succeed in finding another job , or already have one lined up at the time that you go , it may not be worth suing your employer because the losses for which you could claim reimbursement may be minimal . |
| 33 | The first voice made a request for permission to use the campsite area for a group of boys during the next school break , and after stopping the machine she made a note of the name and address to which she would send confirmation . |
| 34 | Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study . |
| 35 | Over it , for dramatic effect , an old school blazer into which she would sew shoulder pads to make the silhouette wider . |
| 36 | He was playing with her like a predator , judging the point at which she would lose control . |
| 37 | Her scheme envisaged a palatial brothel for women only — a sanctuary ‘ to which any lady of rank and fortune may subscribe , and to which she may repair incog ; the married to commit what the world calls adultery , and the single to commit what at the tabernacle is called fornication , or in a gentler phrase , to obey the dictates of all-powerful Nature , by offering up a cheerful sacrifice to the God Priapus , the most ancient of deities . ’ |
| 38 | At the same time , in contrast to earlier eras , the housework is more likely to be carried out in isolation , without reference to others or without any external standard of comparison from which she might derive status or recognition for her particular skills as a cook or a housewife . |
| 39 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 40 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 41 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 42 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 43 | If the left hand end of the line is fixed by the co-ordinates of Bishops Cannings church , then the angle it makes with its horizontal base assumes a value , which we shall call angle ‘ a ’ . |
| 44 | Sentence 5 also illustrates another aspect of modulation , which we shall call linkage of traits . |
| 45 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 46 | And this is at a time , of course , when we have other doors opening to us , which we shall need match funding , objective rural Dent , and er , er for the for the for the budget to be , it to have been cut in this way , is is is is very serious . |
| 47 | This period — which we shall have occasion to discuss in more detail later — was known , for those living in it , as ‘ the Last Times ’ , or ‘ the Last Days ’ . |
| 48 | The basic rules of procedure for any such exercise , short or prolonged , remain very much the same : a six-week programme may well include a series of short ten-minute sequences as well as other episodes and exercises and in devising materials for either one would take into account the basic procedures of materials production which we shall have occasion to examine in a later chapter . |
| 49 | These include the famous letter " Solite " to the Eastern Emperor Alexis of Constantinople and a letter of 1200 addressed to the archbishop of Canterbury and concerning Bishop Mauger , which we shall have occasion to discuss later . |
| 50 | An important collection of exempla which we shall have reason to refer to on several occasions is the Disciplina Clericalis , an early twelfth-century collection of instructive tales put together by Petrus Alphonsus , a converted Jew , for his son . |
| 51 | One issue to which we would draw attention at this stage is the effect of injecting a specific sum of money from another source on the deployment of the school 's capitation and the way it is already supplemented by , for example , the PTA . |
| 52 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |
| 53 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 54 | It seems that there is a high degree of creativity in the lexicon which we must take account of . |
| 55 | ‘ And then the Great Vale , with the Great River , which we must follow north to Talisker . ’ |
| 56 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 57 | The best way — indeed , the only way — in which we can make progress in that regard is by affecting attitudes and the culture that exists within companies . |
| 58 | The value of the ethological study of apes , monkeys and baboons is what it tells us about apes , monkeys and baboons ; only in very special circumstances , and in a very tentative way , should it be seen as a metaphorical alternative by means of which we can study man himself , as in a mirror . |
| 59 | There are a number of different ways in which we can measure wealth . |
| 60 | Then one way in which we can accommodate context-relativity is to say that the proposition expressed by a sentence in a context is a function from possible worlds and that context to truth values . |