Example sentences of "which we [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large vibration creates a strong wave which we hear as a loud noise , while a small vibration produces a faint sound . |
| 2 | A slow vibration creates low-frequency waves which we hear as a low-pitched noise , while a fast vibration produces a high-pitched noise . |
| 3 | While the soft-voiced viol consort was peculiarly suitable for domestic music , there was a standard mixed consort for public occasions , of which we hear in an account ( 1591 ) of an entertainment for Elizabeth I at Elvetham in Hampshire : an ‘ exquisite consort , wherein was the lute , bandora , base-viol , citterne , treble-violl , and flute ’ . |
| 4 | C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ . |
| 5 | This is a case in which we distinguish between a person 's body as it appears to that person , and as it appears to others . |
| 6 | There are various contexts in which we speak of a person or institution being an authority . |
| 7 | On the way into land we could n't find the mendlsham mast which we use as a land mark to find the airfield . |
| 8 | Then , just over two years later , John announced at the AGM ( which we use as an opportunity to set spiritual and practical goals for the year to come ) that he felt the time had come for church number three . |
| 9 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 10 | Again we have not found significant polymorphism in this pattern which we take as a male specific pattern for the purposes of parasite sex determination in the laboratory . |
| 11 | Right you know if you 've got any questions now er this is the stage at which we agree on a date for you to start . |
| 12 | This is called " sensitive dependence on initial conditions " , a phenomenon which persists even when the strange invariant set becomes attracting ( see below ) and which gives the typical " chaotic " , " turbulent " or " pseudo-random " behaviour which we associate with a " strange attractor " . |
| 13 | It is a journey in time , which we begin with an experience which completely absorbs our attention but which , at a certain psychological point , demands change . |
| 14 | Copse Corner , copse er , is , is a name which we give to a small wood , a small group of trees is a copse , in India that can be called a shola , S H O L A |
| 15 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 16 | Thus Mackie is what he calls a ‘ moral sceptic ’ , though he is in favour of continuing to live in the light of moral values and obligations which we acknowledge as a human invention or construction serving widely shared human purposes . |
| 17 | We could not avoid , we felt , erm a small part of the fixed cost to the primary schools being cut , but that was offset by a provision for additional staffing in the primary sector , which we identify as an important item . |
| 18 | Our concerns arise in relation to the new settlement of fourteen hundred households which we see as a quite different animal to the dispersed development proposed in Harrogate , Craven and so on . |
| 19 | So I I just thinks it 's a , it 's a feature of the rapid development of the environmental sector , that , for , as I say , for quite understandable reasons , some of those links , and networks , have n't been fully established , and our project which we see as a , as a short term one , essentially a three year bit of work , is going to address that , and it 's been widely supported by er , a number of environmental groups . |
| 20 | As well as being a very useful skill in itself , Writing allows us to set pupils regular homework , which we see as a valuable extension of learning time , and as essential training in self-discipline for later life . |
| 21 | We are already enjoying eternal life , and physical death will merely mean the passing from life , in which we see through a glass darkly , to life when we shall see and know as we are known . |
| 22 | The advantage of our body clock is that it improves the way in which we fit into a rhythmic environment ( this was considered in more detail in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 23 | We refuse to accept the human and inevitable tragedy of aging , even in the case of contemporary art , which we condemn to an unwanted permanence , despite its attempt to go the way of all flesh . |
| 24 | The next definition , which we formulate from a desire to get at the fundamental building blocks as far as multiplication in Z is concerned , is intentionally unconventional , introducing , as it does , a familiar concept in an unfamiliar way . |