Example sentences of "which [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | W is ‘ We wo n't worry about all those complicated scenarios , which for all we know may never happen at all ’ . |
| 2 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 3 | Apart from portraits , arguably the two greatest pictures that Queen Victoria purchased were Frith 's ‘ Ramsgate Sands ’ , an endearing masterpiece which for all I know may still hang in the waiting room at Buckingham Palace for the amusement of visitors , and Leighton 's ‘ Cimabue 's Madonna carried in procession ’ , acquired from the Royal Academy in 1855 and now on permanent loan to the National Gallery . |
| 4 | Which for all I knew might have no end |
| 5 | The men 's fear of change took the form of vociferously defending the status quo in which after all they had everything to lose . |
| 6 | In his ‘ Closing statement ’ Jakobson does not explicitly reject this view , which after all he played an important part in developing ; but speaking as a linguist he insists that the difference between poetic and non-poetic texts can be explained in purely linguistic terms . |
| 7 | The ASWs were asked to indicate which of these each individual suffered and which of these they considered to be severe . |
| 8 | Which of these you should do involves the basic decision whether you should copy the original words , or restate the content in your own words . |
| 9 | On the one hand you could give it your best shot on the decriminalisation of homosexuality , on the liberalising of legislation in relation to condoms and on the introduction of divorce legislation — all of which in private you would acknowledge as being desirable if not essential . |
| 10 | THE PENCIL OF NATURE was Talbot 's attempt to acquaint the general public with the characteristics and scope of his process , which in 1841 he had decisively improved [ and called the Calotype ) . |
| 11 | Erm well in in the context of what I did say yesterday it 'll come as no great surprise to anyone that like Ryedale we also accept the North Yorkshire County County figures , erm which in short we we find are based on reasonable assumptions and and and an appropriate methodology , compared to some of the more extreme interpretations and projections that have that have been put forward , if I can illustrate that point by reference to er potential building rates , that the highest figure that 's been suggested is the one put forward by Mr Grigson , of Barton Willmore , I 'm talking for the moment about Greater York generally , and I 'll come onto the Selby aspect in a minute . |
| 12 | The main influences seen by Vauxcelles in the work of the younger painters were those of Gauguin , Derain and Matisse , to which in 1910 he adds the influence of Picasso . |
| 13 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 14 | which at seventeen I found undetectable |
| 15 | The decisive decade for exploration had been the 1490s : Columbus reached the West Indies ( which at first he took to be a part of Japan ) , Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean , and Pope Alexander VI recognized that Spain 's new interest in expansion would clash with Portugal 's existing claims unless they were defined quickly . |
| 16 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 17 | A few yards up the hill , on my left , was a turning which at first I thought was just the entrance to a field . |
| 18 | Hardly a month goes by without one newspaper or another announcing the development of a computer ‘ with which at last you can converse in ordinary English , not a programming language ’ . |
| 19 | This was an appointment which I had repeatedly put off but which at last I was being forced to keep . |
| 20 | For this purpose he built up at his own expense a large collection of apparatus , which by 1723 he valued at £400 . |