Example sentences of "thing which [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we make further savings in the course of the next financial year the benefit will be felt by the citizens of Cambridge and it 's no good promising them things which we ca n't deliver . |
| 2 | The attitudes expressed by value statements are all ways of favouring or disfavouring things which we would like to see shared . |
| 3 | Text for today : We shall undo those things which we ought not to have done , and there is health in us . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | In sense-perception we have a conscious awareness of material things around us , such as trees and stones , things which we can later represent to ourselves in memory and imagination . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ That the Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 , the provisions of which are summarised in the Appendix to the letter to members of the Company dated 16th June 1993 , to be constituted by the Rules produced in draft to this meeting and for the purposes of identification initialled by the Chairman hereof , be and is hereby approved and the Directors be and are hereby authorised to do all acts and things which they may consider necessary or expedient for implementing and giving effect to the same including making such amendments to the Rules as may be necessary to gain the approval of the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 11 | I could n't possibly compete in those stakes , so I racked my brain to think of small things which they might like . |
| 12 | You can appeal to them never to say or do things which they would be ashamed for you to know . ’ |
| 13 | There will be times during a good investigative session when they need to draw several quick diagrams perhaps , or they may suddenly see connections between things which they can not yet explain but need to indicate immediately . |
| 14 | Other things which you may consume more when the summer comes , and which are common allergens , are cola drinks , shell fish , pineapples , cherries and plums . |
| 15 | Erm y'know I mean because people have a whole variety of reactions to these things which you may want to investigate more specifically . |
| 16 | So there 's a number of different dimensions to these things which you may want to attack . |
| 17 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 18 | if you want to say put the name of an accent down You wanted to put say Birmingham and then say , How would you rate people who have a strong accent from this place on a scale of one to five for friendless , honesty the things which you could |
| 19 | They were alright , big glass things which you could surround and pack in tea chests with bits and pieces and equipment in . |
| 20 | The sort of things which you will need to decide upon are noted below ; it is not essential that you do any of these things , because even if you do not give written arguments , or you do not attend the hearing or send a representative , the Committee will consider the information given to them by the Council and then reach a decision on your case . |
| 21 | Although you will not be able to take your puppy out at once , there are many things which you can do to form a close bond between you and your new pet . |
| 22 | And , you know , the sort of things which you can remember , which I can remember , some of the glorious ones , one when I was working up in Lancashire , about this time of year when the , the new May Day Bank Holiday was announced in about nineteen seventy-two or three or something and through five editions of the Lancashire Evening Post was a headline which said ‘ New Pubic Holiday ’ . |
| 23 | Er some of the things which I wo n't go into in detail but a short list of some of the things which do differ among languages are interjections , particles , personal pronouns , titles , kinship terms , er nouns , verbs , noun multipliers , pronunciation . |
| 24 | in normal everyday things which I would n't otherwise have been aware of , and he 's been someone to have arguments with about science , and it 's nice to have someone who understands what you 're going on about . |
| 25 | But he was a very very kindly man and er he introduced erm me to a lot of things which I would n't otherwise have erm been able to do , or at least I would n't have g had the erm , been invited to do . |
| 26 | ‘ How ? ’ he repeated , but , even though she thought that he suddenly seemed a little on edge , and although he appeared to hesitate — as if , most oddly , he was a little unsure , he then looked straight into her eyes and stated , ‘ There have been countless instances when , because of you , I 've found myself doing things which I would n't have believed . |
| 27 | Reading coach Colin Lee added : ‘ Lambert does things which I used to see on tapes of George Best . |
| 28 | I have often learned through dreams — frequently just floating snippets , as it were — things which I could not have learnt through my normal perceptions . |
| 29 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 30 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |