Example sentences of "which is [adv] [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male has a more striking appearance with a richer pink and lavender body coloration , superbly ornamented with violet edging to each fin , except the tail which is distinctly tipped in this colour . |
| 2 | Two stages are involved , the reason for which is neatly summarized in this quotation from C.S. Lewis : The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is — what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used . |
| 3 | In the few cases where the church plan diverges from the conventional arrangement by including only a single side aisle rather than the normal two , this volume , rather than the nave space , can be used to accommodate the dwellings access corridor , although it is noteworthy that in the conversion of St James 's Church , Farnham , Surrey , which is also described in this chapter , the optimum cross-sectional treatment of such an asymmetrical plan placed the longitudinal access corridor in the former nave space , the aisle projection being used to accommodate living-rooms . |
| 4 | You will be entertained for hours wether using the highly colourful VGA version or the MONO version which is also included on this disk . |
| 5 | And the quantitative distinction which is well illustrated by this photograph , which is completely typical let me get the one , hang on right , this is a photograph of a hamster ovum with a hamster sperm just fertilizing it there and you can see that the hamster sperm is a lot smaller than the hamster ovum , and this is totally typical , it 's smaller by many orders of magnitude . |
| 6 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 7 | Most of the roses are from cuttings and Lavatera olbia ‘ Rosea ’ is another favourite which is regularly propagated in this way . |
| 8 | It is the sense of an England bloodily engaged in bashing out a national destiny from the tribal chaos which is best conveyed in this rich , poetic panorama . |
| 9 | First , there is one argument which is commonly used in this context , but which seems to me mistaken . |
| 10 | A question which is often asked in this connection is " At which end do we start , the aesthetic or the linguistic ? " |
| 11 | Mary was a stickler for accuracy , which is really needed in this job ; you also need a lot of patience to tackle it effectively . |
| 12 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 13 | I find found that absolutely incredible and I thought it was bizarre to say the least , the procedure we had to go through the other er evening erm with two hours of acrimonious debate er a break while you consulted er the officers before we got to some er sensible way forward which is now incorporated in this amendment er to spend a hundred thousand pounds on actually trying to trace . |
| 14 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |