Example sentences of "[noun] which we use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seen in historical and anthropological perspective , perhaps the most interesting aspect of the contemporary preoccupation with childrearing is that today we are self-consciously concerned with the possible psychological consequences of the methods which we use in bringing up our children . |
| 2 | Advocates of this kind of approach take everyday experiences ( like cooking ) and use them to clarify those words which we use to explain mathematics and to vivify the abstractions which are central to the subject . |
| 3 | The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability . |
| 4 | It is for this reason that many of the extracts from the data which we use in the volume are accounts and nearverbatim records of spontaneous conversations in natural situations , for we thought it unreliable to ‘ interview ’ respondents formally ( van Maanen 1982 : 140 argues that most ethnographic data are conversation-based ) . |
| 5 | Of course this does not mean that we should not be careful about the metaphors which we use . |
| 6 | And Edwyn 's got a very old Jazzmaster which we used . |
| 7 | The distinction between grammar and lexis which we used in the last chapter cuts across this distinction between levels . |
| 8 | " WIRS gives information on labour costs as a proportion of total costs which we used as a proxy for information on capital intensity , but our analysis gave no indication that the predicted relationship did obtain . |
| 9 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
| 10 | The public comes into contact with our information resources at most points , with the exception of some of the more specialised sources which we use internally , such as computer data , administration files , and communications . |
| 11 | The natural celluloses which we use include a very large number of timbers , bamboo , cane , flax , hemp , cotton , ramie , sisal , esparto and so on . |
| 12 | Many of the rhymes and stories which we use with young children include the use of number names . |
| 13 | On the way into land we could n't find the mendlsham mast which we use as a land mark to find the airfield . |
| 14 | They have not been they are not the area covered by the er York greenbelt because as Mr said , er er greenbelt boundaries follow natural features rather than administrative boundaries which we use for the for the Greater York study . |
| 15 | The resulting argument is typical of that current in post-structuralism ( e.g. Sturrock ed. 1979 ) ; that is , we think we create objects in history which we use to communicate/signify/represent/constitute , but actually today there is simply a world of objects in terms of which our notions of self and society are created . |
| 16 | Although it did n't sell very well at the time it is significant because it was the first to be published in English using the naming system which we use today . ’ |
| 17 | The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here . |
| 18 | It is not necessary to purge the political and academic language which we use to think about the inner city , only to be aware of its contingent value . |
| 19 | In linguistics , especially in the English-speaking world between the 1930s and 1960s , there have been several schools of thought which believe that context — this knowledge of the world outside language which we use to interpret it — should be ruled out of language analysis as far as possible . |
| 20 | And so we took a piece off and had it analysed , we have a little laboratory which we use to analyse things like that , and it turned out to be what we expected , the most common colour of medieval furniture was red . |
| 21 | Further — and this was where Kant moved decidedly beyond Hume and everyone else before him — even the most fundamental categories which we use to supply the framework of our knowledge of the world , those of space and time , must be set in this light . |
| 22 | The other predicates which we use to describe the game are empty(x) which signifies that the square x is empty ; filled ( x , C ) where x is a square and C is a player ; to-move(C) which is true if it is C's turn to play ; win(C) which is short for the formula |