Example sentences of "[noun] which we would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early English pop was riddled with homosexuality and that sensibility which we would now call camp — partly this was due to homosexual familiarity with those areas of human activity which were now being exploited , and partly to the early music industry 's seedy beginnings on the fringes of established showbusiness . |
| 2 | I have also sent you a catalogue of Greenpeace merchandise so that you may choose from it , and may I draw special attention to the Greenpeace enamel dove badge which we would particularly like you , as a new supporter , to purchase and wear . |
| 3 | To facilitate the sorting and parcelling of seizures , we had piles of cigarettes , tobacco and spirits spread around the deck and on the quayside which we would never have dared to attempt in any other place . |
| 4 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 5 | We could on this basis begin to question the lives of many people which we would subjectively consider to be less fulfilling than our own . |
| 6 | The causal chain between stimulus and response had a kind of inevitability , an independence from processes which we would normally regard as mental : it by-passed our knowledge of the friend 's personality , history , and basic assumptions about human motivation , the orderliness of conduct , and so forth . |
| 7 | But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example . |
| 8 | In other words , opposing reunification will make it more likely to occur in the form which we would least want ’ . |
| 9 | I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate . |
| 10 | The proscription is , of course , a legal convention which we would normally take for granted , but is , in this context , inconsistent with the SI anti-copyright policy and , in the light of the Lautréamont axiom : ‘ Plagiarism is necessary — progress implies it , ’ which Francis cites on page 19 , is an unintended irony . |
| 11 | Even events which we would never passivize in English because they involve only one participant and therefore can not ‘ logically ’ be passivized are expressed in passive structures in these languages if they are unpleasant , for example ‘ I was died on by my father ’ in Japanese . |