Example sentences of "which [indef pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen things which no-one should ever see . |
| 2 | All the great religions affirm that at the heart of religion lies Mystery which nothing can adequately express : all religious forms of expression have the character of pointing towards this Mystery , and not describing it . |
| 3 | However , one inexpensive precaution is to apply self-adhesive warning stickers on the glass at eye level : for example , on a patio door which someone might inadvertently walk or run into while their attention is fixed on the garden beyond . |
| 4 | These are the books which it is nice to have which cost a lot to look after , but which nobody can ever look at because they are so valuable . |
| 5 | There was a company developing games ; another developing an instrument called the Synthaxe ; for reasons which nobody could quite discern , there was a company dedicated to the servicing of air-conditioners , and another , called Top Nosh , selling food around industrial estates . |
| 6 | That there have occurred changes which may be described as permissive is not doubted : ‘ We have experienced a change in standards of conduct which one might also describe by reversing Caxton 's quotation . |
| 7 | At all events SLA research , though of considerable theoretical and descriptive interest , has yielded as yet nothing definitive upon which one might confidently model an approach to formal teaching which replicates the process of natural learning ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 8 | Noël Coward 's Cavalcade , for example , though Jack could see its merit , struck him as fundamentally cheap , ‘ a mere brutal assault on one 's emotions , using material which one ca n't help feeling intensely . |
| 9 | Another example wh which one ca n't help feeling one often meets in people in universities is rationalization . |
| 10 | Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned . |
| 11 | But one can have authority to do that which one ought not to do . |
| 12 | It is highly unlikely that research will do more than elaborate and refine matters upon which one may reasonably speculate from experience , from theories of behaviour generally , and from knowledge available from other areas , such as child abuse , or particular to ageing . |
| 13 | On the other hand , as Acheson said in his memoirs , there are limits on the extent to which one may successfully coerce an ally . |
| 14 | Under this interpretation , actions which originate from ‘ inside ’ the self are those which are seen as in accordance with conscious desires or intentions , and those which originate from ‘ outside ’ the self are those which one would not do if one were not coerced . |
| 15 | There was no argument about that , for he had played stunningly well without in any way murdering the par fives , which one would normally expect to have been his strength . |
| 16 | Bipeds evolved larger digestive tracts which one would normally expect to find in a longer , heavier stomach cavity in front of the hips , which would present anatomical problems in balancing . |
| 17 | The question of constructive knowledge is dealt with in part by asking whether or not , in the circumstances of the particular case , the ticket was the sort of document on which one would reasonably expect to find legally binding terms and conditions , and in part by asking whether or not the party issuing the ticket made reasonable attempts to bring the existence of the conditions to the notice of the other party . |
| 18 | ‘ In my opinion euthanasia is a crime against humanity which one should never consent or cooperate with . |
| 19 | By pre-adjunct he means adjectives in prenominal attributive position ; by characterisation he means something like inherent or permanent ( to which one should perhaps add some cautious and flexible condition such as " in the circumstances " ) . |
| 20 | It then became conceivable that time might simply not be defined before a certain point ; as one goes back in time , one might come to an insurmountable barrier , a singularity , beyond which one could not go . |
| 21 | Disagreements in the church about the point at which one could not compromise left a legacy of schisms in the Nile valley and in North Africa , where the rancour of the Donatist schism persisted until the Muslim invasions swept them away four centuries later . |
| 22 | Slowly people began to realise it was not a miracle after all , but the reward for an enormous amount of hard work , planning and discipline which ensured they were the fittest and best-prepared England team ever , ; a very professional approach which saw them practising endlessly ; high-class line and length bowling , backed up by excellent fielding , which had the West Indian batsmen constantly under pressure ; sound batsmanship to build on the bowlers ' successes ; and a crackling team spirit fostered by Gooch which one could not remember seeing in an England team in years . |
| 23 | Of what value after all is a power which one could never use , or at any rate did not know how to use ? |
| 24 | A disconcerting person , Emily Dickinson , but her shrinking from the sexual side of life was something with which one could entirely sympathize . |
| 25 | If one wanted to meet someone in London who is in fact elsewhere and had to spend a morning travelling which one could pleasantly have spent in bed , then the desire to travel can be faulted . |
| 26 | I certainly recall visiting residential and nursing homes in my constituency of which one could genuinely say that one would be pleased to be a member of that community . |
| 27 | In fact the mentality of the hearing is set to define dumbness as belonging to any vocal barrage of which one can not make heads or tails . |
| 28 | I suppose that there are very few places on Moila from which one can not see the sea . |
| 29 | But there are many matters about which one can not write … |
| 30 | There must be another language , dealing with the structure of the first and possessing a new structure about which one can not say anything except in a third language — and so forth . |