Example sentences of "a [noun sg] which [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , there 's a description which you can choose to listen to or not |
| 2 | Er you 'll find that we do have actually have a calculator which we can send out with a retirement pack and that actually gives you an aide-memoire to actually remind you about the things that you might forget erm with regard to erm things like er holidays er erm say , medical expenses , er fuel expenses , erm club fees , T V licence , all those things . |
| 3 | One reason for this is that many people have a fear which they can not conceal of anything or anybody who reminds them of death ; knowing that contact with a grieving widow will exacerbate these fears they tend , after expressing their sympathy by word or letter , and sending flowers to the funeral , to withdraw to a safe distance ‘ to give her time to get over it ’ just when she needs them most . |
| 4 | It is on the borderline between a true signal , indicating the nature of the coming activity and establishing specific relations within which it is intended to occur , and that type of signal which is not preparatory or externally indicative but is integrated within the form of a work : a type which we can distinguish as conventions , and which is so fundamentally important that it will be separately discussed , below . |
| 5 | The concepts mental lexicon , lexical entry and lexical access provide a vocabulary which we can use when discussing how words are perceived and produced . |
| 6 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 7 | So that we have got a disk which we can put into the machines down there in the computer room , a whole lot of transcriptions that they 've already made . |
| 8 | Now that 's good because it does , it gives us a record which we can refer |
| 9 | When it is apparent that external circumstances have changed , you have to decide whether to cry chicken and run too early , or continue to reinforce and spend time , money and ever increasing numbers of your best people , who are invariably sucked into the most difficult areas of the battle , trying to fight a war which you can not win . |
| 10 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 11 | The sceptic insists that there is a difference between the two hypotheses , but that it is evidence-transcendent , i.e. that it is a difference which you can not tell ; and he concludes from this that you do n't know which situation you are really in . |
| 12 | It is a truth which I can never now forget as I go about a world in which human beings apparently have themselves under control . |
| 13 | We have fixed up a room which you can call your own . ’ |
| 14 | The sooner that idea is introduced universally , the sooner individuals will have the right to a credit which they can cash in for training and further education , and we should be talking of both — of further education colleges and training schemes . |
| 15 | ‘ Practical consciousness ’ refers to the knowledge of the social world incorporated into actors , but a knowledge which they can not directly express through speech . |
| 16 | If , faute-de-mieux , it has to be accepted , notice should immediately be given to the company , making it clear that this is a notice which it can not disregard in relation to any lien it may claim , and an attempt should be made to obtain information about the amount , if any , then owed to the company . |
| 17 | The question whether a man who considers himself wronged has a claim which he can make good will depend on the answer to the question : Is there a writ to meet his case or , if there is not one , can one be framed which the King 's Courts will hold good ? |
| 18 | And , if you find yourself short of capital at any time , you may be able to take a loan which you can repay using the tax-free cash sum available at retirement . |
| 19 | Erm but he did say that he 's actually writing a leaflet which they can run to seven or eight pages . |
| 20 | My words are a guide which you can follow … follow … , |
| 21 | I was about to call a doctor and then , suddenly , I had a feeling which I can only describe as — excuse me — ecstatic . |
| 22 | Again we have here a variable which we can use to regulate individual needs if required , twelve shakes giving a slightly sharper daily rise in potency than eight . |
| 23 | Every evening he listens to one of the masters — Schubert , Schumann , Beethoven , Brahms — a habit which he can not miss without physical anguish . |
| 24 | Intimacy is a living experience , rather than a state which we can arrive at . |
| 25 | ‘ We no longer live in a society which we can claim is founded on Christian belief , ’ said one , favouring instead an education which teaches children to accept people have fundamentally different beliefs which are neither wrong nor right . |
| 26 | In the novel he stays polarized , but without bulk and in a tragic sense without force ; he goes through the motions ( ‘ the habits of a decent man ’ and so forth ) while his great-sinner infamies are unloaded upon a past which he can not even renounce . |
| 27 | Whelks have developed a radula on a stalk which they can extend beyond the shell and use to bore into the shells of other molluscs . |
| 28 | Nearly all those keyword-type online catalogues which use an implicit Boolean AND will simply report a failed search ( it might display " No entries " or " Nothing found " ) if the search contains a word which they can not find . |
| 29 | Any small hope held out to her by circumstances , or by her lover , is as a wisp which she can spin and twist into a thread , and if she gathers enough of these her feelings tell her that she will be able to bind them into a strong rope . |
| 30 | As to the precise dates , that is not a matter which I can immediately remember . |