Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 It is unfair to Moniz because he probably would have developed the technique of prefrontal leucotomy anyway and it is unfair on Jacobsen because the substance of Jacobsen 's work was that frontal lobe removal produced a severe cognitive deficit which no-one would wish on another person .
2 I had seen things which no-one should ever see .
3 It was like in films when people have a heart attack — they mumble something which seems very important to them but which no-one can understand .
4 Added together , market forces generate an overall result which no-one can predict .
5 But , Angel , it was to set you free , and to avoid a divorce , which everyone would talk about .
6 This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ?
7 They are the principle of equal liberty , assuring everyone equal measure of an enumerated list of basic liberties ( freedom of expression , religion , etc. ) and the difference principle according to which everyone should enjoy equal allocation of the other primary goods ( i.e. those desirable whatever one 's conception of the good may be , e.g. wealth , income , opportunities , status ) except in so far as deviation from strict equality would improve the prospects of the worst-off group in society .
8 Before the days of portable recording machines which everyone could carry with them , record companies had to use great imagination to fill their catalogues with new and interesting material .
9 Its composer , the Argentinian Alejandro Mayol , sought to express the Christian faith in a language which everyone could understand — at all levels of society .
10 Does my right hon. Friend agree that although business sponsorship of the arts is extremely important and welcome , it would be just as beneficial for the arts , particularly local theatres such as the Civic theatre in Chelmsford , if we had a national lottery to which everyone could contribute to help to raise funds for the arts ?
11 Since subscriptions for membership have not been increased this year , one way in which everyone could help would be to add a donation — no matter how small — when sending in their subscription fee .
12 Am I just once again to write , as I did in 1916 , a book of amiable daydreams , which everyone will ignore ?
13 The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words .
14 Rather than waste much time searching for a single , unambiguous statement specifying multimedia on which everyone will agree , we will aim instead for a working understanding of the term .
15 They all refer to obvious approaches to citizenship education to which everyone can subscribe : topics like institutional knowledge and practical voluntary activity .
16 What is at stake is not the creation of a private zone in a public place , but the restoration of a local facility which everyone can enjoy .
17 The Profitboss develops an organization in which entrepreneurial spirit is encouraged not stilled in which everyone can develop an " entrepreneurial eye " .
18 We need a variety of materials in a wide range of formats utilizing therefore a number of different types of equipment ; because it will never make sense to have maximum collections in every classroom , we are likely to value a central pool from which everyone can draw , and the ability to inspect , copy and borrow materials from other schools and central LEA collections .
19 ’ One way of drawing attention to a firm , or a brand , in general terms is to develop a symbol , or logo , by which everyone can recognise it .
20 In short , a stable and caring society in which everyone can live in reasonable comfort and security and to which everyone contributes according to their means .
21 A principle of continuity which is ‘ inscribed ’ in such a way that it can only be established by breaking into it , but which nothing can interrupt or change !
22 For Rolle the first stage , " insuperable " involves a love of God which nothing can shake : He uses the same degrees translated as " vnouercomyn " " indepartyd " and " singuler " ( 11.123 – 4.26,32,5 ) in Emendatio Vitae and it illuminates his thinking in The Form .
23 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 .
24 Since Lewis was to go on to become a faithful and devoted Christian , he writes rather as if the ‘ conversion ’ were a fait accompli , after which nothing could be the same .
25 One of them , Neil , could — like his father — turn his hand to anything , and also had the same sense of humour , which nothing could quench .
26 Daniel Defoe describes the Fens shrouded in fog , through which nothing could be seen ‘ but now and then the lanthorn or cupola of Ely Minster ’ .
27 It cast a shadow from which nothing could escape .
28 They disparage themselves for doubting and in the same breath defend their doubt like a treasured possession which nothing could persuade them to give up .
29 Servant 's hands , which nothing could disguise .
30 The danger of over-embalming is not there because these fluids are designed to be mixed , not like old fashioned fluids with which nothing could be mixed except some Fairy Liquid for lanolin content .
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