Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the vast preponderant mass of occult lore is finally seen as empty and meaningless , so is the book , in which case we are wasting our time . |
| 2 | I WRITE in response to Judith Raymont ( November 16 ) who wrote of the cartoon Men — A User 's Guide , ‘ It is either insulting to men and should not be endorsed by publication , or it is witty and amusing , in which case we , as women , have no right to complain about equivalent portrayals of female stereotypes . ’ |
| 3 | In which case we might wish that 50% of the footage is shot in IH or whatever ! |
| 4 | It may be that the lovely weather will go on even after the hall is pulled down , in which case we can meet out of doors , but we ca n't expect to go on doing that when autumn and winter comes , can we ? ’ |
| 5 | We should have broken up before but there is every prospect of a late and long hopping in which case we should have difficulty in making the necessary attendances . ’ |
| 6 | The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row . |
| 7 | The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row . |
| 8 | We can afford to bide our time , unless Dortmund show signs of nervousness , in which case we will go at them . ’ |
| 9 | In which case we may predict that this craft activity was on a small scale producing no concentrated evidence . |
| 10 | The character can meet the change head on , in which case we may feel gratified — or sidestep the new knowledge , try to behave as though everything is the same as before . |
| 11 | Unless they get mean about it , in which case we 'll have to scrap with them ! ’ |
| 12 | We are forced to work fast and badly , but we do n't know whether there is any point to it because it may all be swept away in a month ; on the other hand , nothing at all may happen , in which case we will have done it badly to no purpose . |
| 13 | However , some parcels can not be delivered , for example because the recipient has gone away or refuses to accept the parcel , in which case we will try to return it to you . |
| 14 | We may terminate the loop either by means of an " increment ( decrement ) count and jump on zero " instruction , or when the contents of the index register reach a certain value ( in which case we need an instruction to compare an index register with a store location ) . |
| 15 | But nowadays not everyone is so ready to accept such divisions as unalterable , and if one holds the not unreasonable belief that the existence of wealth is one cause of poverty , then clearly we are faced with a more difficult choice : either to tolerate the existence of both wealth and poverty , or to aim at abolishing poverty , in which case we have no option but to attack wealth . |
| 16 | Either we can know the position exactly , in which case we sacrifice all specification of momentum , or we make the converse choice . |
| 17 | Or we might want to know how cold it is to the nearest °C , in which case we have no choice . |
| 18 | Yeah , I think people feel uneasy about the whole subject of surrogacy because we know that sometimes rich women have paid poor women er , for surrogacy or adoption and I think we want that choice to be a free one , in which case we have to raise their material circumstances so no one is forced to sell their baby , just as no one should be forced to sell , you know , their blood ! |
| 19 | Ah suspect not , in which case we 'll have to measure them up and have them flown out . |
| 20 | in which case we can disregard because it |
| 21 | In which case we may be doser to him than we think . ’ |
| 22 | Well think about it I mean there might be one , in which case we have to do a little bit er dancing around |
| 23 | ‘ So he was , in which case we must absolve you from all blame . |
| 24 | In which case we might move into the shade and partake of some wine ? ’ |
| 25 | In many languages , distinctions of fine gradation between the relative ranks of speaker and addressee are systematically encoded throughout , for example , the morphological system , in which case we talk of honorifics ; but such distinctions are also regularly encoded in choices between pronouns , summons forms or vocatives , and titles of address in familiar languages . |
| 26 | In contrast , in many languages ( notably the S. E. Asian languages , including Korean , Japanese and Javanese ) it is possible to say some sentence glossing as " The soup is hot " and by the choice of a linguistic alternate ( e.g. for " soup " ) encode respect to the addressee without referring to him , in which case we have an addressee honorific system . |
| 27 | There are , for example , forms reserved for certain speakers , in which case we may talk ( after Fillmore , 1975 ) of authorized speakers . |
| 28 | In other cases the hearer is rewarded by an array of weak implicatures , in which case we may say the reformulation achieves poetic effects comparable with those achieved through repetition . |
| 29 | We can either do nothing erm and just wait and see whether he com comes back to you and says I want access contact to er to Ricky , erm in which case we can then do something about it . |
| 30 | and I do n't know if we want to agree to that straightaway in which case we get on to the next item . |