Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last characteristic of achievement is one which either one likes , or which one finds extremely difficult to endure . |
| 2 | Research suggests that members of the public are not influenced in their moral attitudes towards offences by the punishments which are imposed ( or which they believe are imposed ) . |
| 3 | Difficulties arise when individuals are asked to develop , qualities which they do not possess or which they have previously dismissed as irrelevant or not worth possessing . |
| 4 | If anyone older than you , even someone you know , tries to kiss or touch you in a way you do n't like or that confuses you , or which they say is supposed to be a secret , say NO in a very loud voice . |
| 5 | The Europe in which we are to live will in part be shaped by the ideas , negotiations , cultural translations and mis-translations which people such as MEPs bring to Strasbourg and Brussels , or which they learn there , and in which they engage . |
| 6 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 7 | In taking into account the user of the vehicle which they actually found or which they inferred from the practice of the previous owner it seems to me they did not err . |
| 8 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 9 | Erm and I think that it is a very useful exercise to discover which things you know fall below that break even point and which things are therefore if you like internally subsidized or which we do for one reason or another . |
| 10 | Often I suggest to children that the piece of paper could be used for learning about the subject they 've decided on , or which I 've given them , in any way they feel is right . |
| 11 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
| 12 | This will be based on information which has been made available to me or which I have requested in accordance with clause [ specify ] of the Agreement . |
| 13 | There is no point at all in starting to do something you hate or which you find boring because you will never stick to it . |
| 14 | Skaller smiled bitterly : surely he sentenced , had to sentence those who were dragged before him because of this love , for the sake of this same love with which he himself once loved — of which he knew nothing more today — which he had forgotten — or which he thought of yet only as an aberration of his youth . |
| 15 | A reasonable definition to cover wilful act would be ‘ any act , omission or behaviour which the insured customer knew , or should have known , was contrary to the terms and conditions of his employment or which he knew , or should have known , would lead to the termination of his employment ’ . |
| 16 | For example , the chief executive or clerk would be at fault in allowing a committee to do something which is not authorised by law or which he knows to be illegal . |
| 17 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 18 | Finally , the 1987 Act provides that where a minor has acquired property under a contract which is unenforceable against him , or which he has repudiated on the grounds of minority , he may be required by the court , when it thinks it ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so , to return the property , or else property representing that which he has acquired ( without prejudice to any other remedy available to the plaintiff ) . |
| 19 | Then at about 4:58 I thought maybe I 'll just listen to the match report , there may have been a fight back … & what ya know … 3–3 ! ! |
| 20 | ‘ All done in a hell of a hurry , with yer grandfather , Eduardo Gómez , obtainin' a special dispensation , or whatever ye call it , from the Pope . ’ |
| 21 | The capped level , or whatever we like to call it , is the criteria that has been established by the Secretary of State , and he has said it is five per cent beyond the standard spending level and he says if Councils spend beyond that then he is liable to introduce his capping legislation and |
| 22 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 23 | or whatever we do n't really have the time , people just say , oh it 's charts . |
| 24 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 25 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 26 | I have to face the Matter as well , you know , and in this case that means that fucking doll or manikin or whatever we call it . |
| 27 | You 've all been and this is really addressed to H O H members , not to erm delegates group or whatever we call ourselves erm everyone 's been to a erm job evaluation H O H A discussion , right ? |
| 28 | If the support for farmers — £2 billion or £3 billion a year or whatever we need — went to finance green premiums , to help the environment or to help less intensive agriculture , the consumer would support it . |
| 29 | Now I could not hear what was going on and I was quite sure nobody could hit a ball , or whatever they use in baseball , away out where I was standing . |
| 30 | she said well it happened to me , it 's the chemicals on the skin of the fruit and the tomatoes , that 's what brought your spots on and after a couple of days or whatever they went away . |