Example sentences of "which people have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large party , in and out of which people had evidently flowed like water circulating in a swimming pool . |
| 2 | What Peano had suggested was that it might be possible , not to take the simple ideas with which people had hitherto operated in mathematics as ultimate , but to derive them from something simpler still . |
| 3 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 4 | It is the stuff in the video shop , to which people have consciously turned in preference to what is broadcast . |
| 5 | In my studies of those which people have already claimed , I have concluded that there are certain landscapes which are more fruitful for finding zodiacs . |
| 6 | In other words it would mean that battles could be won which people have previously thought could not even be fought . |
| 7 | Lessening the attractiveness of these benefits , for which people have directly paid contributions , in the hope of boosting the provision of private welfare , for which people will also have to make contributions , hardly amounts to a clear strategy to reduce welfare dependency . |
| 8 | Sentence linguists follow one of two procedures : they either invent their examples for analysis , using their own intuitive knowledge as native speakers ( their linguistic competence ) as a yardstick , or they take language which people have actually used and remove all the features which they believe to be irrelevant to their purposes . |