Example sentences of "something which [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 2 | Yes , yes , I mean we 've , we 've sort of talked about it but not done very much about it , Communicado of course is based on the Lyceum which is something which is worth knowing , erm |
| 3 | If you compose something which is to be engraved , make it easy , suitable for amateurs and rather popular . |
| 4 | The other thing which is actually mentioned that we one of the worst aspects was done and I personally tried to look at what the impact on road building around elsewhere and it is absolutely appalling and er I think that is something which is to be , I 'm sure it will be , will be called out . |
| 5 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 6 | All his political thinking is refracted in the films through personal dramas , which bear the stamp of his preoccupation with politics as something which is about individual people , rather than issues or abstractions like the masses of the nation . |
| 7 | If a speaker tries to talk while riding fast on a horse , the speaker 's pitch will make a lot of sudden rises and falls as a result of the irregular movement ; this is something which is outside the speaker 's control and therefore can not be linguistically significant . |
| 8 | You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt . |
| 9 | Your conception of pains which are not yours is not a conception of something which is like your pain , since it hurts , but which is not one of yours . |
| 10 | Projection is a psychological process whereby something which is inside the mind is perceived as being outside it , perhaps in someone else 's mind , or in the outside world . |
| 11 | Let it be something which is in complete contrast to the way you normally spend your time . |
| 12 | I would now like to turn my attention to something which is in a sense a mirror image of what we have been considering . |
| 13 | But what I 'd like you to do is to go with me during the next couple of hours , have an open mind and erm if I say something which is in an in any way provocative , question me if you want to , cos that 's what we 're here for , to communicate . |
| 14 | So , you 're , you 're trying to find something which is in the language of the modern speaker . |
| 15 | I mean as long as we 've got something which is in the of where we want to be , we can actually measure how well we 're performing against our own plan , which I think is what you 'd like to be able to do . |
| 16 | So if you 're writing something which is in the form of a newsy form of activity , bear in mind the sort of ever-increasing circles . |
| 17 | Manipulating people by tricking them into doing something which is against their best interests is clearly bad . |