Example sentences of "something which [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because Puccini 's story is so bare and elemental , he 's able to create something which is immensely subtle and extremely rich . |
| 2 | Firstly , if the argument is that any of the suggested markets — be they for products , corporate control or managerial talent — at present actually operates to constrain corporate managers , this is not something which is empirically demonstrated , and given the present nature of these markets it seems an implausible claim . |
| 3 | In this way a project which would have been profitable evolves into something much more fancy — and more fun — but something which is no longer profitable . |
| 4 | something which is no longer in the procedure you 'd leave it in crossed out . |
| 5 | What 's even more amazing is that the Heartbreakers ' music is both memorable and professional , something which is seemingly least expected from a New Wave band . |
| 6 | At this point the government would find itself sliding toward selling off the whole of the National Weather Service , something which is surely not the intention . |
| 7 | Indeed , in this stereotyped world many of us have a longing to do something which is artistically original , in some way to leave our mark on the musical scene . |
| 8 | In order to appreciate something which is above and beyond ourselves we have to rid ourselves for a time of our sophistication and , in the words of Jesus Christ , become as little children again . |
| 9 | It is a creative process , not a past process and something which is just stored away and lost and kept for the future . |
| 10 | The fact that the target language is not speech allows the interpreter to do something which is superficially easy : to shadow the source language without analysing it . |
| 11 | So a lot of people quite understandably say , ‘ The media is something which is best kept out of here and if they 're coming I shall hide under the table ’ and so on . |
| 12 | As to British Aerospace , will my hon. Friend give a firm assurance that the Government will continue vigorously to support exports of military aircraft — something which is strongly opposed by many Opposition Members ? |
| 13 | Something which is particularly curious is that increased government expenditure has not produced the egalitarian society which was intended . |
| 14 | Read for a while , then do some writing or some research browsing in a library ; this can reduce the effect of strain or tiredness with long bouts of writing , something which is particularly important for health reasons if you work at a computer . |
| 15 | ‘ We are happy to legislate on something which is already happening in the game , in other words to make it legal for the hooker to strike as soon as the ball leaves the hands of the scrum-half — as happens in reality — rather than when it pitches . |
| 16 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 17 | Some schools of linguistics have sought to understand language by isolating it from its context : something which is clearly impossible when we actually use language for communication . |
| 18 | An offer is something which is clearly intended if accepted to form a binding agreement . |
| 19 | Aggression , in the Morrissey vision , is something which is both permitted and to be encouraged in certain circumstances . |
| 20 | Empiricism , as a theory of how we acquire concepts , requires there to be something which is both a ‘ state of consciousness ’ and such that it does not have logical conditions , that is , is unlike a would-be belief . |
| 21 | If we are indeed in such a digestive , living-with-it , period it would explain something which is otherwise puzzling . |
| 22 | Particularly with something which is otherwise in |
| 23 | The rate of vibration of the vocal cords — something which is physically measurable , and which is related to activity on the part of the speaker — is the fundamental frequency of voiced sounds , and should not be called ‘ pitch ’ . |
| 24 | This serves as an introduction to Part II , and more particularly as a prelude to Chapter 6 , because it deals with the subject of fiction itself : something which is strictly not a matter of style , but which is presupposed by the study of style in fiction writing . |
| 25 | Joos 's " infinitive " is in fact made up of two words — to plus the bare infinitive — as can be seen from the possibility of inserting an adverb between them ( I want to really scare him ) and of finding to all by itself , something which is strictly impossible with inflections ( I do n't want to ) . |
| 26 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |
| 27 | It seems rather strange to me that something which is patently strategic should come so far down the list of factors even er below satisfactory access for example . |
| 28 | What remains uncertain is whether consciousness is a separate phenomenon which needs explaining , like language or vision , or whether it is simply an attribute of certain neural processes in the same way as high reflectance is an attribute of the piece of paper you are looking at while you read this , something which is simply part of the physical characteristics of the brain or the paper . |
| 29 | They reasoned that an attitude held by an individual is a unique value on a continuum of possibilities or scale , rather than something which is simply present or absent . |
| 30 | In the example given by Cotte , the impossibility of fleeing is not something which is immediately perceivable by the sense of vision . |