Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 2 | Write Ellen and by express even telegram for which I will pay in order that I might have the relief of knowing you have understood and all is clear . |
| 3 | I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city . |
| 4 | Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet . |
| 5 | I have always had very limited sympathy with what is rather mis misdescribed in my er er view , as industrial action , but there is one in history , one instance of industrial action with which I must tell Your Lordships I feel an increasing sympathy . |
| 6 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
| 7 | Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return . |
| 8 | However , while this tells us how not to solve the problem , it is less clear what positive steps we are to take — a dilemma to which I shall return later in the chapter . |
| 9 | Not all objectors to the Hinkley C plan supported such a straightforward advocacy of coal , especially with the growing problems of acid rain pollution and the greenhouse effect to which I shall return in Part Three . |
| 10 | Non-tidal and desperately steep , they 'll be too hard for an old fart like me ; but round the corner is a huge , blocky , roofed sweep of rock on which I 'd reckon to stand a chance . |
| 11 | They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart . |
| 12 | ‘ Take your son , your only son , whom you love , Isaac , and go to the land of Moriah , and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you . ’ |
| 13 | But now I 'm more together , I 've a whole lot of other areas in which I can express my feelings , I just hope the songs wo n't lose anything . |
| 14 | It had not been my direct responsibility to purchase it and I was operating in a field where everyone else — the companies from which I might buy , those from which we now bought , and the management of the division — was an expert . |
| 15 | ‘ The only circumstances in which I would anticipate the use of the remedies of certiorari and mandamus would be in the event , which I hope is unthinkable , of the panel acting in breach of the rules of natural justice — in other words , unfairly . |
| 16 | And what more , what more should we expect from a Party that is led nationally by a man who , in 1983 , says , there are no circumstances in which I would order or permit the firing of a nuclear weapon , which leads somebody to say , Kinnock 's lust for power is so great that he 's prepared to ditch any principle to get it . |
| 17 | Rendered all the worse by the high hopes I once had , the desire to wrest from Mother Nature some of her deepest secrets , however dark the passage down which I might tread . |
| 18 | This is an issue to which I shall return later in this chapter , when I consider relationships between siblings specifically . |
| 19 | Whether this is the case in contemporary societies is an issue to which I shall return in later chapters . |
| 20 | There has been , as I have emphasised , no criticism of his judgment on the material that was before him and besides those to which I have already drawn attention , there are two other matters to which I should make reference . |
| 21 | How they are set is a difficult question to which I shall return , but those who decry as too narrow the scope of a Convention running to over a hundred Articles must surely embody the resuscitated spirit of Oliver Twist who will always cry for more ! |
| 22 | He stopped as he heard her gasp , then went on steadily , ‘ But I have a question to which I 'd like to know the answer . |
| 23 | The local authority , the Croydon London Borough Council , had applied to the justices in circumstances to which I will refer for an interim care order . |
| 24 | The earliest part of curve B corresponds to this , then there is a lull , and then a broad peak in bombardment from a fresh supply of small bodies the possible nature of which I shall discuss in section 8.2 . |
| 25 | He has his failing however , I am sorry to say , the particulars of which I will explain when we meet . |
| 26 | That is the basis on which I shall consider the application , and I will do so carefully . |
| 27 | ‘ If I cut my profits and prices to whatever lower level you prescribe — for I assume I shall have your guidance on what that should be — will you advise me about the basis on which I should ration the consumers of my article ? |
| 28 | That is a good point on which I can give my hon. Friend not only a specific example , but an assurance . |
| 29 | We intend to ask the local government commission , which we hope to set up , to consider whether people want unitary authorities to be treated as part of historical counties for certain traditional or non-administrative purposes such as sport , a theme to which I shall return . |
| 30 | On the one hand — and this is a point to which I shall return — there is a dual claim against Lukács ' evolutionism ( to the effect that different levels of a social formation are relatively autonomous : crudely , if bourgeois society is decadent this does not necessarily mean , as Lukács thought it did , that its art is too ) , and in favour of the possibility of being able to pass a positive ‘ aesthetic judgement ’ upon a particular work however questionable the general category under which it has been produced ( a position related to Brecht 's polemic against Lukács ) . |