Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without this , one can not begin to grasp the size and complexity of Charles ' achievements — such as the uncanny speed with which he could move troops across great distances . |
| 2 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 3 | Johnson , however , fully aware of the likely number of biographers he might attract before and after his death , found here a biography in which he could have a say , thus not only securing his immortality , but controlling it . |
| 4 | Keeping the pace firmly to a speed at which he could consider his answers , he relaxed as the hour passed , even smiled . |
| 5 | Managers and engineers could not help but admire the assiduity and skill with which he could wear down his opponents in discussion , but for many of them this approach conflicted with other managerial values . |
| 6 | Ever since 1947 some Gaullists had recognized that the General 's willingness to prolong his role beyond periods of acute crisis — the only periods in which he could function as a consensual leader — risked compromising his mystique . |
| 7 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 8 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 9 | From morning to dusk on all days except the Sabbath , he was out in the marketplace among the other merchants trading in any commodity with which he could make a profit , including money itself . |
| 10 | Oxford , the scholarship , would then have been the defining influence , become the place in which he could have planted his flag and redrawn himself . |
| 11 | And yet the mundane circumference beyond which he stepped at such times was also necessary to him : it was the circle in which he could stand and be safe . |
| 12 | Each man had his everyday business in which he could feel he had his niche and even at times his indispensability . |
| 13 | The footholds grew narrower as he climbed higher , but a deep groove in the rock face opened out into a chimney in which he could brace his boots against the sides . |
| 14 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 15 | There were two bases on which he could have been convicted , either that the jury accepted that he had fetched the knife from his home , or , alternatively , that he had obtained the knife during the struggle but that they were satisfied that the essentials of self-defence were not made out . |
| 16 | Chesterton , a Stanhope who survived , found in fascism a positive political creed with which he could identify . |
| 17 | He went on to say that there was nothing at all from the last decade for which he could give Mrs Thatcher credit . |
| 18 | The Model Railways and Locomotives magazine was founded by him in 1908 and became a platform from which he could share his knowledge and expertise with others . |
| 19 | It became more of a defensive round , seldom in positions from which he could attack the hole and three-putting both the 11th and 15th . |
| 20 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |
| 21 | When the pope asked for some sign by which he could tell ‘ which requests are important to us and are dear to our heart , and which are not ’ , Edward indicated early in the new year that he would mark such requests with the words Pater Sancte , written in his own hand , but he promised that these requests would be employed with restraint — ‘ only as we can and ought ’ . |
| 22 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 23 | At one level , he finally found a spiritual home , a sanctuary from which he could vent his spleen on the oppressive bourgeois institutions which had duped him . |
| 24 | What he has done is to supply himself with a ridiculous experience by the telling of which he could entertain several hundred people , without having to undergo the dispiriting strain of suffering it first . |
| 25 | These words were defining him , setting the limits in which he could move and the terms in which he could plead , argue or defend himself . |
| 26 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |
| 27 | Commentary : where an offender is dealt with for a breach of a community service order , he must be sentenced ( if the order is revoked ) in a manner in which he could have been sentenced by the court which made the order , if he is in breach of a probation order , the court may sentence the offender as if he had just been convicted of the offence concerned . |
| 28 | With the agreement of my closest colleagues and the director of the MRC 's Clinical Research Centre , Dr C. C. Booth , I provided Dr Ted Steele with an environment in which he could complete his experiments in the friendly but critical atmosphere provided by immunologists who were trying to repeat his results themselves . |
| 29 | But as the BUF acquired a Chelsea headquarters where activists lived as soldiers in barracks , and a Blackshirt uniform was issued to remove the distinction of class and wealth , there emerged a political ideal to which he could give his complete loyalty . |
| 30 | Let us look at a holy man in action , and the means by which he could exercise local power in a society where constitutionalism by no means ruled . |