Example sentences of "[noun] with which [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | High oxygen levels are not important , for the fish has an air bladder with which it can breathe air . |
2 | You 'll receive a distinctive personalised Club card with which you can claim you Air Miles at participating Shell Stations . |
3 | Thus in this linking process , the teacher requires flexibility to help pupils build links at a speed with which they can cope . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Proud of the speed with which it can run Windows 3.1 applications on Sparc systems using its SunPC hardware and software combination , SunSelect vice president and general manager Carl Ledbetter could still not resist speculating that future technology for running PC applications from Sun would ‘ go way beyond the current generation , without the need for a card ’ . |
7 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
8 | Mercedes last week announced the car with which it will defend its world sportscar crown and begin preparations for an F1 assault . |
9 | The colour left her skin , her pale face showing a deep fear at the way he was crushing her to his body , the whipcord strength of his arms and the determination of his roaming fingers giving her an idea of the violence with which he would take her . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The instrument with which we shall purge our minds is the idea that I call the extended phenotype . |
12 | Because language appears such a natural instrument with which we can describe reality , its terms and expressions seem to describe the way things are and will always be . |
13 | Our first task is to remove the uncertainties with which we can deal , and the first of those are the proposals of Mr. MacSharry . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | and erm like I said up to about , up to about two years ago you could claim housing benefit with which you could pay your rent , and that was a great help to students you know , but now that 's been stopped , but you do n't get anything like that , so you 've got thirty five pound a week to pay for food , rent , community charge , everything |
16 | Cultural items are torn from their natural social context and lumped together , in the most arbitrary fashion , with similarly uprooted , and hence distorted , elements with which they may have no necessary connection . |
17 | The whole scene , the bar scene , the prostitution scene , the whole sex scene was enticing , shocking and , at the same time , fascinating but , above all , it was new , and they had no frame of reference with which they could measure it , ’ says Ed Behr . |
18 | There are other differences in penalties between England and Wales and Scotland with which we should deal . |
19 | The advantage of such a system to trainees building a career lies in the complete flexibility with which they can gain qualifications . |
20 | However , it is intended that they should extract from the reader that kind of critical attitude with which he should read this book from Chapter 1 onwards . |
21 | BY 1983 , New Order had three things : a deep desire to break away from the son-of-Joy-Division guitar glaciers with which they 'd become associated , a new-found interest in the electro dance vibe that was filling the UK 's clubs , and a brand new drum machine . |
22 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
23 | One of these effects can be what Britton ( 1981 ) refers to as the phenomenon of re-enactment as an unwitting professional response to the dynamics of a child 's situation , the difficulty that exists for professionals not to re-enact — and thereby aggravate — what the child already experiences , and the ease with which they may collude with his sense of hopelessness and negative feelings . |
24 | However it is equally clear that large Japanese companies do hold a powerful competitive edge because of the ease with which they can alter the balance between their own output and that of their smaller suppliers . |
25 | For all this many professions and other service providers still cast their eyes enviously at accountants and the apparent ease with which they can offer additional services to clients , thanks to the automatic access granted by audit . |
26 | The early experience suggests that for the enthusiast of language , for example , the latter approach and even the former is possible : equally too the science enthusiast in primary schools protests at the ease with which they can familiarise themselves with the process . |
27 | Physiological psychology presents a range of major methodological challenges , and how well we meet these challenges affects the ease with which we can interpret the experiments that we carry out . |
28 | This is not surprising , given the difficulties encountered in developing them , but it does limit the ease with which we can generalize from one experiment to another or from experiments to the real world . |
29 | I love the immediacy of pastels , the feel of pastel stick against the paper , the ease with which you can create either whispers of colour , or strong , dynamic statements . |
30 | But what catches the eye , while lane-changing to avoid the gaudily clad in day-glo outfits , is the ease with which you can buy boron-graphite shafts at just 13 dollars a go . |