Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] which [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a theory might claim , for instance , that to understand a proposition is to be able to tell the difference between circumstances in which one would be justified in believing it and those in which one would not . |
| 2 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 3 | First , the original client shows up on a plane of existence to which she would never normally have access . |
| 4 | The whole thing hidden beneath layers of ice and rock , untraceable from the air : a flexible and formidable system of defences from which they would launch their attack on the Seven . |
| 5 | Enter Rita , a young , timid , nervous , woman in clinging red dress , lipstick to match and a pair of shoes in which you would not want to run for a bus . |
| 6 | There was a limit to the amount of drama in which he would involve himself . |
| 7 | Members also felt the constitution was counter-productive , especially when capital projects called for an injection of cash over which they would have no control , and which was seen as improving someone else 's investment . |
| 8 | Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference . |
| 9 | 2.47 Lord Pearson would have awarded a multiplicand of £4,000 from which he would have deducted £250 for the accelerated receipt of the £10,000 . |
| 10 | ‘ The formal words about the necessity of the ‘ neutrality ’ of Afghanistan contained in the Carrington Plan ’ were described as ‘ no more than a screen for the creation of conditions in which it would be possible to achieve a restoration of the regime overthrown by the Afghan people ’ . |
| 11 | Opposing traits in his make-up were already evident during his last year at school , when he was voted both class optimist and class pessimist , though , at that time , he had yet to appreciate certain complexities of character on which he would draw for his screen creations . |
| 12 | The previous section depicted all sorts of situations in which it would be natural to describe animals or human babies as recognising something — names , parents , fellow-creatures , their own bodies ( but not their ‘ self ’ ) — and it was concluded that there was nothing out of order in so doing . |
| 13 | The therapist encouraged Pamela to make a list of ways in which she would like her parents to change in terms of providing her with greater freedom . |
| 14 | However , she had encountered difficulties in drawing up a list of ways in which she would like her parents to be more tolerant . |
| 15 | Just as the higher law of life stops an apple held in my hand from obeying the law of gravity to which it would otherwise be subject , so the law ( as he daringly calls it ) of the Spirit overcomes the sin death principle to which the Christian would otherwise be subject . |
| 16 | Bisset , using a description of Taking the Side of the Other as a justification for the tactic , concluded that ‘ there are states of society in which it would be proper to contract the very opinions that it would be right to cherish in other circumstances ’ ( Bisset , 1800 : 269 ) . |
| 17 | Not at all the kind of surroundings in which she would have expected to find the high-profile , socially-very-much-in-demand Nathan Bryce . |
| 18 | In his inaugural lecture he imagines a utopian plurality of languages on which we would draw ‘ according to the truth of desire ’ : |
| 19 | We can all think of examples to which we would apply these descriptions and be willing to give reasons . |
| 20 | However , 90% of funding to be distributed to authors was not fanciful , and indeed the new Registrar , Dr James Parker , was keen to establish a figure of 11% on which he would work for administrative expenses . |
| 21 | In short , they should establish the kind of position in which they would wish to see themselves at the end of that period . |
| 22 | The question of constructive knowledge is dealt with in part by asking whether or not , in the circumstances of the particular case , the ticket was the sort of document on which one would reasonably expect to find legally binding terms and conditions , and in part by asking whether or not the party issuing the ticket made reasonable attempts to bring the existence of the conditions to the notice of the other party . |
| 23 | She , who had always helped lame dogs , now refused the many helping hands that were held out to her , because they only hauled her back , temporarily , into a life of comfort from which she would later have to return to reality . |
| 24 | In the Berg judgment , Mr Justice Hobhouse considered the timing of Union Discount 's alleged reliance on the 1982 accounts : ‘ Furthermore , there would only be a limited period of time within which it would be reasonably foreseeable that a bank or discount house would rely upon a given set of audited accounts . |
| 25 | If a man had been repeatedly unsuccessful he would go to the river , dive to the bottom and bring up a lump of clay with which he would mark his forehead , taking care to be unobserved , otherwise the spell lost its efficacy . |
| 26 | Further , such a view provides a nice parallel with semantics : for just as a semantic theory is concerned , say , with the recursive assignment of truth conditions to well-formed formulae , so pragmatics is concerned with the recursive assignment of appropriateness conditions to the same set of sentences with their semantic interpretations In other words , a pragmatic theory should in principle predict for each and every well-formed sentence of a language , on a particular semantic reading , the set of contexts in which it would be appropriate . |
| 27 | With many populations we are already aware that the units fall into sub-groups of which we would wish to take account in any sampling . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million . |
| 30 | Fourth , many participants frankly admitted that they had very low expectations at the outset : specifically that the course was simply designed to punish them , in return for which they would give the minimum amount of attention possible . |