Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] which we [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 This is the first of a short series of programmes in which we shall be taking a look at some of these unfortunate happenings , and asking questions such as , ‘ To what extent can they predicted ? ’ and ‘ How can they best be coped with ? ’
2 There are two important fields of action in which we can work for the restoration of a vigorous and healthy economic life .
3 At the same time , it has permitted the formation of a more precise theory of relationships from which we may deduce evolutionary pathways .
4 He puts forward the concept of the ‘ eye-beam ’ as an instrument of perception with which we can actually touch and feel objects :
5 As for the question of partnership and friendship in the 1990s , the joint declaration that we signed sets out a series of bases on which we can improve our relationship with Russia .
6 Verbs involve an appreciation of time ; nouns of objects in space , or of mental concepts and experiences ; adjectives of qualities between which we can discriminate ; adverbs of associations in time , space and quality .
7 Dana was much more experienced than I : he taught me a form of carezza by which we could indefinitely prolong erection and contain ejaculation .
8 In short , we now have a wealth of riches of which we can be proud .
9 Nothing illustrates better the fluidity of viewpoints by which we can swing towards and away from egoism , and how little it has to do with morality .
10 That is one of the problems of democracy to which we shall have to return .
11 The top of the tree consists of ways in which we can sense , such as archaeology , psychometry , dowsing and aesthetic response .
12 There are a number of ways in which we can help relieve the financial strain and start you off in your chosen career with no unnecessary money worries .
13 If we want to tell somebody a fact about the world — let's say that John ate fish and chips — we have a number of ways in which we can put this into a sentence .
14 There are a number of ways in which we can link Weberian theory to our particular interests .
15 That is the background of neglect against which we must realise that the Bill is being introduced .
16 In his inaugural lecture he imagines a utopian plurality of languages on which we would draw ‘ according to the truth of desire ’ :
17 These are the sort of avenues by which we should approach proper research as to the quality of the environment as perceived by the animal , proper use of education to disseminate that knowledge and minimal legislation where necessary .
18 We can all think of examples to which we would apply these descriptions and be willing to give reasons .
19 When we talk about part-time holdings in any context — certainly in an island context — we are not speaking about small static parcels of land with which we can play about like pieces in a jig-saw puzzle .
20 I wrote the above lines several years ago about a site which I visit regularly as an indication of the sort of way in which we might best approach sacred sites in the landscape .
21 Hymes ' checklist of ethnographic features offers one characterisation of context to which we can relate such deictic elements .
22 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 .
23 To describe the positions and velocities of atoms in a polymer requires choosing a set of global axes , defining a continuum , with reference to which we may describe the positions and velocities of the atoms .
24 But they had no place in public life , and we hear nothing about them in the Historia Novorum , which is concerned with events to which we must now turn .
25 So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact .
26 If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter .
27 Most of the information available from institutions from which we could sample concerned adult applicants rather than adult enquirers .
28 The argument from analogy with which we shall be concerned here admits that it is possible that the objects we call persons are , other than ourselves , mindless automata , but claims that we none the less have sufficient reason for supposing this not to be the case .
29 In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved .
30 The first of these concerns the attempt to construct a general theoretical framework in terms of which we can answer the ‘ limited ’ particular questions of the second .
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