Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] which he [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chesterton , a Stanhope who survived , found in fascism a positive political creed with which he could identify . |
| 2 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
| 3 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | At some point or other the student of local history will encounter dates expressed in a variety of different ways with which he will have to become familiar . |
| 6 | But in a sense , too , she knew that Louise was not wrong to worry about Harry committing such a blunder , for Harry , moving in the social circles in which he would move , if he survived the siege , to the day of his death , would almost certainly suffer the inconveniences of having such a wife , would regret his marriage , and perhaps in due course would come to believe that his life had been ruined . |
| 7 | The olive grove through which he used to walk as a boy was submerged beneath a main road and a cluster of lean-to engineering sheds even before 1948 . |
| 8 | For such occasions Milton had perfected an immaculate form of rapid-fire introduction in which he would give his guests both their potted biographies and list of credits . |
| 9 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 10 | Instead , he groped towards some formula into which he might recast his earlier aesthetic while obscuring the reasons for doing so : a task made easier by his tortuous prose style . |
| 11 | It was urged that , if this construction were adopted , a solicitor would have a shorter time during which he may abstain from bringing his action for work done than the rest of Her Majesty 's subjects . |
| 12 | To his right a shorter flight of steps gave access to an equally dark corridor along which he must walk to reach his bedroom . |
| 13 | It was suggested that the plaster should stay on for between four and six weeks after which he might like to think of building up its strength . |
| 14 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 15 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 16 | He wrote a poem about his friend Francis Thompson , and in it there are many echoes of his own sad youth in which he must have wondered often if his mind would flower too late for good . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , at least in public , he reiterated his previous position that there were no foreseeable circumstances in which he would challenge Mrs Thatcher . |
| 18 | On one occasion he is said to have decorated the whole of the College in three days after which he could still outlast anyone on the dance floor . |
| 19 | An investor who holds a European call option in a stock thus has a guaranteed price at which he can buy the stock on the settlement day , if he so wishes . |
| 20 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 21 | In 1946 he returned and , under the sponsorship of the local government , began a new photographic project in which he would cover every aspect of life on the island . |
| 22 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 23 | For Kirton , the assistant-coach position may fall slightly below his highest expectations , but will be a satisfactory position from which he can expand , if not introduce , his sometimes exotic ideas about back play . |
| 24 | There was nothing to suggest the reduction in capital was brought about with the deliberate intention to obtain legal aid to which he would otherwise not be elegible . |
| 25 | Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again . |
| 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 | Heard that he had a walkie-talkie radio on which he could give the engineer instructions to slow down further , and to stop . |
| 28 | Edwin Garland felt uneasy , a vague shapeless unease for which he could find no immediate cause . |
| 29 | Darkness was falling and the huge pane of glass was a black rectangle in which he could see their faces reflected , like the gaunt , disembodied heads of night travellers in a lighted railway carriage . |
| 30 | 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 . |