Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] which [pron] could " 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 | There were always polite formulae to which one could adhere . |
| 3 | Surely , the lowest level of coordinated action at which we could seriously confront this question is that of the European Community ? |
| 4 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 5 | Was there perhaps some route by which it could be circumvented ? |
| 6 | She was almost on top of the river before she realised that this was where the path was leading , and here she found another seat from which she could see a boat or two plaiting lazy fans of rippling wake through the smooth water . |
| 7 | The words furnished tenancy would be empty vessels into which anything could be poured . |
| 8 | A court would interpret such words in their natural manner which is objective , i.e. the Secretary of State could not simply rely upon his own subjective beliefs , but would have to point to some evidence from which it could reasonably be inferred that , for example , Napoleon was a person of hostile origin . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | It seems ludicrous that Scottish Back-Benchers do not even have the facility of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs to which we could summon Ministers and ask them in detail about the problems that we face . |
| 11 | Well , my basic kit of hand tools consists of 12 items with which you could tackle any common gardening job . |
| 12 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 13 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 14 | Mr Major 's transport ministers have desperately tried to discover some way in which they could carry out their former leader 's instruction that the railways must be privatised . |
| 15 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 16 | A ten For the next hour I took delivery of many additional purchases , the vast majority of which I could n't remember purchasing . |
| 17 | Indeed , if the Council have any other similar projects in which we could be involved , we would be happy to help . |
| 18 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 19 | He was a Stradivarius among performers ; a perfect instrument on which you could play anything . |
| 20 | It even had a creaking dock at which we could tie up directly alongside . |
| 21 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 22 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 23 | These people only understood one thing and that was individualism and by telling people to jog and eat brown bread , they defined health as an individual problem for which they could offer only individual solutions . |
| 24 | However , although there was less to be done , there were also fewer hours in which it could be accomplished . |
| 25 | We put in a new sink and Malcolm bought us a Baby Belling cooker , one electric ring on which we could heat a an of beans very , very slowly . |
| 26 | Holland had both a tradition of national independence to which it could look back , and important colonial possessions , but , like Belgium , was formally ‘ new ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that although business sponsorship of the arts is extremely important and welcome , it would be just as beneficial for the arts , particularly local theatres such as the Civic theatre in Chelmsford , if we had a national lottery to which everyone could contribute to help to raise funds for the arts ? |
| 30 | We remember the great names like Lyell or Darwin , and forget the supporting cast without which they could not have been stars : those in museums classifying their findings . |