Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] which [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wisdom and strategic vision laid the solid foundations on which we will continue to build . |
| 2 | This is by no means the end of the matter , but enough has been stated to show the breadth of the definition of development and the technical complexities to which it can give rise . |
| 3 | Our system of government is being changed , with increasing disregard for tradition , the only unwritten rules to which one might appeal as ‘ constitutional ’ principles . |
| 4 | There were always polite formulae to which one could adhere . |
| 5 | The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 8 | To study this problem , the investigators have first to develop small models for a small number of key countries , and then to simulate different strategies with which they might or might not manage to cooperate . |
| 9 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Each member of her family and each of her close friends will have different strengths upon which she will need to draw , and together you should try to form a bridge over which she can gradually cross from the barren wasteland of her sorrow back into society where her new role awaits her . |
| 12 | The words furnished tenancy would be empty vessels into which anything could be poured . |
| 13 | High ladders from which she must not look down ? |
| 14 | However , there are some matters on which we will seek clarification or assurance . |
| 15 | The open-air markets , held weekly in most major towns , are lively social gatherings at which you may be lucky enough to strike an excellent holiday bargain . |
| 16 | Here are some further areas in which you may well have experience and that would stand you in good stead with a prospective employer . |
| 17 | LASMO has sold its entire interest in 14 blocks , and part interests in three further blocks in which it will retain operatorship . |
| 18 | What we need is , firstly , a more specific indication of what is meant by a route to chaos and , secondly , some ideas on which we can draw in Sections 24.5 and 24.7 . |
| 19 | There are only a few studies with which we can illustrate this approach . |
| 20 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 21 | Anyone who has witnessed my hon. Friend and his especially outstanding and noticeable ties will see that Redditch has many lively things on which it can be commended to the nation . |
| 22 | Firm I 's pessimism may be more readily justified if the competition between the firms is so intense that Firm II's choice of action is solely motivated by the desire to minimise the profits made by Firm I. This supposition is obviously too extreme to be realistic , but its relaxation involves further problems into which we shall not enter here . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In this essay , I have attempted to suggest some ways in which we might look beyond the conceptual dichotomy between ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ , villagers and bureaucrats , to ask how the dynamic of interaction across the boundary is played out . |
| 25 | Well , my basic kit of hand tools consists of 12 items with which you could tackle any common gardening job . |
| 26 | All of these aspects of the production of the text affect its meaning , both from the point of view of the author 's intention and of the most probable interpretation , even before we consider the wider social situations in which it may be encountered . |
| 27 | It was not simply a matter of switching the definitions of crime from what the working class do to what the capitalist class do ( that would merely be a transitional strategy ) ; in the socialist society both upper- and lower-class crime would disappear since there would be ‘ a set of social arrangements in which there would be no politically , economically and socially-induced need to criminalise deviance ’ ( Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , p. 270 ) . |
| 28 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 29 | Its difference from simple empirical generalization is that whereas this former extends its local names to a variety of historical situations to which they may be only partly appropriate , this latter , theoreticist tendency extends its presumptive interpretations and categories in what is always , essentially , a search for illustrative instances . |
| 30 | Should anyone be interested , I would gladly co-ordinate their efforts — one of the few ways in which I might be able to help the Society from this distance ’ . |