Example sentences of "[prep] which it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For four days the battalion suffered continuous attacks from apparently limitless numbers , during which it made a fighting withdrawal of 10 miles . |
| 2 | The United States space shuttle Discovery landed safely on Oct. 10 after a flawless four-day mission during which it launched the Ulysses space craft , a joint project of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the European Space Agency ( ESA ) , on a US$750,000,000 five-year mission to investigate the Sun 's unexplored polar regions , its magnetic field and the solar wind . |
| 3 | It is one of the ‘ true ’ whales in that its mouth is furnished with plates of baleen ( whalebone ) through which it filters the water from the shoaling small fish on which it feeds . |
| 4 | Gears are fitted to the standard 57 h.p. motor , through which it drives the axle . |
| 5 | Particularly annoyed was the CGLI which said that the DES statement had included ‘ some unwarranted and damaging remarks about the Institute ’ , a gaffe for which it received an apology from no less a person than the Permanent Secretary . |
| 6 | Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution . |
| 7 | The board only markets accommodation which has passed an inspection for which it charges a fee . |
| 8 | The board only markets accommodation which has passed an inspection for which it charges a fee . |
| 9 | The Board 's role had been afforced through its assumption of providing powers under the Bedfordshire scheme and through its close co-operative relationships with the Rural Community Council ( RCC ) in Cambridgeshire and for which it provided a series of courses in that county . |
| 10 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp , which is betting the company on its new HyperSparc microprocessor , for which it has no customers , is to cut costs by moving its US assembly operations offshore at the cost of about 200 American jobs this year — 100 have gone immediately ; it has n't said where assembly will be done . |
| 11 | Perhaps expansion is taking the company into areas for which it has no expertise . |
| 12 | As schooling goes on there is a progressive revelation of the selective role of the school vis-a-vis the labour market , bringing children into an asymptotic relation to ‘ real life ’ , for which it provides the apprenticeship . |
| 13 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | Under these powers the commission had to disclose the purpose for which it required the land . |
| 15 | Thus , for instance , the implied term that goods supplied under a contract of sale should be fit for the buyer 's purpose ( SGA 1979 , s14(3) ) only applies if the buyer makes known to the seller the purpose for which it wants the goods , relies on the seller 's skill or judgment , and does so reasonably . |
| 16 | When people begin to owe their significance to objects , or objects themselves begin to upstage people , not only the house , but the world of which it forms a part , has altered . |
| 17 | The fundamental rule , however it should properly be characterised , derives its legal authority from the underlying moral or political theory of which it forms a part . |
| 18 | There are no meanings " per se " , as distinct from meaningful expressions ; and what an expression means is determined entirely by the use that such an expression may be put to within the particular language game of which it forms a part . |
| 19 | The Meien valley road climbs up west from Wassen through varied alpine landscape including tunnels , through one of which it traverses the Susten pass summit ( 2,224m , 7,295ft ) . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) It possesses the monopoly of violence throughout this area , by virtue of which it has the capacity , even if not the moral authority , to guarantee the finality of its decision in political disputes arising from the conflict of individuals or groups within its territory . |
| 21 | The subsidiary company can only use the ACT in any period throughout which it remains a subsidiary of the surrendering company . |
| 22 | Near Marston Doles the route turned south , past Priors Hardwick , Upper and Lower Boddington to Aston-le-Wall , near which it crosses the Banbury-Daventry road . |
| 23 | Altogether the Grand Trunk Canal had five tunnels and seventy-six locks on its ninetythree mile course from the Mersey to Shardlow , near which it entered the Trent . |
| 24 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's agreement with Eo Inc on the marketing and perhaps later the manufacturing of its Eo 440 and 880 handheld communicators in Europe ( CI No 2,124 ) involves the Italian taking the same stake as everyone else in Eo — the entry fee is $10m , with which it gets a seat on the firm 's board . |
| 25 | Each returns carrying a crop full of water with which it wets the walls of the main part of the nest . |
| 26 | The company said the results are likely to include an £8½m exceptional loss resulting from the appointment of administrative receivers to its client , Quietwater , with which it had a contract to build a hotel and leisure complex on a golf course development in Essex . |
| 27 | Even the power of the storm , with which it shared a kinship also , could not assuage the hunger . |
| 28 | In practice this was done by a compromise , the thin skin being stiffened by attaching to it spars and stringers , with which it shared the load , the whole rather elaborate surface forming a shell stiff in bending and therefore unlikely to buckle . |
| 29 | This gives it a passing resemblance to a crab , with which it shares an inability to raise itself significantly above any flat surface on which it finds itself , giving the lie to that universally popular , but inaccurate , graffito , ‘ Please to stand upon the seat , the crabs in here can jump six feet ’ . |
| 30 | The rate at which its expectations have been rising strongly suggests that by the end of the year , the figure will be even higher than 40,000 , which is already 12% of the 344,000 with which it started the year . |