Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This is a rare opportunity to listen to Tavernier 's ideas about film and about the relationship between European and American cinema , a subject about which he has strong views . |
| 2 | Assuming that there is a perfect capital market , so that the individual can borrow or lend freely at an interest rate r ( about which he has confident expectations ) , a person 's expected lifetime discounted income is measured by , where W u and M u are expected wage income and capital receipts at time u , and P u denotes the survival probability . |
| 3 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 4 | The male guppy , a small South American fish , has a pair of fins on his underside modified into a gun-like tube through which he fires small bullets of sperm at the female 's genital opening . |
| 5 | And , of course , the state is linked directly to the sphere of production , for which it performs necessary functions , being also an arena within which the class-struggles are fought out . |
| 6 | Goody , then , sees the activities of Pythagoras and his followers as quite different from the flowering of logic , scientific clarity , lack of ambiguity , scepticism etc. for which he praises classical Greece . |
| 7 | Lastly , there is his first ‘ model ’ of agriculture , with its paupers , ruthless exploitation etc. , of which he says pre-revolutionary Russia was an example . |
| 8 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |
| 9 | Golding ) , he was , I agree , referring to a new phenomenon of which he has personal experience . |
| 10 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |
| 11 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |
| 12 | BA has invested £20m of its own money in the venture , of which it owns 31 p.c. , but says that further finance will come from Air Russia 's own resources , such as state loans and leasing . |
| 13 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |
| 14 | The visitor to an art museum without any such training or differentiated habitus uses the classifications with which he/she perceives every-day reality to perceive the work of art . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got one like that , ’ says Chris , who keeps a toy revolver under the bed , with which he fires red caps at the television . |
| 16 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's got a rather grand name but we simply call him Billy , ’ said dad , who would n't let go of his famous foam mallet with which he bashes kiddy guests on his long-running TV-am show , Wacaday . |
| 18 | With the admirable thoroughness with which he approaches each role , Dustin took a crash course in Italian . |
| 19 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 20 | The differences between quotation and paraphrase can be seen in the following contrasting examples : Quotation " One of the most striking things about detective fiction " , Patricia Craig argues in her critical introduction to English detective stories , " is the ease with which it accommodates all kinds of topical ideologies . " |
| 21 | It is not clear whether the date of composition of The Epistle of Mixed Life precedes or follows Scale 1 with which it has close affinities . |
| 22 | The late Sir Peter Scott was the founder , in 1961 ( WWF is the only one of the Big Three which has British origins ) , and international headquarters are in Gland , Switzerland , in the same building as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ) , with which it has close relations ( and which , in turn , is close to UNEP ) . |
| 23 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 24 | Adorno has another small category , that of ‘ folklorist modernism ’ , into which he fits such composers as Bartók and Janáĉek . |
| 25 | Current alliances include the agreement under which it manufactures some microprocessors under licence from Intel Corp , its joint venture with Siemens AG and Toshiba Corp on memory chips , and the PowerPC alliance with Motorola Inc , and its less well-defined agreements with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV . |
| 26 | He surmised that every bird possesses a form of template upon which it tries different notes until it finds the correct ones . |
| 27 | If Winnicott 's image of the mirror-image is a valid one and what the baby needs at a certain stage is a reflection of a meaningful world in which she/he has some place , we are also back with perception and self-perception . |
| 28 | The series , in which she plays tough-talking Tessa , opposite millionaire boyfriend Adam Faith , has been a smash hit with viewers , attracting an audience of more than 10 million . |
| 29 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 30 | If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures . |