Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] which [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Purchaser shall be in receipt of any claim , or any fact or circumstance comes to the notice of the Purchaser which might constitute or give rise to a liability pursuant to any of the warranties the Purchaser shall forthwith notify the Vendor giving full details so far as practicable and shall not make any admission of liability or settle or comprise any such claim without the prior written consent of the Vendor such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ( subject to being indemnified and secured to its reasonable satisfaction against all costs and expenses incurred or for which it may become liable ) ; |
| 2 | I want to ask the Minister why his two Back-Bench colleagues from Wolverhampton did not nominate the schools which they would wish to see closed or from which they would like to have surplus places taken away . |
| 3 | That said , the book is one which all local historians should own or to which they should have easy access . |
| 4 | She turned towards him , ‘ Nor of which you would disapprove , I hope . ’ |
| 5 | I mean it 's , it 's general I suppose I mean if it would be better to switch it on and off which you can do and er , you know , I mean we ca n't sit here continually talking |
| 6 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 7 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 8 | We try to bring about an environment in which creativity can flourish by selecting people of outstanding ability who wish to work on a problem of their own choice and for which we can imagine a substantial outcome . |
| 9 | It 's also worth applying for other jobs that appeal and for which you might have a chance . |
| 10 | She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused . |
| 11 | Much of this spending went on new industrial units , schemes that might take years to implement , and for which there may have been an appropriate upper limit . |
| 12 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 13 | The committee went on to recommend ‘ some form of overall plan towards which the authority will work and against which it can measure its achievement ’ . |
| 14 | The most that could be offered would be autonomous areas within regional self-government ‘ towards which members of the respective nationalities , scattered all over the country or even all over the world , would gravitate and with which they could enter into relations and free associations ’ — some measure of accommodation to Bauerism . |
| 15 | Issuing an imperative ultimatum , which had given her no room for manoeuvre , and with which he must have known she could n't possibly have agreed , he had abruptly and swiftly left the country . |
| 16 | Why should I , or anyone , be expected to perform tasks which mean nothing to me , and into which I can put nothing of myself ? |
| 17 | This is the part of the house that visitors stand closest to and from which they will form their first impression . |
| 18 | This quality of inclusion signifies the sense of the collective that women have , and from which they can draw strength in their lives . |
| 19 | This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job . |
| 20 | This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job . |
| 21 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 22 | The only this group could admit were reforms that benefited its members : the sale of the common lands and the entailed estates of the Church , an operation that they could dominate and from which they could draw profit . |
| 23 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 24 | Writing the words in your book provides you with a ready-made store of words which you know your pupils have difficulty with , and from which you can construct a teaching programme . |
| 25 | But within a few years the Americans were using new machines , a fraction of the size , that an unskilled woman could operate for a fraction of the pay , and upon which she could spin as many stockings an hour as the Black Beauty — and without seams . |
| 26 | There are Wild Water Rapids : a long , winding channel of agreeably-warm water , down which one is swept by gravity and the force of the current , and in which one can pretend to be in the closing scene of The Towering Inferno . |
| 27 | Town Halls need to develop electronic gateways through which all sections of the community can pass , and in which they may stand and talk to their neighbours and do business if they so wish . |
| 28 | If there was a sphere in which the authorities had a certain justification for retreating from the policy of reform ( and in which they could have afforded to act without alienating a numerically significant part of the population ) , it was that of higher education . |
| 29 | This ‘ technological ’ view of education and teaching also prevents teachers from deliberately gravitating to schools whose ideology they like , and in which they will feel comfortable . |
| 30 | Here the washerwomen find , or sometimes make , by moving some of the smaller stones , a kind of basin through which the water flows , and in which they can dip the linen . |