Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] which [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of other countries and movements , particularly European social democracy , provided much from which they could learn ; and the future lay in a cooperative rather than confrontational relationship between the USSR and the wider world from which both sides could benefit . |
| 2 | For , oh , how awful is the seizure of the invisible , last enemy , sitting in triumph over the body , which is all over which he can have power . ’ |
| 3 | hello there … welcome to the empty manager 's office at the Manor Ground … the desk is clear … the chair vacant who will take over from Brian Horton … we 've a competition for you tonight in which you can vote for who you want to be the new Oxford United manager … but what a weekend it 's been and Central South of course was first with the news that shook the football world … |
| 4 | hello there … welcome to the empty manager 's office at the Manor Ground … the desk is clear … the chair vacant who will take over from Brian Horton … we 've a competition for you tonight in which you can vote for who you want to be the new Oxford United manager … but what a weekend it 's been and Central South of course was first with the news that shook the football world … |
| 5 | The ski resort as such is not down in the valley at all , would that it were ; rather , it is perched to devastatingly conspicuous effect on the side of a mountain to the west , up to which you can go either by car along a new road or by cable-car from the centre of Saint-Lary . |
| 6 | The order of events was the same each year : first , the bus or train ride to whatever town The Walk was to be held in ; then being stationed somewhere from which I could see the parade . |
| 7 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 8 | Single-parent women can earn relatively little money out of which they will have to pay the expenses of child-minding . |
| 9 | Expansion , give him a little straw out of which he can make the bricks , have a couple of good stories and so on . |
| 10 | Repressing it , on the other hand , would mean existing in a drab , twilight world of pretended affections out of which I could see no escape . |
| 11 | Second , the Commission was urging that the EEC , by which it meant itself , should have an independent source of revenue out of which it could finance its own activities : the EEC was still dependent upon direct contributions from national treasuries . |
| 12 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 13 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 14 | The Norman conquerors , in attempting to establish rights to land in England , undermined indigenous oral criteria for proof of ownership , by which they as newcomers were on weaker ground than native land owners , and set up centralised , bureaucratic procedures with emphasis on written documentation , records , cross-referencing etc. over which they could exercise greater control . |
| 15 | The perfect line on to which you would tack to make the mark is called the layline . |
| 16 | This is a strip fixed with points on to which you can attach any number of bulbs that you like . |
| 17 | A man was offered an alternative plot of land with appropriate permissions , on to which he could transfer his small business , a ‘ kennels ’ . |
| 18 | However , although he says this , partly to emphasise that the truth of the matter is quite independent of the question whether we know it , it would seem reasonable to expect that , if there is a real truth here into which we might have rational insight , careful attention to just what is at issue will bring about convergence . |
| 19 | Wood is affected by liquid water in the form of rain , rivers , seas and so on with which it may come into contact but , more importantly , it is affected by the moisture vapour which is always present in the air . |
| 20 | He has created a gap downwind into which he can accelerate to start at speed , whilst those around him will still be sheeting in . |
| 21 | Even the best sailors can be swept into them , apart from which they can cause all sorts of damage to your equipment . |
| 22 | Apart from which I would think it highly unlikely that you would even get into my little car . ’ |
| 23 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 24 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 25 | Of course , there are many other tasks too for which you 'll find the Steamatic is the perfect answer . |
| 26 | One could choose a song title with a special sentimental attachment , or the frontispiece from the score of some classical music ( as shown in the photograph on the facing page ) , but there are other ideas too from which you can choose . |