Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the choir has a base from which they can work and now the same hills which inspired Elgar are echoing to the sound of 28 powerful Ukranian voices . |
| 2 | ‘ We adults have a sense of history , the present has a context from which we discerningly plan the future , children only have now and the future . |
| 3 | The solipsist is in the position of claiming that he has a language in which he describes his present and past experiences , and perhaps speculates about the future . |
| 4 | She may shock , or upset ; but to women she represents a power with which they want to be in touch , as their birthright , one that operates naturally in the medium of night , when all the duties of day are left behind . |
| 5 | His wife Val contributes a postscript in which she reveals , rather wanly , that she is still looking forward to her honeymoon , postponed because of a rugby match . |
| 6 | The Evangelicals usually honoured Cranmer , but Macaulay did not , writing , somewhat unfairly , ‘ The sanguinary intolerance of a man who then wavered in his Creed excites a loathing to which it is difficult to give vent without calling foul names . ’ |
| 7 | If the retailer requires a product with which he is unfamiliar , he may begin by sending a letter of enquiry to the manufacturer . |
| 8 | And although no precise mechanism for contextual retrieval has been given , the parallel with occasion setting has been noted and forms a basis on which we may build . |
| 9 | The shame of having her ‘ dirty linen ’ ritually washed in public in this way by representatives of the community is too great for the woman and she suffers a stroke from which she dies shortly afterwards . |
| 10 | ‘ It is submitted : ( i ) the judge erred in law in his ruling on count 1 ; ( ii ) for an offence to be committed under section 1(1) of the Act there does not have to be the use by the offender of one computer with intent to secure unauthorised access into another computer ; ( iii ) there is no ambiguity in the wording of section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act which clearly refers to an intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( iv ) section 17(2) and ( 3 ) are applicable to the alleged actions of the respondent in this case ; ( v ) the Act has been drafted so as to deal with the person who misuses a computer to which he has direct ( but unauthorised ) access , as well as a computer into which he is able to secure indirect access by operating another computer . ’ |
| 11 | But the apogee of imaginative anti-Nazism comes in Let George Do It ( 1940 , To Hell with Hitler in US ) , when George Formby , who otherwise divides his time between playing his ukulele and trying to crack the code a bandleader is using to broadcast messages to the Germans , dreams a sequence in which he flies over Berlin in a Zeppelin , lands at a Nuremberg rally and challenges the Führer himself , ‘ You , Adolf , put a sock in it . ’ |
| 12 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 13 | On the other hand opposition , in a Parliament organized strictly on party lines , implies a situation in which it is very hard to secure majority support for your own ideas . |
| 14 | Vogel 's book entitled Japan As Number One ( 1979 ) is the epitome of this trend , as he sets a scenario in which he not only predicts that the Japanese economy will be the biggest in the world before the end of the century , but also that Japanese society should henceforth be the model for post-industrial societies . |
| 15 | With inflation running at 600% , it remains a market in which it is all too easy to get lost . |
| 16 | But what is one to make of a solemn pronouncement in a Companies Act that ‘ an insurance company which contravenes a restriction to which it is subject by virtue of subsections ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ’ ? |
| 17 | The Managing Director makes a statement in which he adopts the position already put forward by his colleague , who meanwhile supports the various assertions with evidence . |
| 18 | Deanna Petherbridge 's controversial ‘ re-hand ’ of the Hayward Gallery 's Gravity and Grace sculpture show begins a series in which we will be looking at mainstream exhibitions , exhibitions which often exclude women . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , a basically sound plan provides a framework on which you can build and progress in the light of experience and changing conditions . |
| 20 | The model described in the last section provides a framework within which we can examine the effect of the government on the long-run development of wealth-holding . |
| 21 | said ‘ This award provides a standard by which you can gauge yourself , and gives you a means by which quality can be improved . ’ |
| 22 | Insider dealing provides a route by which they may do so . |
| 23 | This special report provides a base from which we can develop our health , safety and environmental service into the next century . |
| 24 | That 's good news in itself , but it 's also good in that it provides a bedrock on which we can build sustainable recovery of output and and job creation . |
| 25 | The choice is based on the health/vitality level , degree of pathology , suppression , sensitivity etc. and provides a variable on which we can individualize . |
| 26 | The present convention is long established and provides a basis on which we can stand . |