Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] which they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 2 | If the Government had listened to the police and taken prompt action on any of those warnings — action for which they could have secured all-party support — I have no doubt that some of this summer 's tragedies would have been avoided . |
| 3 | It should be made clear that the value of this information for consumers would be chiefly as a yardstick against which they could measure the rates offered to them by lenders of the same type , or for credit of the same type . |
| 4 | Many schools of thought flourished , each within its own professional environment , while others withered away , unable to find a niche within which they could develop . |
| 5 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 6 | The whole scene , the bar scene , the prostitution scene , the whole sex scene was enticing , shocking and , at the same time , fascinating but , above all , it was new , and they had no frame of reference with which they could measure it , ’ says Ed Behr . |
| 7 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 8 | Venetian diplomats were likely to demand every ceremonial honour to which they could assert any shred of claim , and to be very touchy when faced with any apparent threat , however slight , to their status . |
| 9 | Too many people , she said , had used AIDS as an issue to which they could add their own prejudices . |
| 10 | But Phoenician traders were notorious for their shady dealings around the Mediterranean and if there was a precious commodity for which they could find a ready market , nothing could stop them . |
| 11 | But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need . |
| 12 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
| 13 | They could not easily have found any other body with which they could compare themselves , and in any case the House of Commons of the 1620s was itself not very important . |
| 14 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 15 | His idea was to set up a self-contained base inland from the coastal plain from which they could raid on an almost nightly basis . |
| 16 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 17 | Laura had learned , from the antique dress in the window of Gwalia House , the pulling power of a loss leader and she was not above producing one sample dress , never intended for general distribution , for the press , always hungry for a fashion article around which they could build a story . |
| 18 | This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace . |
| 19 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 20 | For others it provided a safe environment in which they could recognise the insecurities that were messing up their lives . |
| 21 | For a great many women artists , Surrealism gave them an invaluable springboard into their own imaginations , but it did not provide an environment in which they could flourish . |
| 22 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 23 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 24 | In 1686 they declared war on him in order to establish a separate company state from which they could trade . |
| 25 | There was silence during which they could hear singing coming from the street . |
| 26 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 27 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 28 | Accordingly , peasant aspirations remained firmly fixed on the one panacea of which they could conceive : the land of the nobility . |
| 29 | Their strength was in their mobility , and in the contemptuous austerity with which they could discard their meagre establishments and take to the hills with their real possessions , their liberty , their horses and cattle , their tribal loyalty and their weapons . |
| 30 | They had employment merely for one year and no chance of employment in which they could make long-term plans for buying a house , for retiring and so on . |