Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] which [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the intellectual lead in the area of biology gradually switched to Germany in the course of the mid-century , Paris had already established the ideal framework through which to promote scientific research into animals and plants . |
| 2 | McCallen 's next outing will be the Isle of Man TT , practice for which begins next week . |
| 3 | Even when , sixteen years later in 1833 , he saw in trade unionism the instrument through which to establish industrial democracy , the change was to be painless , to steal upon the country unaware , ‘ like a thief in the night ’ . |
| 4 | The nuclear industry produces waste streams which contain a variety of radioactive metal ions , the extraction of which minimises radioactive discharges . |
| 5 | The sample , placed in a dialyser bag , is suspended in distilled or deionized water , circulation of which encourages osmotic exchange of the salts over a period of several days . |
| 6 | For Greece , as for Germany and one other country in the NATO alliance , the cold war had shut a long border on the other side of which lay once-familiar territory . |
| 7 | every three-wheeled motor cycle , the unladen weight of which exceeds 255 kilograms and which was manufactured on or after March I , 1970 and first used on or after September 1 , 1970 . |
| 8 | The Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) emphasised in stronger terms the problems associated with financial change and maintained that it is impossible to define money , because there is no clear criterion with which to determine those assets that are part of the money supply . |
| 9 | Of her future home , she had a picture of a magnificent pillared entrance round which grew all manner of flowering creepers and vines ; through heavy double doors she could glimpse high-ceilinged halls , cool from the heat of the sun , tables groaning with subtropical fruits , and everywhere ornaments , paintings and reliquaries of inestimable value . |
| 10 | The banks of the Susquehannah lay out of reach as a setting in which to realize this vision ; the streams which flowed from the Quantock Hills passed through a landscape which had already begun to seem hardly less desirable . |
| 11 | But doing so takes time , so there will still be a gap in which to organise orderly realignments . |
| 12 | At a time when Portugal was still living under a dictatorship in which homespun nationalist values were lauded , she was criticised for lavishing large budgets on a series of international music festivals . |
| 13 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 14 | The kind of history in which later knowledge is made the yardstick by which to judge earlier theories is now widely recognized as profoundly unhistorical . |
| 15 | The Plough has 27 bedrooms , the majority of which have private facilities . |
| 16 | The natural world is also populated with a vast array of mara ’ — ‘ they that kill us ’ — the vast majority of which harbour malevolent intentions toward human beings . |
| 17 | Mystics are overwhelmed by a consciousness that there is a dimension beyond that of time , experience of which brings such certainty of fulfilling joy , such transfiguring of the material order , that the only possible priorities for existence in time can be to find a way of life that will allow access to this dimension . |
| 18 | Banbury offered a bright and clear window through which to view national developments across the 1960s , and into the 1970s . |
| 19 | The persuasive power of the Francoist propaganda machine was great , particularly in the absence of alternative , uncontrolled sources of inform- ation with which to contrast official messages and put them into perspective . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , this does not address the question in which cases such service is required ; it does not , read strictly , touch those provisions of the law of the state of origin which allow valid service by notification au parquet or , for that matter , affixing the document to the courthouse door . |
| 21 | The office was a large room on the first floor equipped with a desk on which perched three phones in different colours . |
| 22 | ‘ If we find ourselves , as we did , unable to campaign , to argue , to debate on the great issues of economic policy , we are left with a very narrow terrain on which to fight economic issues . |
| 23 | If we find ourselves , as we did , unable to campaign , to argue , to debate on the great issues of economic policy , we were left with a very narrow terrain on which to fight economic issues . |
| 24 | They convened Days of Truce at which to reach mutual agreement on ‘ clearing ’ bills against the accused ( that is , finding them not guilty ) , or ‘ fyling ’ them ( ‘ fouling' or finding them guilty ) . |
| 25 | Suddenly , hideously , the world had become a mask — a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world . |
| 26 | This forms a base against which to compare future progress . |
| 27 | The findings suggest that the period during which developed human society has flourished may be a time of unusual stability . |
| 28 | Even greater difficulty is found with the extensive facilities for discovery provided for in many United States jurisdictions , the intrusive nature of which presents another ground for serious concern . |
| 29 | Serious eaters look at the red Michelin Benelux guide , which lists about 25 restaurants in the centre , a handful of which have one star . |
| 30 | The ‘ Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation ’ was yet another pillar of the establishment behind which lurked fifth columnists . |