Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] which [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " 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 | Thirdly , the obligation to pay loan interest on the due dates creates an immediate debt between the company and the loan stock holder for which he can sue , whereas a preference dividend does not become a debt until it is declared and due . |
| 3 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 4 | While this spared the Bush Administration from the perils of thinking for itself , or heaven forbid , taking a policy decision for which it might get criticised , it naively ignored the danger that Bonn might have a large axe of its own to grind . |
| 5 | As soon as it is over and both males are exhausted they have a brief opportunity during which they can launch an attack and win the harem from both of them , and this has been seen to happen . |
| 6 | What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year . |
| 9 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 10 | It has spiracles along its side through which it can breathe , but it neither feeds nor excretes . |
| 11 | Gripping the hammer in one fist and propping the hatch up with her free hand , she crouched low so that she had about an inch gap through which she could see the back door . |
| 12 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 13 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 14 | Write Ellen and by express even telegram for which I will pay in order that I might have the relief of knowing you have understood and all is clear . |
| 15 | One of the key benefits of the move will be to give Enterprise Training access to a professional marketing department through which it can promote awareness of its services to employers . |
| 16 | I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city . |
| 17 | And all this merely supplements and whets the appetite for the serious nourishment of hot dogs and beer , in search of which you must leave your seat and descend below the stands . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State may receive representations in the light of which he may decide to require a particular application to be referred to him for decision . |
| 19 | This was our ‘ Marche Képi Blanc ’ , on completion of which we would have passed the tests to become legionnaires . |
| 20 | Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | High oxygen levels are not important , for the fish has an air bladder with which it can breathe air . |
| 23 | It is offering its 3,000 employees over the age of 50 a voluntary early retirement programme under which they will get full retirement benefits and a year and a half of extra pay if they leave the company and start their own companies in businesses related to IBM . |
| 24 | You 'll receive a distinctive personalised Club card with which you can claim you Air Miles at participating Shell Stations . |
| 25 | Thus in this linking process , the teacher requires flexibility to help pupils build links at a speed with which they can cope . |
| 26 | Without this , one can not begin to grasp the size and complexity of Charles ' achievements — such as the uncanny speed with which he could move troops across great distances . |
| 27 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 28 | Proud of the speed with which it can run Windows 3.1 applications on Sparc systems using its SunPC hardware and software combination , SunSelect vice president and general manager Carl Ledbetter could still not resist speculating that future technology for running PC applications from Sun would ‘ go way beyond the current generation , without the need for a card ’ . |
| 29 | We reached an agreement with BOC under which it could provide the welding hardware that we would sell with our robots . |
| 30 | Novell Inc has followed its move to take over Unix System Laboratories Inc with the purchase of a 20% shareholding in object-oriented software specialist HyperDesk Corp to seal a deal under which it will use the Westborough , Massachusetts company 's Distributed Object Management System to provide an object-based interface to services and resources within the NetWare environment . |