Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] which it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has spiracles along its side through which it can breathe , but it neither feeds nor excretes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | High oxygen levels are not important , for the fish has an air bladder with which it can breathe air . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | We reached an agreement with BOC under which it could provide the welding hardware that we would sell with our robots . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be . |
| 9 | Mercedes last week announced the car with which it will defend its world sportscar crown and begin preparations for an F1 assault . |
| 10 | However , BA is now expected to announce a revised partnership deal in which it would gain a 20% stake worth about $340m . |
| 11 | On 7 June an emergency meeting of the NSFU Executive was held at which Father Charles Hopkins , standing in for the absent Havelock Wilson , pointed out the disastrous financial effects which participation in such a stoppage might have on the union and the peril in which it might stand in respect of its hard won provincial settlements . |
| 12 | Cruttenden 's data also tend to confirm that congruity has a greater effect when it is paired with gender cue , which is the condition in which it would seem , a priori , to be less useful . |
| 13 | This leaves the vine curled in a heap , a condition in which it will remain until the January or February pruning when all but the one-year-old growth is either cut away or buried for advancing into new vines . |
| 14 | When ‘ PURPLE ’ has yielded to some new variation on Silk Cut 's eternal thematics , and when the airline traveller with egg on his face has faded from the public consciousness on which it will have so briefly impinged , Magritte 's images will still be there , mysterious and self-sufficient . |
| 15 | While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million . |
| 16 | The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was a public-trust authority which was becoming rapidly insolvent , yet there was no way in law in which it could go into liquidation . |
| 17 | The improved position of Congress ( I ) was of particular importance as the Lok Sabha convened on Feb. 24 for the session in which it would discuss the controversial direction of the radical anti-protectionist budget introduced on Feb. 29 by Finance Minister Manmohan Singh . |
| 18 | The 18 neighbours of an animal are the 18 different kinds of children that it can give rise to , and the 18 different kinds of parent from which it could have come , given the rules of our computer model . |
| 19 | The Trust will on occasion be faced with a Wordsworthian dilemma over the degree to which it should promote some of its more sensitive properties , but the commitment to providing welcoming access for its members and visitors is an unwavering one . |
| 20 | Holland had both a tradition of national independence to which it could look back , and important colonial possessions , but , like Belgium , was formally ‘ new ’ . |
| 21 | The government , however , was reluctant to co-operate with a US plan by which it would use some of its abundant currency reserves to tackle the Third-World debt crisis . |
| 22 | It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 . |
| 23 | A captive giraffe has a right to a cage in which it can stand straight up … |
| 24 | accept the SSR and specify the range of versions of their package to which it should refer |
| 25 | The PLO failed to secure a UN-supervised peace conference to which it would send a delegation to represent " the Palestinian people " [ see pp. 38167 ] . |
| 26 | Nor is it quite like a Papal Encyclical , or a biblical prophecy , for sociology has no basic authority of revealed truth to which it can appeal . |
| 27 | Those on board were aware that they were approaching the point at which it would have to swing east and head inevitably back to Europe . |
| 28 | The ILP leadership , feeling it had a mandate from the Easter Conference , made preparations for a Special Conference at which it would make : a recommendation for disaffiliation , and for the re-organisation of the ILP as an independent Socialist Party with a programme aiming at a decisive change from Capitalism to Socialism . |
| 29 | Moscow-based Steepler has signed an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co under which it will handle distribution of HP workstations — the Palo Alto firm 's first reseller agreement for products other than its PCs . |
| 30 | Moscow-based Steepler has signed an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co under which it will handle distribution of the HP Apollo 9000 series 700 workstations , marking the Palo Alto company 's first reseller agreement for products other than its personal computer systems — previously all workstations were sold direct by Hewlett-Packard Moscow in partnership with local software partners ; Steepler is planning to major on offering the machines for running graphics applications . |