Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] could [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 2 | Nor did he raise one word about the history of his own great movement , about the fact that the working people of this country were urged to organise and to use their vote , through which they could change the policies under which they lived . |
| 3 | There was frequently a hair-tidy of the same design on the dressing-table , a little dish with a lid , and a hole through which one could push the hair that came out on the comb . |
| 4 | At the end was an opening , now almost closed by the crowding trees and bushes , through which one could see the glimmer of the sea and the northernmost hill of the broch islet . |
| 5 | To his right was a high sunny window , through which you could see the high green leaves of St James 's Square . |
| 6 | Now and again , however , we caught glimpses of its Templar past : black Beauce crosses printed on the walls which the passage of time had not faded ; old arrow slits through which you could glimpse the snowy fields beyond ; small gargoyles , some depicting wyverns or dragons , others the faces of long-dead knights . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 12 | Edwin Garland felt uneasy , a vague shapeless unease for which he could find no immediate cause . |
| 13 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 14 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 15 | At the end , through an open doorway , she glimpsed a bedroom , richly hung in peach-toned fabrics , expanded by yet more mirrors in one of which she could see the reflection of a large oil painting . |
| 16 | Repressing it , on the other hand , would mean existing in a drab , twilight world of pretended affections out of which I could see no escape . |
| 17 | He saluted the coach and we drove through the gates and up a hill past the enormous parade ground at the far end of which I could see the Monument aux-Morts , the memorial to every dead legionnaire . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | From morning to dusk on all days except the Sabbath , he was out in the marketplace among the other merchants trading in any commodity with which he could make a profit , including money itself . |
| 20 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 21 | with which he could banish the world . |
| 22 | The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians . |
| 23 | When it met after the Conference it set up a subcommittee to draft acceptable Standing Orders with which it could approach the Labour Party National Executive . |
| 24 | The two brain regions are quite small — dissected out , each weighs no more than a couple of milligrams — and Andras invented a special plastic mould into which we could drop the brain , slice slabs out with a razor blade and then use a fine scalpel to cut round the regions , guiding the dissection under a microscope . |
| 25 | We reached an agreement with BOC under which it could provide the welding hardware that we would sell with our robots . |
| 26 | As Le Cerf 's use of the terms ton and mode is somewhat confused this was perhaps exactly what he had in mind ; certainly his contemporary Michel de Saint Lambert was employing ton in the sense of a tonic upon which one could build a piece that was in either the major or minor mode . |
| 27 | First , there were the blue-blooded man-about-town types who had perhaps not — generally speaking — enjoyed the greatest success in their commercial and professional careers , who were restless , and saw executive search as an institutionalised old-boy network , in which they could make the most of their old contacts and make money without the need for major capital investment , and who misguidedly thought that it would be an easy living . |
| 28 | For others it provided a safe environment in which they could recognise the insecurities that were messing up their lives . |
| 29 | It does nothing to promote an honest public debate , in which we could examine a wide range of factors — including the present uses and abuses of VAT by the Government and many others — and then arrive at some morally-decent decision . |
| 30 | We found a way in which we could help the black community directly and in the most positive way with considerable sums . |