Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | After which they would inveigh against them as decadent while ordering more of the same for their next well-attended private screenings . |
2 | Students study three subjects in the first year , after which they may continue with one of these subjects for an honours degree . |
3 | They know that it would be almost impossible for them , even though it would be for only a week , after which they could return to their comfortable lives . |
4 | The Mondays are on their way to Japan to play a one-off show , after which they will return to the UK to begin writing new material . |
5 | In either event , mechanical or electrical , the sound impulses would have to pass through the waterproof casing , after which they must pass through the fuselage of the plane . ’ |
6 | We do not seek a quick ‘ one-off ’ sale , after which we shall disappear from your life for ever . |
7 | This will take us about three months to complete after which we will concentrate on fitting brake and lubrication gear . |
8 | Cobden-Sanderson quarrelled with Emery Walker and , through the mediation of Sydney Cockerell , came to an agreement that Cobden-Sanderson should retain the Doves type for his lifetime , after which it should pass to the younger man . |
9 | Most lenders ' discounts are for a limited period only , after which you will revert to paying the standard rate — this table provides a guide to lenders ' competitiveness , which should be taken into account when making your mortgage choice . |
10 | Tait intends to remain at his Berkshire base until the 1994 World Championships , after which he may return to his native New Zealand . |
11 | The Timeshare Act , which provides buyers with a 14-day cooling off period during which they may withdraw from a timeshare agreement , comes into effect on 12 October ( p 99 ) . |
12 | Implementation of a new Timeshare Act , which provides buyers with a 14-day ‘ cooling off ’ period during which they may withdraw from a timeshare agreement , has been announced by Consumer Affairs Minister Baroness Denton . |
13 | Although the ceremony itself was a simple one — a private exchange of shared intentions in which the most important formal element was the document which laid down precisely who got what in the case of divorce — it was nevertheless going to be used by both sets of parents as an excuse to throw a party , during which they would vie with each other in largesse , showing off their wealth as well as arranging useful introductions for their unmarried children . |
14 | But his labours were interrupted by frequent migraines , which sometimes lasted as long as three days , during which he would lie in darkness on the floor of his room , eat nothing , and demand silence from the rest of us . |
15 | It was urged that , if this construction were adopted , a solicitor would have a shorter time during which he may abstain from bringing his action for work done than the rest of Her Majesty 's subjects . |
16 | He also arranged with the school resource centre for him to have access to the library area at certain periods , during which he could relax with a book or magazine . |
17 | Nevertheless , ‘ sweat is of such a nature that it would not appear upon the skin unless pores existed through which it could pass from inside to the outside ’ . |
18 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
19 | The olive grove through which he used to walk as a boy was submerged beneath a main road and a cluster of lean-to engineering sheds even before 1948 . |
20 | If ( as he may well have done ) he thought that he was the Messiah , then his choosing of the twelve would seem to have been a symbolic action , through which he should indicate to people who he was . |
21 | In Chapters 4 and 5 we consider in more detail the writing techniques through which you can present to best effect the kinds of argument described here . |
22 | She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex . |
23 | But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural . |
24 | The level of demand is to do not only with the tasks as they are done but also with the duration for which they must continue to be done . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | O mighty soldier , O man of war , you now have a cause for which you can fight without endangering your soul … |
27 | O mighty soldier , O man of war , at last you have a cause for which you can fight without endangering your soul ; a cause in which to win is glorious and for which to die is but gain . |
28 | To register you will need a French social security number , for which you should apply to the local Caisse d'Assurance Maladie . |
29 | That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman . |
30 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |