Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] is [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sensual , sexy tale — a style for which she is becoming renowned .
2 Estimating awareness no doubt raises its own problems , but at least it can be conducted in terms of the things of which one is made aware .
3 On neither score is there any universal agreement , and many would deny that the objections are well grounded , holding that they rest on over-simplifications , and that even to the degree that Barth did move in the directions suggested , he nevertheless did not fall into the extreme positions of which he is held guilty .
4 Britain 's BT has its own global offerings , Syncordia and Cyclone , into which it is sinking some $100m .
5 Endometriosis is a condition in which there is functioning endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity .
6 Detectives are investigating a burglary at the Treasury , in which it is believed secret papers may have been photographed and proofs of potentially valuable coins taken ..
7 The darts , the lumps of poison and the raw materials from which it is extracted all provide a challenge for others with a taste ( figuratively speaking ) for excitement .
8 As Michael Goldman ( 1975 ) suggests , fashions in acting can be seen in terms of the varying degrees to which it is thought proper to expose the private feeling of the actor .
9 One of the major distinctions between the different approaches to language description already discussed concerns the extent to which it is deemed appropriate to regard language behaviour as being a reflection of an underlying knowledge base .
10 The purchaser is buying a collection of assets to which it is ascribing individual prices .
11 What is more difficult to predict into the middle of the next century is the proportion of the total population that this older group will constitute , because that depends upon the birth-rate , and the latter , if past experience is anything to go on , shifts unpredictably with transient social circumstances — such as the level of unemployment or whether or not there is a war — as well as with unstable social attitudes to child-bearing and the age at which it is thought suitable for women to bear children .
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