Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the occupier then asks them to leave , they must be allowed a reasonable time to leave , after which they will become trespassers . |
| 2 | The treaty was scheduled to be signed in February 1992 , after which it would require ratification by the 12 national parliaments . |
| 3 | The parties should agree a period of time during which they can continue negotiations and the investors can undertake investigations without fear that the target may be sold to a third party . |
| 4 | The processes through which we can see texts functioning within a social and cultural context are problematic . |
| 5 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 6 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 7 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The imposition of colonial rule by the metropolitan bourgeoisie requires the creation of a state apparatus ‘ through which it can exercise dominion over all the indigenous social classes in the colony ’ . |
| 10 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 11 | I am the carbuncle of the sun , the most noble purified earth , through which you may change copper , iron , tin and lead into gold . |
| 12 | The spider may wait for developments sitting in the centre of the web or she may retreat to the side and lurk there with one of her eight legs resting on a cue-line through which she will feel movements in the trap . |
| 13 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 14 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 15 | Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules , for which they would punish disobedience . |
| 16 | LWT 's managers will end up with between 5 and 15 per cent of the new company depending on the performance in the interim , for which they will pay £3m — £700,000 in cash and £2.3m in forgone share options . |
| 17 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 18 | The Tories have much for which they should seek forgiveness . |
| 19 | The manner in which the Prime Minister had handled the Westland issue within the Cabinet system , Mr Heseltine told the world 's press , was ‘ not a proper way to carry on government and ultimately not an approach for which I can share responsibility ’ . |
| 20 | Knowing general family traits provided a good starting point and from assorted references I began to get an idea of the species I could hope to find myself and those for which I 'd need help . |
| 21 | If you succeed in finding another job , or already have one lined up at the time that you go , it may not be worth suing your employer because the losses for which you could claim reimbursement may be minimal . |
| 22 | Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study . |
| 23 | While Eh ? was still running , Dustin signed to star in the low-budget Italian-Spanish Madigan 's Millions ( El Testamento de Madigan/Un Dollaro per 7 Vigliacchi ) to be shot in Rome from April 1967 , for which he would receive $5000 . |
| 24 | These are the not-books for which he must take responsibility . |
| 25 | He went on to say that there was nothing at all from the last decade for which he could give Mrs Thatcher credit . |
| 26 | Even granting the absurdity of Hitler 's racialist theories , it would be possible to credit him with realistic goals ( to exploit a political scapegoat , to depopulate Eastern Europe for resettlement ) for which he could massacre Jews and Slavs in as full awareness as theirs when they flee or fight . |
| 27 | In more realistic conditions , however , managers are faced with a complex series of questions in the resolution of which they must exercise choice , for example , about plant location , production methods , employment levels , output , advertising , investment , research and development , and so on . |
| 28 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 29 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 30 | The value of the ethological study of apes , monkeys and baboons is what it tells us about apes , monkeys and baboons ; only in very special circumstances , and in a very tentative way , should it be seen as a metaphorical alternative by means of which we can study man himself , as in a mirror . |