Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It serves to hide the professional , that is elite , structure through which it continues to operate by assuming the mantle of the popular for itself . |
| 2 | It is true , as Mr Chedlow has stressed , that he has not got as many years before him through which he has to live with this discomfort , pain and impairment of movement . |
| 3 | To do this he must assure himself that , on the day he is nominated as a candidate , he is 21 years of age or over , a British subject or a citizen of the Irish Republic and either that his name is on the register of electors in the local government area for which he intends to stand as a candidate , or that he has resided in the area ( or , in the case of a parish or community , within three miles of the area ) for a period of one year , or that he has occupied as owner or tenant land in the area for one year , or that his principal or only place of work has been in the area for one year . |
| 4 | That will mean $3 billion-4 billion , only half of which he plans to get from further cost-cutting . |
| 5 | Energis Ltd , the new company set up by the UK National Grid Co to build and operate its proposed fibre optic trunk telecommunications network with which it wants to compete with British Telecommunications Plc and Mercury Communications Ltd , is to invest £100m on laying fibre and installing digital exchanges : System X from GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd has already been eliminated from contention , but Northern Telecom Ltd is a lead contender . |
| 6 | A great politician is a man who does not interpret the world in which he intends to act on the basis of appearances … he is a man who is capable at all times of making sense of the various motive forces which combine to produce historical events , and which when analysed provide a perspective on the future . |
| 7 | His present campaign of eloquent pleading for Corea is a manoeuvre by which he hopes to ride to power as a national hero . |