Example sentences of "[prep] which he [modal v] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , another dealer tipped off a director as to the identities of miscreants , so as to curry favour for which he might reap a tangible reward like extra leads . |
| 2 | A week later , Warren Beatty grabbed him for the role of Clyde 's brother Buck in Bonnie and Clyde , for which he would gain an Oscar nomination . |
| 3 | In 1250 it was discovered that the lands which Aubrey , a forester of fee of Whittlewood Forest , held by serjeanty in Northamptonshire , had been alienated in part , and that ‘ the serjeanty of Peter of Minton in Shropshire , for which he ought to keep the forest of Long Mynd and the hays of Bushmoor and Haycrust ’ had been ‘ alienated in part by divers parcels ’ . |
| 4 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 5 | Recent press reports disclose that Wall Street investment banker Dennis Levine , recently convicted and gaoled for insider trading , has written a book entitled Inside Out : An Insider 's Account of Wall Street for which he will receive an undisclosed , but presumably large amount of money . |
| 6 | The best solution might thus be for the centre bollard to be held in place with a padlock , for which he will have a key . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Edwin Garland felt uneasy , a vague shapeless unease for which he could find no immediate cause . |
| 9 | N. K. Sanders 's summary of the plot of the epic sets the scene : When the story begins he is in mature manhood , and superior to all other men in beauty and strength and the unsatisfied cravings of his half-divine nature , for which he can find no worthy match in love or in war ; while his daemonic energy is wearing his subjects out . |
| 10 | A Chairman shall be appointed for each meeting , at the close of which he shall name the Chairman for the one following , and the Member so named shall act in that capacity , unless the Meeting by a majority agree to some other . |
| 11 | Expansion , give him a little straw out of which he can make the bricks , have a couple of good stories and so on . |
| 12 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 15 | with which he could banish the world . |
| 16 | If a coach believes that the black sportsman he is helping to prepare is naturally endowed with the physical equipment to produce fast sprints or hard jabs , or mazy runs through defences , it will affect his judgment as to the areas of speciality into which he should channel the efforts of that sportsman . |
| 17 | As for the slogan that man is master of his fate , no doubt it has its uses in combating a fatalism which could contract still further the limits within which he can influence the spontaneous by reason and will . |
| 18 | They had come , they said , to take Klein to lunch and to have a friendly discussion about a matter in which he might have a mutual interest . |
| 19 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 20 | Moreover , he did not envisage any circumstances in which he would exercise a right to intervene . |
| 21 | In 1946 he returned and , under the sponsorship of the local government , began a new photographic project in which he would cover every aspect of life on the island . |
| 22 | He was in a position in which he would have every opportunity of gaining knowledge of the customers ' business and influence over the customers ' . |
| 23 | Even such things as the maximum angle of bank in certain configurations are specified , so once a pilot sets out on a particular flight his actions , or at least the manner in which he should fly the aeroplane , are known in precise detail . |
| 24 | Very broadly stated , it is a duty to treat the trespasser with ordinary humanity … the occupier is not at fault if he has done as much as is required of him , if he has taken reasonable steps to deter the trespasser from entering or remaining on the premises , or part of the premises , in which he will encounter a dangerous situation . |
| 25 | If the Minister wants to retain this unitary Parliament , he had better start looking at the ways in which he can secure the rights of the people affected . |
| 26 | McCoist , whose next goal will be his fiftieth of the season for Rangers and Scotland , is in the midst of the kind of run in which he can do no wrong . |
| 27 | Mr Mandela needs a ready-made negotiating structure in which he can play the decisive role that his authority requires . |
| 28 | There is no way in which he could emphasise the veracity of his testimony except by literally asserting it . |
| 29 | Johnson , however , fully aware of the likely number of biographers he might attract before and after his death , found here a biography in which he could have a say , thus not only securing his immortality , but controlling it . |
| 30 | There was no way in which he could turn a young man 's allegiance completely against his motherland in just three weeks . |