Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His agent said he was refusing to speak to the press after an incident in which he said he had been misquoted . |
| 2 | Mr Newton was shot after an incident in which he slapped Clifford 's wife . |
| 3 | After an hour in which we ambled along the ridge , balanced along its crest , climbed the pinnacles , sat on ledges and talked and shared coffee and chocolate , the cloud closed round us again . |
| 4 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 6 | When , once , he had thought himself on the brink of an alliance for which he yearned , he was suddenly and shatteringly rejected . |
| 7 | Theodora was aware of an intimacy into which it would have been impossible to intrude . |
| 8 | David Poole is hopeful for the future of an art with which he has become so closely involved . |
| 9 | Tennyson 's inaccurate account , in which Cecil marries a lowly ‘ village maiden ’ who subsequently dies very young under ‘ the burden of an honour unto which she was not born ’ , was later accepted as truth by later writers on the subject . |
| 10 | I can not believe that the Masai , as I know them , would have applied for membership of an association of which they must be completely ignorant' . |
| 11 | Marryat 's Percival Keene , writing a report to the Admiralty of an action in which he has acquitted himself well , sees his success realistically , while he is happy to acquire the reputation of a hero : |
| 12 | The statement says that where a member 's opinion is sought on the application of accounting standards or principles to specific circumstances or transactions of an entity of which he is not the auditor , he should ensure that he has access to all relevant information , he should contact the auditor to provide an opportunity for the latter to bring to his attention any relevant facts and , given his client 's permission , he should provide a copy of his opinion to the auditor . |
| 13 | I gather that in general ditches are the responsibility of Southern Water and then in some point it 'll change in but er there are areas in the county er and upon this appears to be one where the ditches adjacent to the highway are the responsibility of the , the Highway Authority , that is the County Surveyor , but it gives you an example of an area in which we responsibility of the public er find it difficult |
| 14 | To be more specific , the gene R in Figure 5 , which makes recombination possible , may have no effect at all on the survival of an organism in which it finds itself , or on the number of offspring produced ; what R can affect is only the particular kinds of genes with which it will be associated in future generations . |
| 15 | While third party analysis in the context of international organisations gives this distinction some validity , in other areas it is less significant , as it is difficult to assert that a State is completely foreign to the effects of an agreement to which it is not a party . |
| 16 | The poor citizen , bewildered by its ever-changing complexities , finds himself the victim of the muddled thinking and uncertain draftsmanship of the legislators who have multiplied words without knowledge , and must try to understand and then live with an Act of which he has suffered great difficulty and delay in obtaining a copy . |
| 17 | Much against Florence 's advice , Late Lyrics and Earlier opened with an Apology in which he expressed surprise that ‘ in these disordered years of our prematurely afflicted century ’ critics should still find fault with his ‘ frank exploration of reality ’ . |
| 18 | With the agreement of my closest colleagues and the director of the MRC 's Clinical Research Centre , Dr C. C. Booth , I provided Dr Ted Steele with an environment in which he could complete his experiments in the friendly but critical atmosphere provided by immunologists who were trying to repeat his results themselves . |
| 19 | It appeared that this setting was providing Suzy with an audience to which she gladly reacted . |
| 20 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |
| 21 | It may be that in attempting to start team teaching without the experience of preliminary resource-based and other approaches and without a great deal of shared discussion and curriculum planning some schools have plunged their staffs into an experience for which they were by no means ready . |
| 22 | Life companies have stepped into an area with which they are ill-equipped to deal , and have come unstuck , believes Lautro 's chief enforcement officer Mike Abrahams . |
| 23 | In Abraham 's opinion , the life companies have stepped into an area with which they are ill-equipped to deal , and have come unstuck . |
| 24 | Do you think that perhaps in due course publishing will move into an area in which you would n't actually ever print anything , you would actually put it into a machine ? |
| 25 | Do you think that perhaps in due course publishing will move into an area in which you would n't ever actually print anything , you would actually put it into a machine . |
| 26 | After the affidavits one of Kesselring 's subordinates , a man named Krumhaar , was cross-examined about an operation in which he had had twelve men from the village of Burgo Techino shot because two of his men had been severely wounded by ‘ terrorists ’ during a parade through the town . |
| 27 | Sometimes the chairman of a committee stands down temporarily from the chair in order to express a deeply felt personal view about an issue in which he has an interest . |
| 28 | So a Pacific as defined by such minds might fall within the appropriate longitudes and latitudes , but it would be riddled with holes , a discontinuous mess , a collection of unconnected pieces of sea and land established principally to prove an argument about an entity of which they make up only a fraction . |
| 29 | If you simply switch from writing about an investigation over which you have enlisted your reader 's sympathy to scenes of home life or love life that have no connection with the main story , you will lose each time a little of your hold on the reader . |
| 30 | By ‘ accepted meaning ’ I am referring to one accepted by participants in the phenomena — it is clearly constituted for Barthes as an interpretation against which he is speaking . |