Example sentences of "[noun sg] through which [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 2 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 3 | Gripping the hammer in one fist and propping the hatch up with her free hand , she crouched low so that she had about an inch gap through which she could see the back door . |
| 4 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 5 | Blake apparently broke one of the cast-iron sections of the frame , creating a space through which he could crawl , and then dropped down to the ground below , a distance of 22 feet , which was broken by the roof of a covered passageway . |
| 6 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 7 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 8 | When the DUP began , the only formal channel through which it could pursue its politics was Stormont and Paisley and Beattie were outnumbered in a very short-lived parliament . |