Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] could [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He went on to say that there was nothing at all from the last decade for which he could give Mrs Thatcher credit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 8 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
| 9 | So in the last half of February Fleischmann and Pons had a detector with which they could count neutrons . |
| 10 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 11 | Without this , one can not begin to grasp the size and complexity of Charles ' achievements — such as the uncanny speed with which he could move troops across great distances . |
| 12 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 13 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 15 | William Hill make Richard Hannon 's ‘ pocket rocket ’ clear favourite for the Group Two event , in which she could face challenges from Wolfhound , Paris House and Zieten . |
| 16 | Explanation : You should write down specifically the areas in which you could see improvements ( or deterioration ) . |
| 17 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 18 | The only this group could admit were reforms that benefited its members : the sale of the common lands and the entailed estates of the Church , an operation that they could dominate and from which they could draw profit . |
| 19 | Predictably , they took the parts from which they could make money . |
| 20 | This contract was , perhaps , the only evidence from which I could deduce Helmut 's hurt . |
| 21 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |
| 22 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 23 | Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature ( before the present one ) from which he could gain enlightenment . |
| 24 | From what I could see Fairclough played as a form of sweeper with a man-to-man job in Wegerle . |
| 25 | It seems ludicrous that Scottish Back-Benchers do not even have the facility of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs to which we could summon Ministers and ask them in detail about the problems that we face . |
| 26 | One of the crucial questions emerging for the CNAA during the 1970s was in fact the extent to which it could take initiatives as well as being responsive . |
| 27 | But there were never any open words expressing the inflection , never anything to which he could raise objection . |
| 28 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 29 | Premack 's plastic tokens which Sarah , his only real success , was required to arrange in series on the magnetised slate , were designed to discover the extent to which she could make judgements about the qualities of objects ; for example , ‘ the apple is red and round ’ . |
| 30 | He knew that he still had certain assets on which he could raise cash . |