Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] which one [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it can be used to express requests for which one can assume willingness to comply : ( 209 ) ( She ) took me by the hand , and bidding me be of good cheer , set off with Gus in a coach , to pay a visit to those persons . |
| 2 | There were always polite formulae to which one could adhere . |
| 3 | However , in practice at present , there are certainly intermediate flows of which one might give a detailed description for one purpose and a statistical one for another . |
| 4 | For sure , ‘ Hate My Way ’ is excellent , a whiplashed stab of emotions throughout which one can shiver along to the demons cartwheeling through Kristin 's mind . |
| 5 | There are places in which one can sense the numinous , the presence of spiritual forces more easily than others . |
| 6 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 7 | There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race . |
| 8 | One makes one 's reputation , and one 's reputation enables one to achieve the conditions in which one can do good work . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , this may have slipped your notice , but patients are human beings and not machines to which one can fix tidy little labels . |
| 10 | In this post-welfare state , travellers are reminded of their duty to give up their seat to old ladies by a designated seat , post offices can not trust the customers to queue so they erect mazes through which one must wind before being served . |
| 11 | Swimming : Both resorts have small shingle beaches from which one can swim in crystal clear waters . |
| 12 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 13 | There are several ways in which one might explain why priming effects are not cross-modal . |
| 14 | There are all sorts of ways in which one can attempt to alleviate suffering but killing your son by any method , whether starvation or some quicker execution , is not among them . |
| 15 | The feeling that incomers might be a problem necessitates ways in which one can prove this and attempt to ameliorate the situation . |
| 16 | competent enough vignettes of the witty , intelligent circles in which one might expect to discover Miss Iris Murdoch , and their end result was not far removed from the sum of of [ sic ] the parts of Miss Murdoch 's own elegant conundrums . |
| 17 | Our system of government is being changed , with increasing disregard for tradition , the only unwritten rules to which one might appeal as ‘ constitutional ’ principles . |
| 18 | In September 1960 the General spoke of nation states as ‘ the only realities upon which one can build ’ and proposed to develop economic , cultural and defence co-operation through inter-governmental , not supranational , bodies . |
| 19 | Not only does Orlando explore gender issues and sexual politics , in which Swinton is interested , but it also presents a sweep of family history , with which she can identify ; the family line stretching back through time , the ancient portraits in which one can see one 's own features . |
| 20 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 21 | The main problem , however , is a methodological one , for in human development specific events to which one may wish to attribute some formative influence hardly ever occur on their own but are usually embedded in a continuing context , a whole network of associated influences . |
| 22 | The response or experience is individual , though there are canons by which one can judge its appropriateness , by which one can discriminate understanding from misunderstanding . |