Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bathroom , having been converted from the front parlour , was downstairs and backed onto a small room at the rear of the cottage in which we kept the hoover , other cleaning materials and spares of this and that , such as light bulbs and rolls of loo paper . |
| 2 | as if they were already dead , Karelius fancied , and from limbo could still hear the sounds of the battle in which they had been killed . |
| 3 | There was a broken branch half-buried in the bed of leaves around the base of the tree under which he stood . |
| 4 | When for a moment it floated into a clear patch of the sky , it turned to silver the branches and few tenacious leaves of the tree against which they now leaned . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , in view of the importance attached to judicial review , we have no knowledge of the frequency with which it is resorted to in Scotland , the matters in respect of which review is sought , or the results of applications . |
| 6 | In 1918 his stock was confiscated , but he became chairman of the cooperative to which it was assigned . |
| 7 | Everyone knows that that book is a critique of ‘ logocentrism ’ ; what is less often recalled is that the terms of the critique with which it opens announce the design of focusing attention on logocentrism 's ethnocentrism ’ which , Derrida suggests , is ‘ nothing but the most original and powerful ethnocentrism , in the process of imposing itself upon the world ’ . |
| 8 | Martin now leant his gun gently against the thick bush of the hedge behind which they were crouched and , putting his hand into the deep pocket of his overcoat , he drew out a flask , unscrewed the silver top , poured out a measure and handed it to Dick Smith , saying , ‘ It 'll stop the shivers . ’ |
| 9 | But whatever else Anselm may have learnt from Hugh of Lyons , he did not learn to accept this extension of papal sovereignty at the expense of the church for which he was himself responsible . |
| 10 | He wore a priest 's cassock and clerical collar and seemed perfectly at home in the sacristy at the back of the church to which he 'd taken me . |
| 11 | At Stoke Poges as elsewhere , ‘ the rude forefathers of the hamlet ’ had slept beside their ancestors in the shadow of the church in which they had worshipped . |
| 12 | This dark , unmanageable matter of horror and sickness is a kind of cultural noise , causing a blockage and destabilization of the codes by which we make sense of the world , make life habitable . |
| 13 | All of these were places of the gods into which he was absorbed in a continuous journey of existence for as long as eternity might last . |
| 14 | Since it can be dated radiometrically tephra provides a valuable stratigraphic marker and a means both of determining the minimum age of the landsurface on which it is deposited , and of recording the activity of particular volcanoes . |
| 15 | By lifting these and other examples out of the compelling context of the stories in which they are embedded and analysing just how they are weaved in you will probably be able to see how , in the compelling story you are contemplating , a similar device can be used . |
| 16 | One of the projects by which it sets most store is the Plants Conservation Programme , run jointly with the IUCN . |
| 17 | For further information of the availability of these awards , you should contact the Postgraduate Section of the Faculty to which you are applying . |
| 18 | On 16 October , the judge rejected the submissions and on 17 October , the appellants , together with three co-accused , changed their pleas to guilty of handling in respect of each of the transactions in which they were involved . |
| 19 | Apart from regions of mountain pasture and forest , the plains of Castile afforded a bare landscape occasionally interrupted by nondescript villages , the colour of the soil from which they arose . |
| 20 | Unlike many of the towns through which he has bribed his way in his Peugeot from the coast , this one is n't ‘ full of blood ’ . |
| 21 | They need to blend as well ; it is no good using a herb whose taste contradicts that of the dish to which it is being added . |
| 22 | In addition there is the complex constitutional position of the constable to which we shall return later . |
| 23 | Much of Hoffnung 's humour centred on the world of music , particularly the various instruments of the orchestra with which he was fascinated . |
| 24 | And they provide part of the norm against which we can evaluate our attempts at organised , careful , refined , precise expression . |
| 25 | All of these things can be found here , in an album which could well be a Bunnymen work , were it not for the absence of much of the pomposity to which they were inclined ( though , unrepentant fans will note , not all of it judging by track titles like ‘ The White Hotel ’ and ‘ Proud to Fall ’ ) . |
| 26 | Social studies on the religiousness of adults have shown a very clear correlation between what they now believe and the spiritual environment of the home in which they were brought up . |
| 27 | Day after day , the finely-tuned responses that all felines possess — to make a sudden rush towards an unsuspecting mouse , or to make a headlong flight from approaching danger — are thwarted by the peace and luxurious calm of the home in which they live . |
| 28 | Well , I 've read them pretty closely and though there 's no date or any positive indication in them of the order in which they were written , there does seem to be a progression of a sort . |
| 29 | Thirdly , Lyons points out that if one thinks of anaphora as reference to entities already established in the domain of discourse , then the ways in which they are referred to in anaphoric reference commonly make use of the order in which they were introduced by the discourse itself . |
| 30 | I 've instructed all those you wish to see to be available today , but it would be helpful if I could give them some idea of the order in which you wish to see them . ’ |