Example sentences of "the [noun] with which [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 This is partly because more is known about him , and because his drawings and those of his younger contemporary John Thorpe [ q.v. ] ( a high proportion of which are survey drawings ) are the only large personal collection from this period that still exist , but it is also because of the distinctive and remarkable character of the houses with which he can be connected .
2 The stoking , the music and the difficulty with which he could be knocked over , earned him something that even Mr Singer himself could n't buy — respect .
3 Many of these ideas using sentimental flowers take some extra thought and planning , but the end result , and the enthusiasm with which they will be received , is well worth the effort .
4 The instrument with which we shall purge our minds is the idea that I call the extended phenotype .
5 The Collector selected just two more of these pistols , a small and reliable five-barrelled pistol by Lefaucheux of Paris , which he wanted to load and give to Miriam , and the English revolving pistol by Adams , which had caused such a stir at Woolwich by its lightness and by the rapidity with which it could be loaded and fired ( up to ten times a minute had been claimed for it ) .
6 The colour left her skin , her pale face showing a deep fear at the way he was crushing her to his body , the whipcord strength of his arms and the determination of his roaming fingers giving her an idea of the violence with which he would take her .
7 All such options need to be examined for their effectiveness in reducing emissions so as to achieve air quality standards , as well as for their technical and economic feasibility , the speed with which they can be implemented , and their enforceability .
8 Earls Court made a successful return to hosting seated events last year , in a move made possible by new developments in demountable seating and the speed with which they can be constructed and dismantled .
9 Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts .
10 The slower the better , he wrote , since one of the problems is the speed with which it could all be over .
11 One advantage of computerized typesetting was the speed with which it could be learned .
12 Proud of the speed with which it can run Windows 3.1 applications on Sparc systems using its SunPC hardware and software combination , SunSelect vice president and general manager Carl Ledbetter could still not resist speculating that future technology for running PC applications from Sun would ‘ go way beyond the current generation , without the need for a card ’ .
13 Advances in computer technology have improved the possibilities for the amount of information that can be stored , the speed with which it can be retrieved , the level of sophistication of information analysis and the simulation of future possibilities .
14 Mercedes last week announced the car with which it will defend its world sportscar crown and begin preparations for an F1 assault .
15 Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’
16 In a way she hoped he had not and yet , on the other hand , she believed the news would have made his final days very happy , however heinous the deceit with which she would always have to live .
17 Our first task is to remove the uncertainties with which we can deal , and the first of those are the proposals of Mr. MacSharry .
18 The radius of the circle is determined by the reach of our fists and feet , the weapons with which we can repel unwanted guests if necessary .
19 The swiftness with which she 'd put the same question surprised him .
20 This is not surprising , given the difficulties encountered in developing them , but it does limit the ease with which we can generalize from one experiment to another or from experiments to the real world .
21 Physiological psychology presents a range of major methodological challenges , and how well we meet these challenges affects the ease with which we can interpret the experiments that we carry out .
22 This account can be illustrated by considering his analysis of how discrimination training might increase the ease with which one can distinguish burgundy from claret .
23 The ease with which one can learn a concept depends critically on the structure of the predicate p , which in turn depends on the description language .
24 One of these effects can be what Britton ( 1981 ) refers to as the phenomenon of re-enactment as an unwitting professional response to the dynamics of a child 's situation , the difficulty that exists for professionals not to re-enact — and thereby aggravate — what the child already experiences , and the ease with which they may collude with his sense of hopelessness and negative feelings .
25 The early experience suggests that for the enthusiast of language , for example , the latter approach and even the former is possible : equally too the science enthusiast in primary schools protests at the ease with which they can familiarise themselves with the process .
26 However it is equally clear that large Japanese companies do hold a powerful competitive edge because of the ease with which they can alter the balance between their own output and that of their smaller suppliers .
27 Nearly all of them lay in the Ruhr and Silesia ; those in the latter area were to become more and more important because of the ease with which they could be worked and the quality of Lower Silesian coking coal .
28 I did get the feel , however , of using the pastels on a tinted background and noted the ease with which they could be spread in different thicknesses to achieve variable effects of colour and tone .
29 And it did bring it home to me that we have got a major security problem in this building and in our other municipal buildings and quite frankly the ease with which anybody can come into this building at virtually any time of the day or evening astounds me .
30 One of the main advantages of partnership is the ease with which it may be formed .
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