Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did some circuit training and finished off with a quick game of indoor football in which I scored twice in my team 's three-one win . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In his article today , headed ‘ Foul language ’ ( Lifestyle ) , Brian Pendreigh raises an issue of crucial importance in our society : the desire of some individuals to censor the publication of political opinions with which they disagree . |
| 4 | This , in brief , is the framework of political calculation within which I have found it useful to investigate the idea of investment planning as a means of appropriating within socialist argument the changing structure of capitalist property in Britain . |
| 5 | This leads to a famous metaphor which comprises for many among the non-political the sole sliver of political theory of which they acknowledge possession , namely Pareto 's distinction between lions ' and ‘ foxes ’ in ruling elites : |
| 6 | France had given ‘ due importance to the kind of rural traditions without which it would be impossible to enjoy a way of life that recognises the importance of elements in our lives which enrich and enoble us , but which are not ‘ cost-effective ’ in strictly economic terms . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Bernard Staite , boss of the consortium who operate the loco , commented : ‘ From November No 4472 will embark on a year long tour of private railways after which she will have a major overhaul . |
| 8 | There is no such thing as an international patent , so it is essential to register a product under the laws of each country in which it will be sold . |
| 9 | The endemic Hong Kong cascade frog has evolved suction pads on the end of each toe with which it can cling to the slippery rocks when the flash-floods strike . |
| 10 | Hull has found that a reasonable measure appears to be the ‘ borda ’ count , which is a sum of the distance of a particular word from the bottom of each ranking in which it occurs . |
| 11 | Surely , the lowest level of coordinated action at which we could seriously confront this question is that of the European Community ? |
| 12 | US business appears to have been locked into a pattern of low accumulation from which it proved difficult to escape even when the rising tide of competition began , in the sixties , to have a noticeable effect in the domestic US market . |
| 13 | The innocence of the encounter , and the sharp pitch of emotional stress to which it had brought him , were significant factors in Vincent 's response . |
| 14 | Men may , for example , both see themselves as ‘ stronger ’ than women and tend to see women as more weak and passive , but also see women as having a power over them that can seem to engulf the man in forms of emotional dependence by which he may feel threatened . |
| 15 | Thus this choice reaction time can be described by RT = 377 * log2N where N is the number of possible values from which we are required to choose . |
| 16 | Corporate members may only participate in elections of that branch to which they are attached . |
| 17 | In Gaddis Smith 's account this is something which happened in 1950 and there was , as will be seen , a cluster of commitments round about April and May of that year from which it would be difficult to turn back ; although another of Acheson 's biographers has argued that , contrary to what revisionist historians say , Acheson 's Indo-China policy did not make future American military involvement inevitable . |
| 18 | I 've read accounts of that incident in which I was supposed to have smashed everything up in his room . |
| 19 | And I can tell you this : I 'm amazed at your new modern outlook ; I 've always known you to be as strait-laced as a Victorian corset and sticking to the narrow principles of that time in which you were brought up . |
| 20 | The combination of boogification with romantic lyricism in ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ — one element deriving from established Tin Pan Alley technique , the other from the black American subculture — produces a style already , at this early stage in Elvis 's career , teetering on the edge of that melodrama into which he was so often to fall . |
| 21 | Pink-eyed and lachrymose , I returned to the lens boutique in the Earls Court Road ( on the cornea actually ) and complained bitterly that the lenses were a pair of over-priced disasters through which I could neither see nor play Neil Simon . |
| 22 | Pink-eyed and lachrymose , I returned to the lens boutique in the Earls Court Road ( on the cornea , actually ) and complained bitterly that the lenses were a pair of over-priced disasters through which I could neither see nor play Neil Simon . |
| 23 | Its difference from simple empirical generalization is that whereas this former extends its local names to a variety of historical situations to which they may be only partly appropriate , this latter , theoreticist tendency extends its presumptive interpretations and categories in what is always , essentially , a search for illustrative instances . |
| 24 | Not only would their number have to be increased but they would also need to undergo years of specialized training for which they would expect a commensurate reward . |
| 25 | He wanted to make another attempt at the kind of theatrical work with which he had experimented in Sweeney Agonistes — a verse drama but one in which the verse seems the natural expression of modern life , and which is able in a heightened or symbolic context to employ the tones and inflections of ordinary , contemporary speech . |
| 26 | The consequences of starvation depend on the type of dietary deficiency from which it arises . |
| 27 | Er so if you look at their smoking erm people can fill in a kind of smoking chart in which you look at that . |
| 28 | Age at menarche , almost the only indicator of sexual maturity of which we have any historical evidence , is also sensitive to nutritional status . |
| 29 | If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 30 | It has elicited a number of interesting points on which we would do well to reflect . |