Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel . |
| 2 | Insider dealing provides a route by which they may do so . |
| 3 | So the choir has a base from which they can work and now the same hills which inspired Elgar are echoing to the sound of 28 powerful Ukranian voices . |
| 4 | This special report provides a base from which we can develop our health , safety and environmental service into the next century . |
| 5 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 6 | As Ferrini laments , this is a case in which we must be content to practise the ars nesciendi . |
| 7 | ‘ How is Kathleen ? ’ she asked , to give herself some time and in an effort to restore the conversation to a level on which she could cope . |
| 8 | In the end there has to be a limit , there has to be a level beyond which you can not go without people cracking under the strain , without people saying I 'm now doing the job that was done by two people , two and half people a few years ago . |
| 9 | In general , from 1450 onwards , non-European Christians were taught theology to a level at which they might function as parish priests , but they were not admitted to the religious orders such as the Jesuits and the Dominicans . |
| 10 | Wild animals are used for food but at a level at which they can still reproduce a similar surplus a year later . |
| 11 | The first-year course is designed to take students from scratch to a level at which they can cope with simple Sanskrit texts ( the two texts studied in the first year are the Pancatantra , an ancient collection of humorous fables , and the Bhagavad Gita , the most revered of Hindu religious texts ) . |
| 12 | While you must consistently keep your voice at a level at which it can be easily heard , you should try to put expression into it , avoiding a dull monotone . |
| 13 | I mean there 's no doubt that in human terms that child needs that fifty pence more than you do , but we do n't because I mean there 's a level in which we ca n't because we have to somehow psychologically protect ourselves , and I believe we do do that by convincing ourselves that somehow people out there are not people in the same way that we are . |
| 14 | However , this is a direction in which we would already have been moving for other reasons , and the installation of a digital telephone exchange for the provision of extra lines to our new accommodation will greatly facilitate the process . |
| 15 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 16 | It is our intention to maintain a university of which you will continue to be proud . |
| 17 | The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover . |
| 18 | At one level , he finally found a spiritual home , a sanctuary from which he could vent his spleen on the oppressive bourgeois institutions which had duped him . |
| 19 | Representing the Prussian general staff were the generals von Roon and von Moltke , and perhaps most importantly , Bismarck , who later described the occasion as a ‘ simple family dinner ’ , a description of which it could be said that those who believe it will believe anything . |
| 20 | As well as providing a useful way of looking at people 's response to the Earth through the physical structures which have survived , and as a way of interpreting legend , the Spectrum of Response is also a framework into which we can fit our own relationship to the landscape . |
| 21 | The citizens charter is not only a programme of new suggestions ; it is a framework under which we can produce further suggestions ourselves . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , a basically sound plan provides a framework on which you can build and progress in the light of experience and changing conditions . |
| 23 | This brings us inevitably to international law : the rules which make agreements between states binding ; the rules which seek to limit from the outside the kinds of actions which states may take in relation to each other and provide a framework within which they may negotiate . |
| 24 | At best , the CTP is a vacuous summary of these observations , a framework within which they can be gathered together . |
| 25 | The model described in the last section provides a framework within which we can examine the effect of the government on the long-run development of wealth-holding . |
| 26 | The objective here is to examine the seven most common categories of doubt and to develop a framework in which we can understand and analyse all our specific doubts . |
| 27 | This would provide a framework in which it would be possible to understand automatic processing at the tactical level . |
| 28 | A subordinate may have a responsibility for which he will be called to account by his superior ; a board of directors may have a responsibility to its shareholders ; and a government in a democracy will have a responsibility to the electorate . |
| 29 | Macbeth , short and severely to the point , is not a play onto which you can get much spin , but what we are given here is a treatment devoid of ambiguity . |
| 30 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |