Example sentences of "[prep] which each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was far easier to assume that the islands had been stocked by the accidental transportation of small numbers of individuals from the mainland , after which each population had simply adapted to its new environment in a different way . |
| 2 | To him the childhood wedding had been something of a charade during which each character had played a part , knowing that the coming together at the end — the whole story — was not to be taken seriously . |
| 3 | External anal sphincter function was investigated by : ( 1 ) the threshold of external anal sphincter contraction ( smallest volume of rectal distension causing a phasic sphincter contraction of at least 3 mm Hg ) , ( 2 ) maximum voluntary contraction ( mean of three trials of maximum voluntary squeezing lasting for five seconds ) , and ( 3 ) squeeze duration ( length of time during which each subject could voluntarily keep a pressure rise of 10 mm Hg in the lower anal canal balloon , mean of three trials ) . |
| 4 | the oppositions between authority and freedom , self-expression and self-control , and masculinity and femininity , are among the basic conflicts around which an individual 's life develops and that they cover his responses to a wide range of logically unrelated issues … they represent some of the earliest developmental crises through which each individual in this particular culture passes : the impact of parental authority ; the demand for self-control , first physical , later verbal ; and the establishment of a satisfactory sexual identity . |
| 5 | They had grubby overalls on , and caps with protective masks , through which each gang peered at the other . |
| 6 | The package consists of a work-book and a data-set which , used together , will enable the researcher to follow worked examples for which each stage of the analysis is explained . |
| 7 | It is true that Spinoza is famous for having denied the existence of final causes in nature in the sense in which Aristotle believed in them , that is purposes for which each thing existed . |
| 8 | The chart shows the number of modules for which each student registered last session . |
| 9 | Or , more accurately , hierarchies , including those of class , race , and gender , and within each of which each subject is situated differently . |
| 10 | An author who studied the American Indian sign system used for ritual story-telling reported that the sign language of Indians , of deaf people , and of everyone else ‘ constitute one language — the gesture speech of mankind , of which each system is a dialect ’ ( Mallery , 1881 ) . |
| 11 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 12 | The more so at Augusta , the arrival of which each year seems to signal the happy end of winter hibernation . |
| 13 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 14 | Secondly , their eyes are on eternal truth , of which each party deems itself the sole defender . |
| 15 | Society for him , as for Durkheim , was an organism of which each constituent part existed to contribute to the well-being of the whole . |
| 16 | Mendel deduced , from the way in which characteristics appear in the progeny of crosses , that these characteristics were caused by ‘ factors ’ which obeyed certain rules ( for example , that there are two factors in an individual , of which each gamete receives only one , at random ) . |
| 17 | From the age of seven , weekly , termly and yearly testing in the ‘ 3Rs ’ provided a yardstick against which each child was measured . |
| 18 | Moreover , these variations were found not to be fully explained by differences in either the kind of offences with which each court had to deal , or the offenders coming before them . |
| 19 | Since the launch of our newsletter , ‘ The Botanics ’ , and the proposed issuing of a newsletter by the Friends of the RBGE , it is probably time to take stock of the total amount of news material which we are now producing , the staff effort involved , the uses to which the information is being put , and the efficiency with which each vehicle reaches its target readership . |
| 20 | The most striking aspect of the history of delinquency is the consistency with which each generation characterises the youth of the day and the way of life of twenty years previously . |
| 21 | With its demented self-referentiality , its abrupt and dreamlike transpositions of settings and the head-spinning ease with which each sketch would dovetail into its successor , Monty Python soon became a cult show , albeit achieving viewing figures to rival those of the cosiest and most conventional sitcom ; and its peculiar brand of humour , which contrived to be both anarchically delirious and quintessentially British , transferred without strain to the cinema , as witness And Now for Something Completely Different ( a portmanteau film of the best-known TV sketches ) , Monty Python and the Holy Grail , Jabberwocky , The Life of Brian , The Meaning of Life and , released only last week , Erik the Viking . |
| 22 | The seeds with which each fruit is packed pass down the banqueters ' digestive tracts unharmed and are excreted , with luck , some way away . |
| 23 | The frequency with which each item appeared in the letters was recorded . |
| 24 | The puzzling thing was that if the intensity of the light was reduced , the number of particles emitted diminished , but the speed with which each particle was emitted remained the same . |
| 25 | The incomes , employment and even capital investment policies of the public and private sectors can be co-ordinated through a mixture of sticks and carrots with which each party is able to bargain . |
| 26 | They vividly illustrate the skill with which each executive tried not to upset the other and to persuade them to change their position . |
| 27 | The proliferation index was also calculated separately for each of five compartments of equal size into which each crypt column was divided . |
| 28 | For Pie it was a sack into which each day , each hour , dropped another stone , bending the spine until it creaked . |
| 29 | At morning Sunday school every week there was a clothing club into which each child was allowed to pay threepence a week and at the end of forty-eight weeks was issued with a voucher for fourteen shillings , a very high rate of interest in those days . |
| 30 | At the same meeting an asylum convention was signed by all the members except Denmark under which each asylum case would be handled by only one member-state and thereby end the so-called " orbiting " of refugees from one country to another . |