Example sentences of "[prep] which [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it . |
| 2 | If meditation means achieving a state in which stress is reduced — which I believe to be the case — a state in which the self-healing processes of the body may be encouraged , then there may be many channels through which to achieve it . |
| 3 | You 'd think it might be quite relaxing , having ( effectively ) no will , and no body anyway through which to exercise it . |
| 4 | The opening of a poem is obviously important because there is no previous discourse through which to interpret it except for the title , but this is not precise enough to enable us to assign the proper indexical meaning to the deictic elements and terms . |
| 5 | The species does not seem to have any appropriate indigenous enemies against which to use it . |
| 6 | You ca n't measure any response without something against which to measure it . |
| 7 | With precious little to celebrate , and even less money with which to do it , many have stopped drinking champagne altogether . |
| 8 | He is a man with something to say and an immense intellect with which to say it . |
| 9 | If the colonial culture was to go , there had to be something with which to replace it . |
| 10 | It is difficult to find another film with which to compare it ; Mr Rivette virtually hypnotises his audience . |
| 11 | I consider the most likely candidate for forgery is therefore an unknown cylinder or an unknown acetate disc — in other words , a one-off , which would be difficult to compare with the genuine article , because there would be nothing with which to compare it . |
| 12 | He described pre-1914 espionage as ‘ capital sport ’ , but was given few resources with which to pursue it . |
| 13 | Equally , if someone has lost his sense of Christ 's presence , he will need more than bare historical facts with which to rediscover it . |
| 14 | Once Quote for the Day has been unpacked , it 's on the hard disk , but I have n't got an icon with which to run it . |
| 15 | The UK Committee on the Safety of Medicines regularly provides General Practitioners with questionnaires with which to inform it of any irregularities encountered in the use of new , but already licensed , drugs . |
| 16 | Where desire has been returned to us , it is in the shape of a ‘ masculine ’ libido which fits us very badly , and even then we have no vocabulary with which to express it . |
| 17 | The first summer of John James ' control saw the company with neither cloth to make up winter clothes nor money with which to buy it . |
| 18 | This just illustrates my point : How can we know what is real , independent of a theory or model with which to interpret it ? |
| 19 | If you like , a different heading under which to do it . |
| 20 | The results should provide both a critical guide to the existing literature and a coherent framework within which to interpret it . |
| 21 | There will be a great deal of evidence , from the valuation office and market prices in the area , upon which to test it . |
| 22 | And that means I 've got ta have the information upon which to run it . |
| 23 | By 1899 he had completed and tested a 4-hp engine weighing only 40 lb. and had built a triplane in which to mount it . |
| 24 | There was a lot of sense to this , with little point in earning more real income if there was no time available in which to spend it . |
| 25 | Er we 've got one month in which to do it basically erm so what I would suggest is that the officers of the three unions represented here apply for paid release first of all to or , presumably it will be Geoff the Chief Personnel Officer . |
| 26 | Faced with this situation , but without any brief to involve themselves in working with the teacher to modify aspects of the curriculum for the class as a whole , nor indeed with any time in which to do it , support teachers are powerless to take action to improve the effectiveness of their work . |
| 27 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
| 28 | No doubt they would find new and disgusting ways in which to do it . |
| 29 | If you and the father have n't decided on a Christian name you have just six weeks in which to do it . ’ |
| 30 | And the person perfecting his plans in Oxford , the person who had taken possession of the red Cavalier , that person had plenty to do , and precious little time in which to do it — to do it in Oxford . |