Example sentences of "[prep] which many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything , TV should enhance the value of those unspoken moments so rendingly charted in this production , and it will preserve three near-definitive performances which too few people were able to see last year either at Stratford or the Young Vic : operate singer White 's sweet-faced Moor , shiningly simple acting about which many London critics were unduly patronising ; McKellen 's sweaty and furious Iago ; and Zoe Wanamaker 's unforgettable Emilia , a belated voice of conscience and wisdom in a household destroyed by passion . |
| 2 | This is a matter about which many sociolinguists feel sensitive , particularly since a large proportion of the communities which they study are repressed indigenous groups like the Aborigines , or underprivileged ethnic minorities like the American blacks or British Asians . |
| 3 | But race was the subject about which many party activists felt most strongly . |
| 4 | Governments operate in the world of real time during which many elements can change , as against the economist 's world of rational time and ceteris paribus . |
| 5 | A struggle ensued , during which many blows were struck . |
| 6 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 7 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 8 | … neglect of the occupational culture of teachers … has led us to underestimate the significance of the teachers ' culture as a medium through which many innovations and reforms must pass ; yet in that passage they frequently become shaped , transformed or resisted in ways that were unintended and unanticipated . |
| 9 | Against the backdrop of mothers ' health responsibilities , it suggests that budgeting strategies represent the everyday routines through which many mothers seek to reconcile financial commitments with health needs . |
| 10 | Through Santa Cruz and on towards San Francisco , whose sky-scraper-stacked skyline stands out as a silent rebuke to the Manhattanisation of the city , for which many residents blame ex-mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein . |
| 11 | Microbreweries across the country reproduce the rich textures of English , German , Belgian and Czech beers for which many Americans have acquired a taste . |
| 12 | For which many thanks . |
| 13 | Those whom it has encouraged are the likes of Saddam Hussein , who are fundamentally correct in claiming a link between the two occupations — hardly a flattering analogy but one for which many people may be about to pay for America 's 30 years of pusillanimity in the Middle East . |
| 14 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 15 | Even more importantly it showed that millions of electors could be made to take a stand in favour of the League of Nations , towards which many Conservatives were cynical or even hostile . |
| 16 | Up to this point in our considerations the informational process may seem to have been followed of which many youngsters complain : they are told that " Mummy 's egg " is livened by " Daddy 's seed " but not how Daddy 's seed got there in the first place ! |
| 17 | The localized ‘ inferior balances ’ — between Sweden and Denmark in the Baltic , between France and the Habsburgs in Germany and Italy — in terms of which many writers and politicians had hitherto thought , were becoming merged in a general balance which covered the whole continent . |
| 18 | In April 1982 , a Task Force of warships and marines set sail from British ports to dispute with a tin-pot dictatorship the ownership of a territory on the other side of the world , of which many Britons had never before heard . |
| 19 | Its parents are the European Aster amellus , of which many varieties are grown in gardens , and the Himalayan A. thomsonii , usually represented in British gardens by the dwarf form ‘ Nanus ’ . |
| 20 | The kinds of theorisation of classes discussed in Chapter 2 , theorisations concerned with demarcating the working class and the new middle class/ new petty bourgeoisie on Marxist criteria , do not address the problem of assessing the importance of the ‘ classes ’ ( broad collectivities , in my terms ) which are taken to exist in particular social formations — the ‘ classes ’ which are ( more or less consistently ) recognised by the people as such , and to one or other of which many people regard themselves as belonging . |
| 21 | As we saw , permissive trends in today 's culture are in part derived from a one-sided and shallow apprehension of Freudian ideas ; but in my view the situation has not been improved by one major distortion of Freud 's thinking of which many analysts and nearly all writers in the social sciences who have used psychoanalytic ideas have been guilty . |
| 22 | It is this situation with which many women are faced . |
| 23 | They are appropriate for some of the very regular peaks which occur in the retailing sector , but are highly inappropriate for the uncertainty with which many manufacturing organisations are having to cope . |
| 24 | Talking of ‘ inflation ’ — a neat theoretical idea of exponential growth in the early history of the universe that disposed of a lot of problems in the marriage between theoretical physics and cosmology — he refuses to subscribe to the overwhelming enthusiasm with which many scientists discuss the subject : |
| 25 | THERE are elements in the Murray committee 's report on the future structure of county cricket with which many people will disagree . |
| 26 | Glancing through a book I wrote for the Daily Telegraph in 1970 , I was struck by the gloom with which many men and women — but especially men — viewed the prospect of what could be their happiest and most satisfying years . |
| 27 | For example , while the newcomers may fail to understand the skill and local status of the farm worker , they do not wish to treat him as a social outcast — this would run counter to the notion of community with which many newcomers strongly identify . |
| 28 | There was Britain — the country with which Iran had the longest association and with which many Iranians had an almost neurotic relationship . |
| 29 | Next , it underlined the dismay with which many observers viewed the prospect of direct superpower involvement in Gulf affairs . |
| 30 | While the Christian spirit with which many view criminals is admirable ( turning cheeks , emptying pockets of stones , getting social work reports ) and results in increased appreciation of why so many succumb to crime , it is not nearly the whole story . |