Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 2 | I hope that you will have dinner with me , but if you ca n't make it , then telephone me at my London address before Thursday lunchtime , after which date I will be on my way up north and my movements are unpredictable . |
| 3 | Had a long chat with Dad about which service we should attend . |
| 4 | Platies and other livebearers do n't pair up in the same way as cichlids do — keeping them in pairs would be a waste of time , as they 're unfussy about which partner they choose to breed with . |
| 5 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 6 | In Chapter 4 we discuss the relationship between some of these factors , and conclude that the most crucial is the pattern of decisions by the courts : not only about what sentences offenders should receive ( whether they should be sent to custody and , if so , for how long ) , but also decisions about which counts they should be tried in and whether they should be remanded in custody in the meantime . |
| 7 | Your ability to pay will not influence the decisions about which services you need . |
| 8 | There is also the option of using wild flowers , although that is only feasible if you live in or near the country , and you must be very careful about which flowers you pick — some of them are protected species . |
| 9 | But , Aptaker cautions , the company can be picky about which videos it accepts . |
| 10 | Plant nutrients are derived in the most part from the decomposition of plant and animal remains , during which process they reach a peat-like structure that has remarkable powers of moisture absorption and retention , and at the same time has considerable influence on the physical texture and structure of the soil . |
| 11 | You then have 15 seconds ' rest , during which time you must stand still . |
| 12 | All filters will require a short ‘ run-in ’ period of up to three or four weeks during which time you should keep stock and feed levels low and conduct extra partial water changes . |
| 13 | Alternatively , if you require a little time , a booking can be held on ‘ Option ’ for 24 hours during which time you must make the booking ‘ firm ’ otherwise the booking will automatically be released . |
| 14 | You re normally expected to vacate halls of residence during vacations , during which time you are not responsible for rent — unlike much of the private housing available . |
| 15 | Instead , when a week had passed , during which tune he and Jean-Paul had made one cursory visit to the Baron 's vineyards and had inspected perhaps one-eighth of that vast acreage , Edouard decided to return to the purpose of his visit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is no road going through which makes it fairly quiet and peaceful , though low flying aircraft and farm machinery make up for traffic noise . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You 'd think it might be quite relaxing , having ( effectively ) no will , and no body anyway through which to exercise it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , a firm of mechanical engineers , Hunter and English of Bow , inspected the model and reported favourably on the proposal in March 1897 , for which service they were paid 100 guineas . |
| 22 | When you have lined up your data in this way a glance will tell you for which sounds you have enough words to make check lists . |
| 23 | I have a great deal for which to thank her . |
| 24 | We now have a splendid new bypass road for which thank you very much , the only problem is that it has halved the traffic but doubled the speeds . |
| 25 | There was also the lighter side to things , like the day a high-ranking RAF officer paid us a visit from Group Headquarters , the reason for which escapes me now . |
| 26 | Concerned specifically with the issue why there is no circularity involved in a justification of deduction which employs deductive reasoning , he contrasts explaining the validity of a form of inference — for which purpose we can use any of our knowledge — with persuading someone of the correctness of a rule — which requires that we avoid circularity . |
| 27 | To be sure all this is done to create something , for which reason we can call it work and not rage . |
| 28 | For which reason we restore to you the faith of your fathers … and do ye rejoice . |
| 29 | I find it important that the ‘ ceiling ’ of the cave should be reasonably low and the entrance small , for which reason I usually use broken pots which make for smaller caves . |
| 30 | Shortly before Christmas and in the middle of correcting the proofs , he wrote to Rohde again : " The whole last part , which you do not know , will certainly astonish you ; I have been very daring , and I can cry out to myself in an altogether enormous sense , animam salvavi [ I have saved my soul ] ; for which reason I think of the book with great satisfaction and am not worried for it turns out to cause the greatest possible offence and in some quarters a " cry of outrage " greets its publication . |