Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we did n't arrive until nearly midnight , it was still an early call next morning for breakfast , after which came the tricky task of packing our saddle-bags . |
| 2 | Next to the Clements were the Slark family , then the Burtons , after which came the entrance to Garden Cottages . |
| 3 | The first barbers at Rome , of Sicilian origin , were said to have arrived in the city in 300 BC , after which date the Romans were clean-shaven . |
| 4 | The difference in this case is that , given the character points in fig 1.2ii there is no indication about which sequence the points were created in . |
| 5 | which needs to be deducted from the hundred and ten point two seven which gives you a re a possible alloca a possible amount of land to come forward in the structure plan period of seventy seven point six seven , off which to make the figures round properly you need to take another ten , for the retail element if that became I five land which could theoretically give you a figure of sixty seven point six seven . |
| 6 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 7 | More secure dating to 22–10/9 BC , between which dates the entire city was founded and built , has only recently been possible . |
| 8 | When fully developed ( Figs. and 48 ) they consist essentially of a pair of claspers which help to grip the female during copulation and between which lies the aedeagus . |
| 9 | These films showed that using the past as a mirror through which to view the present was an approach of limited value during wartime . |
| 10 | Nostalgia , as recently deployed in the Prime Minister 's sepia invocation of the village bakery , is just about the worst instrument through which to view the future . |
| 11 | A minority of the more sophisticated industrialists , technical experts , academics , and publicists enthusiastic about Russia 's industrialization did begin , with official support , to form organizations through which to voice the needs of industry . |
| 12 | He spent some time in Holland in the company of an Indian guru with whom he had long walks and conversations through which came the realization that he should build a new career around his two key interests : his satisfaction in working with children and his love of Art . |
| 13 | The old part of the town lay half a mile away in a shallow bowl , through which meandered the river that gave the town its name . |
| 14 | Until a Teachers ' Council is established , teachers will continue to lack the organisational structure through which to control the entry , training and practice of the members of their ‘ profession ’ . |
| 15 | If unreasonableness in its substantive sense is unnecessary as a separate head through which to control the exercise of administrative discretion , it finds company in the notion of bad faith . |
| 16 | It is worth bearing in mind that reformers chose compulsory part-time day continuation schools as the principal means through which to preach the effectiveness of the doctrine . |
| 17 | At the end of the corpus spongiosum ( through which runs the urethra ) is the glans penis which is larger than the rest of this cylinder and is the most sensitive part of the penis . |
| 18 | These gentle domestic works have much in common with paintings by Winifred Nicholson , Christopher Wood and Frances Hodgkins , through which runs the thread of nature mediated by the imagination . |
| 19 | Last year , however , California 's reform of car insurance gave banks a window through which to grab the power to sell general insurance . |
| 20 | His ancestral village and its myths were three hundred years in the past , and the clear , blue waters of the bay were a sludge of industrial effluent through which thrashed the occasional blinded seabird . |
| 21 | Ruether speaks of ‘ claiming the prophetic-liberating tradition of Biblical faith as a norm through which to criticize the Bible ’ — a golden thread approach . |
| 22 | A flame through which to drag the time ? |
| 23 | Hilton urges those who would know God to think of themselves as pilgrims to " Ierusalem-ward " set out on a journey to the centre of their own inner world : He thus brings into play resonances from the traditional Augustinian image of the City of God the desire for which activates the Christian life and from allegorical exegesis where Jerusalem signifies , morally , the soul of the faithful Christian striving for the vision of peace and , anagogically , the life of those in heaven who see God face to face . |
| 24 | They did not — and it was admittedly no part of their business to do so — inform us for which purposes the existing social services are ‘ excessive ’ ; and it may be observed that other commentators , political and non-political , though they are frequently willing to indicate social services which in their opinion are ‘ inadequate ’ , are extremely taciturn when it comes to illustrating the more obvious half of the truism with specific examples . |
| 25 | Much of it is clearly apologist , particularly that produced directly by TNCs or by public relations firms on their behalf ( for which see the analysis of Stauffer , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | The rental of each office is on a month 's licence the fee for which includes the cost of a receptionist , rates , water and electricity , heating , lighting , insurance , cleaning maintenance , security , 24-hour access and secure parking . |
| 27 | Chamberlain told MacDonald that , in such circumstances , the financial crash would come before Parliament met , and it was therefore his duty to avoid it ; for which purpose the Conservatives ( and Samuel endorsed this for the Liberals ) would give him all their support in the present government or in a " reconstructed " government . |
| 28 | At last , she reached a wall , waist-high , stone-built , below which stretched the shore , as pale as a seashell in the moonlight . |
| 29 | YOU CAN see the ninety feet high Victorian church spire of St Michael ( extreme right ) a mile away on a small hill , below which lies the unassuming village of Sutton . |
| 30 | Yanto brought the overloaded bike to a skidding halt just short of the sharply rising earth bank , the other side of which lay the muddy banks of the river . |