Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , Aptaker cautions , the company can be picky about which videos it accepts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You 'd think it might be quite relaxing , having ( effectively ) no will , and no body anyway through which to exercise it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All of which made it impossible to explain exactly why she 'd been so upset to find , after arriving , tired and exhausted , at the large house in Lowndes Square , that she was going to see even less of Ross than she had in New York ? |
| 8 | And actually they 've got two miniature scores in the library , one of which said it was in E flat , and the other one said it was in C minor , so you pays your money and you takes your choice , erm |
| 9 | As far back as August 1965 , when James Leo Herlihy 's novel Midnight Cowboy was first published , it had done the rounds of every major studio , all of which turned it down . |
| 10 | It is closely related to a longer version extant in four manuscripts three of which assign it to him . |
| 11 | Other theories on the origin or evolution of syphilis and the other diseases caused by similar organisms suggest that different populations have their own endemic treponemal disease , be it yaws , pinta , or syphilis , the presence of which makes it hard for one of the others to establish itself . |
| 12 | All of which makes it a bargain and one I shall miss for years to come . |
| 13 | All of which makes it sound as if SunSoft is positioning Solaris to be a completely hardware-independent environment . |
| 14 | The choice of which group it is relevant to claim membership of turns on specific circumstances . |
| 15 | One system , FilePower from Optika , has icons of filing cabinets with names underneath which makes it simple to use , while others will have more recognisable fields and records . |
| 16 | The species does not seem to have any appropriate indigenous enemies against which to use it . |
| 17 | You ca n't measure any response without something against which to measure it . |
| 18 | He says it 's not knowing where you going toe nd up which makes it fun . |
| 19 | With precious little to celebrate , and even less money with which to do it , many have stopped drinking champagne altogether . |
| 20 | He is a man with something to say and an immense intellect with which to say it . |
| 21 | If the colonial culture was to go , there had to be something with which to replace it . |
| 22 | It is difficult to find another film with which to compare it ; Mr Rivette virtually hypnotises his audience . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He described pre-1914 espionage as ‘ capital sport ’ , but was given few resources with which to pursue it . |
| 25 | Equally , if someone has lost his sense of Christ 's presence , he will need more than bare historical facts with which to rediscover it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This just illustrates my point : How can we know what is real , independent of a theory or model with which to interpret it ? |