Example sentences of "[Wh det] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The banks of the Susquehannah lay out of reach as a setting in which to realize this vision ; the streams which flowed from the Quantock Hills passed through a landscape which had already begun to seem hardly less desirable . |
2 | Perusing my library shelves recently , in a largely fruitless search for scholarly references with which to stiffen this article , I came across some evidence supporting that contention . |
3 | ‘ I have six tournaments left in which to reach this goal . ’ |
4 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
5 | The lawn climbs a slope several yards in front of the summerhouse , and in those days , as today , four flagstones embedded into the grass served as steps by which to negotiate this climb . |
6 | Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ . |
7 | ( Rom 8 ) Not only are there the promises of Jesus himself on which to base this expectation but there is the evidence of the resurrection . |
8 | ‘ Do you have any evidence on which to base this supposition ? ’ |
9 | They concluded that , especially in relation to fluvial processes , explanations that ignore the role of human activities run the risk of eliminating one of the most significant variables and perhaps an appropriate note on which to end this chapter is their affirmation that ( Graf , Trimble , Toy and Costa , 1980 , p. 281 ) : |
10 | The body mass index is a convenient measure on which to make this judgment . |