Example sentences of "[prep] which [noun] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Molesworths had been impressed , but as they never read the various journals for which Lydia worked they were little the wiser . |
| 2 | Yet it was accepted privately within the industry that their ‘ promotional ’ pricing could be below cost in order to compete with gas ( precisely the kind of uneconomic cross-subsidy of which critics accused them ) . |
| 3 | The axiom with which America confronted them was that a government so controlled could not govern any population not represented in that Parliament . |
| 4 | Anthropologists in various parts of the world have found groups of men who have gone to remarkable lengths to modify and improve the sexual equipment with which nature endowed them . |
| 5 | A succession of rescheduling deals , known by the places — Toronto , Trinidad — in which creditors dreamt them up , have been proposed in recent years . |
| 6 | One important part of the citizens charter is not so much that it contains many individual ideas and proposals for change , but that it is intended to change the entire attitude of public servants and the way in which citizens approach them . |
| 7 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 8 | Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support . |
| 9 | Nowadays , increasingly , we try to listen to such works as Acis and Galatea and the Cecilian Ode in the form in which Handel composed them ; to hear them through the prism of the classical musical consciousness is disconcerting . |
| 10 | On a closed-string staircase , fillets between spindles may be missing , in which case replace them as necessary , nailing them in place . |
| 11 | Individuals develop a sense of worth to themselves and to others by the ways in which people treat them and their communities . |
| 12 | This will be investigated to see whether this is an optimism bias in which individuals perceive they are less vulnerable than other people to negative life events or whether this is an illusion of control bias which people overestimate their own abilities . |
| 13 | A further dimension to the externality problem concerns goods which yield external benefits from which people enjoying them can not be excluded . |
| 14 | Workers looked to the national state , over which democracy gave them some influence , to protect them against the ravages of an unregulated world economy . |
| 15 | It is likely that the protein/fibre ratios for mature leaves represent the degree to which colobines avoid them and rely on more limited and seasonal resources with a concomitant decrease in population density notably at times when the preferred foods are scarce , especially at Sepilok and in Gabon . |
| 16 | After a quarter of a century of divided independence , some West Indian rulers are tired of the insignificance to which miniaturisation condemns them . |
| 17 | The extent to which society is prepared to divert resources of money and skilled manpower to the treatment , education and care of the physically handicapped is always a telling indication of the extent to which society accepts them and truly cares about their welfare . |
| 18 | Both Tesco and NFC are back above the levels at which Questor sold them . |