Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [verb] they " in BNC.

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31 in which I observed them .
32 The room in which he received them was sparsely furnished , despite his wealth .
33 More fundamental were his experiments with hawks , in which he fed them meat contained in small cages .
34 The seriousness with which such a man takes those duties , and the manner in which he arranges them in his mind as regards their priorities depends entirely on how , from early childhood , he has been taught and influenced by his home life , schools and religious training , if any .
35 Magellan , who like everybody else was awed by their size , called these men ‘ patagones ’ — ‘ big feet ’ ; the land in which he found them became — and has been , ever since — Patagonia .
36 In the Latin American context , Johnson took the lead in proposing the middle class as the spearhead of change , by detailing the areas in which he considered they had influenced government in a progressive way in five major republics ( Johnson 1958 ) .
37 Each offers slightly different and more appropriate benefits to the players , so that the individuals have a secure platform from which we hope they will make serious bids for international success .
38 Of course , everything depends upon the angle from which we view them .
39 I find they resemble grit and taste the same — even the health store from which I bought them could not enlighten me .
40 The feeling of being in the centre of things , of constant activity , of being in charge not only of a vehicle but its VIP occupant — or occupants — and the different venues to and from which she transported them all over southern England , appealed enormously to her restless nature and craving for excitement .
41 He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation .
42 However , this does leave us with the unanswered question of the extent to which schools reflect social practices and the extent to which they shape them .
43 Much more promising avenues are opened up by those schools of thought that combine a description of the structure of texts with an account of the knowledge and attitudes that readers bring with them and of the process to which they subject them : some versions of structuralism ; and phenomenological and related theories , which study the process by which readers create meaning in a text with much more attention to the text itself than Richards ever allowed .
44 Another poll a year later asked respondents the extent to which they thought they could trust certain countries as allies in the event of war .
45 If accounting reports are to be useful , therefore , we must define the users of those reports and the uses to which they put them .
46 Where self-confidence is concerned , although most groups of men reckon it 's a quality women value , there are significant differences in the extent to which they believe they possess it .
47 Erm strictly in those terms by by district , mainly because much of the development across North Yorkshire is on very small sites er within urban areas , within villages , the extent to which you define them as green field or brown field sites becomes a very subjective one and I I think it 's a very difficult line to draw .
48 If teachers use the methods of the artisan to achieve satisfactory wage levels ( to which I agree they are entitled ) it is only reasonable for society , through its elected representatives , to view them in these terms and define for teachers their role and function .
49 It was further agreed that their structure , and the basis on which we conducted them , was a sensible way of covering all the questions which are at issue .
50 European diplomats say that Reginald Bartholomew , the under-secretary of state for security assistance , has warned them against doing anything with the WEU that undermines NATO or freezes out the Americans from security talks at which they think they are entitled to be present .
51 Both produce highly acceptable fonts in typographic terms but while PostScript fonts can be produced on demand those from Bitstream are only available in the sizes at which you generated them when the package was installed .
52 Salvadorean women often remark that they live in a " matriarchal society " , by which they mean they must support their children single-handed .
53 ‘ Regrettably , our ancestors of some thirty-five centuries back do n't seem to have given too much thought to posterity , by which I mean they left no records to satisfy their descendants ’ intellectual curiosity .
54 He who really wanted the facts had other sources by which he ascertained them , like his bank manager who invariably would advise steering clear of licensed dealers , and the OTC market in particular .
55 That is so even though B's 40 cwt. may not have been subdivided or allocated as between the separate contracts by which he bought them , Karlshamns Oliefabriker v. Eastport Navigation Corporation , The Elafi ( 1982 Q.B. ) .
56 The conduct of the ministers was provocative , but Taylor 's treatment of them was more severe than that of his Archbishop , John Bramhall , who when faced with the same situation devised a form of letters , acceptable to the Presbyterians , by which he supplied them with the qualifications which they lacked , so that they were able to retain their livings .
57 The second objective is to conceptually analyse the non-course related and the range of thesis skills that each student requires and the means by which he acquires them .
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