Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , as an eminent Scottish banker remarked looking back from seven years on , it was remarkable , " after the first surprise and alarm was over , how quietly the country submitted , as they still do , to transact all business by means of bank notes for which the issuers give no specie " .
2 This view puts the dynamic of police racism in the norms and values through which the police define their roles and legitimate their activities .
3 Doubtless the slow ‘ stately ’ motion of Jupiter in its orbit and its brightness were some of the reasons for which the Romans gave to this planet the name Jupiter , the Roman king of the gods .
4 Indeed , largely owing to Eadmer , it is the only aspect of Anselm 's work as archbishop for which the materials allow a consecutive story to be told .
5 ‘ Megavitamins ’ , that is doses of vitamins many times larger than that recommended to prevent diseases arising from deficiency , have been found to affect the biochemical reactions for which the vitamins are needed .
6 When I do use it , it tends to be as a way into a narrative for which the children themselves will take increasing responsibility .
7 Most of the lights were already extinguished , and the doors of the station bolted , except for one small aperture through which the passengers stumbled into the street .
8 The meetings for which the awards are offered are :
9 A report recently published by the Council for National Parks calls upon the government to make a much stronger commitment to protect the environmental values for which the parks were originally created .
10 Postoperative fasting lasted 24 hours during which the animals received two subcutaneous injections of 8 ml 0.9% saline .
11 Until the start of the civil war , in the summer of 1918 , there was a relative lull in the social conflicts during which the Bolsheviks shared power with the Left Social-Revolutionaries and at the same time attempted to obtain the collaboration of some sections of the bourgeoisie and industrial managers in their efforts to revive industry .
12 On the contrary , their vision , as Eisenman says , is ‘ violently apocalyptic ’ , and constitutes a theological corollary to the violent action for which the Zealots are held responsible .
13 It is perfectly clear law that fear by itself , of whatever degree , is a normal human emotion for which no damages can be awarded .
14 The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors .
15 After a Bible reading , usually by the headmaster , Mr Herbert Dennis , mornings consisted of six lesson periods , interrupted by a break during which the students queued up for two half slices of bread known as ‘ geordie . ’
16 The Fellowship , organised by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ( SPAB ) , is a six-month training programme during which the craftsmen travel thousands of miles round the country together , studying traditional methods of repairing historic buildings .
17 This is the only crime for which the judges concede there is sufficient evidence .
18 The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm .
19 However , the Secretary of State bears a substantial proportion of the expense for which the governors are responsible : see , for example , section 102 of the Act of 1944 .
20 In … the Highlands … their [ sic ] was no other drink for the soldiers than brandy and spirits ; which rendered them incapable of performing their work , for remedy of which the officers did provide utensills and stores for brewing and did supply them therewith .
21 Mr. Philipson addressed an impassioned argument that it would be quite wrong for the court to vary the injunction at the behest of the defendants , seeing that they had flouted Morland J. 's order , as a result of which the documents had come into the hands of the Federal Reserve Board , who had in turn passed the information to the Bank of England ; and that it would be the antithesis of justice that the consequence of this misconduct should be the discharge of the very injunction which had been designed to protect the plaintiffs from these consequences .
22 Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’
23 Following the order of Nolan J. negotiations ensued between the parties as a result of which the commissioners repaid to Woolwich the sum of £56,998,221 with interest from 31 July 1987 , the date of the order , but refused to pay interest from any earlier date .
24 In April 1992 the IRA bomb in St Mary Axe which destroyed the Baltic Exchange and caused about £300m damage led to the preparation of contingency plans as a result of which the consequences of this April 's bomb in Bishopsgate were to some extent mitigated .
25 There must be an open dialogue as a result of which the participants will not only enter each other 's world-view , but will as a result have re-evaluated their own position .
26 Exposing fruit flies to X-rays or certain chemicals produces mutations , many of them lethal , as a result of which the flies can not survive at all .
27 When , in 1972 , a proposal was made to demolish them and to sell the site for redevelopment , strong local opposition arose , as a result of which the almshouses were entirely renovated and the interiors brought up to modern standards .
28 As it faces the power of capital organized in interlocking but legally separate corporate entities , labour is now cut up into atomized units of which the boundaries are by law coterminous with the employers ' definitions of employment units in both private and public sectors .
29 IN WITNESS of which the Authors have set their respective hands and seals to this Agreement on the date first mentioned above .
30 Eurotunnel also signed a usage agreement with British Rail and SNCF under which the railways are entitled to use half the capacity of the Tunnel .
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