Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser . |
| 2 | This was a tendency which coincided with the elimination of mothers and young children from employment in the wake of technological innovations which particularly diminished the kinds of work in which traditionally they had participated . |
| 3 | Whilst the Spirit is ready to help prayerful communicators to guide them to hidden personal needs of which otherwise they would be unaware , he also expects us to take practical steps to discover the needs around us . |
| 4 | Oh yes I mean Then er we had the Christmas Fair meeting of which maybe you want to look at the minutes now . |
| 5 | As a consequence of which well we went to Egypt and the Sudan this business , we came back and er the b the the foreman 's brother he ne he never liked me ever this forema when I were a kid you know , he never liked me at all , I never got on with him and and er mind you there 's a long story about that but it 's a silly little thing that er that I really upset him with . |
| 6 | The development of republican publishing industries , for instance , had helped to bring into being a group of local writers and journalists who tended naturally to operate in terms of the idiom with which both they and their readers were most familiar . |
| 7 | I thought it right to refer to this decision with which again I entirely agree . |
| 8 | This crazy world whirled about her , men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets , where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked and played musical instruments in the small and terrible hours of the night into which again she had been thrust . |
| 9 | A day in which both you and Pooley are urging me to drink . |
| 10 | My impression was that Ted by then was only hearing the advice he wished to hear , including some from sources to which previously he had paid scant attention . |
| 11 | But it is likely that within the safety of the legal bond partners shake off some aspects of their public persona and expose more of themselves , particularly those problematic areas of their personalities with which unconsciously they wish to engage . |
| 12 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 13 | My colleagues and I look forward to discussing with you ways in which together we can help your organisation fulfil that role during the decade ahead . |
| 14 | I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ? |
| 15 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
| 16 | 223 ( including the passage , at p. 229 , ‘ a person entrusted with a discretion must , so to speak , direct himself properly in law ’ ) and the manner in which thereafter he applied those principles to the facts of the case before the House . |
| 17 | It will mean that we can not shape the institutions to which subsequently we shall have to submit . |
| 18 | A review of the poll says the panel 's decision to waive rules on which previously it insisted reflects a sense among experts of ‘ a precipitate decline in the importance of humanist classicism and … cultural literacy ’ . |
| 19 | There is a sense in which even he , the perpetrator , is considered the victim of the crime , his crime , as if it was somehow larger than himself . |
| 20 | ‘ It is obvious that ‘ reputation , ’ in the sense in which alone it concerns the subject of defamation , has relation to the particular person enjoying it . |
| 21 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 22 | So even in the situation in which apparently you 're quite heavily dependent upon a neighbouring state , there usually is some element of choice . |
| 23 | It was ridiculous to be upset at all , since she had herself intended to tell Nick she was married as soon as she saw him , or to make sure he saw her left hand on which today she had taken care to wear her wedding ring . |
| 24 | He has since , of course , achieved a political status by which presumably I ought now to judge him , but as a junior voice in a senior assembly I could not resist the conclusion that he was a little too forthcoming , particularly when on one occasion he outraged me by a suggestion that if a common waiting-list was established , consolidating both private and NHS priorities , the NHS patients should have pride of place before private patients came into the reckoning . |
| 25 | The only time John Harden refers to Green in his diary was in 1802 — ‘ From Ambleside we took our road to Rydal first having visited Mr. Green 's Exhibition of his drawings amongst which indeed I saw some clever ones and felt an inclination to purchase but did not . ’ |
| 26 | Yes he 'll have mentioned the United States on occasions I hope cos he teaches the United States , yeah , well as you know I mean there are a number of separate powers , there 's the presidential erm there 's the presidential power , in foreign policy making I 'm talking about , there 's president , there 's the congress there 's the Pentagon , there 's the secretary of state for foreign affairs as well , and one of the characteristics of American policy is the way in which sometimes they can be ha be pursuing separate erm aims and using different methods . |
| 27 | It seems even bigger than it did from the ground , but I bridge and reach up , grasping huge , rough jugs on which even I can feel strong . |