Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weatherhead was honest enough to realise that there are many aspects of religion about which one has to remain uncertain , that is , agnostic . |
| 2 | Mr Vernon added that the fund raisers highest recompense would perhaps come when they heard the citations read for the gallantry medals to be awarded that afternoon , there being no better proof of the importance to the Institution for which everyone worked so willingly . |
| 3 | Getting into a state as a result of which someone died may have been reckless in ordinary language but there was a gap in time , a lack of contemporaneity , between the getting into the state and the victim 's death . |
| 4 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 5 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |
| 6 | A path led up to a level terrace from which one entered the tombs . |
| 7 | This is a collective ritual in which everyone plays a part . |
| 8 | We may define ‘ egoism ’ as the principle of acting only for the goals to which one inclines from one 's own viewpoint , and suggest two directions from which it might be approached . |
| 9 | For Karen , though , good sex was just one of the amenities to which everyone aspired . |
| 10 | He delivered a sermon during which everyone stood still , until he picked up a handful of earth and spoke in a deep voice : ‘ Ashes to ashes . |
| 11 | Their clothes — culottes in white , green , blue of the most vivid shades , cork-soled sandals through which one sees their gleaming brown toes — such men inhabited Olympus , truly . |
| 12 | It adopted the then new methodology of selecting inventive products which had reached the market and making pairs of companies of which one had been successful and the other unsuccessful . |
| 13 | What their rides offer is an opportunity to enter a movie , to penetrate a spectacle of which one has always been , precisely , a mere spectator . |
| 14 | After a witnessing session in which everyone opened their hearts and emerged exalted we walked out into the night and began to neck . |
| 15 | Why should a hut in which someone lives count as his ? |
| 16 | A study in 1971 found that of 132 political states only 12 were true nation-states in which everyone had the same native tongue . |
| 17 | Systematic gradation reduces the difficulties of language learning by distributing the extensive material of a language into steps arranged in prepared texts in which everything progresses in an orderly , and not erratic , sequence . |
| 18 | The General Theory appears to have assumed the dubious status of a ‘ classic ’ : a work to which everyone refers but which no one reads . |
| 19 | One then lets the influence of the beliefs on all these matters at which one arrives play upon oneself and/or others , until this causes settled , and with good fortune agreed , attitudes to emerge in all concerned . |
| 20 | If the bill is to be calculated on a daily rate and someone 's auntie comes to stay for a couple of months in the middle of the year , what about all the complications in adjusting for that and how do we account for the period for which someone has lost the discount ? |
| 21 | It reads at times like a catalogue of economic aggression of which one telling example may be sufficient : in 1976 Ciba-Geigy purposely sprayed a group of Egyptian children with the pesticide Galecron in order to test its effects . |
| 22 | The ‘ flight instruments ’ consist of an ASI and altimeter , with a compass suspended from the airframe in one 's line of vision ; the most prominent feature in Victor Sierra is a large clear plastic pocket on the black leather facia into which one puts one 's folded quarter-million showing the route . |
| 23 | Although no precise consortium bank definition exists , the Bank of England defines it as one owned by other banks in which none has more than 50 per cent ownership and at least one shareholder is an overseas bank . |
| 24 | True art and architecture collaboration is a process in which everyone has to define his own limits . |
| 25 | Its vision for society is that of a reconstituted pre-industrial kind of community in which everyone knows who they are , what is expected of them and the kind of values by which they are to live . |
| 26 | From the Wilton Weavers she was given a camera as a leaving present and from the Winding Department and the Spool Setters she received a generous gift of cash to which everyone had contributed . |
| 27 | The word ‘ natural ’ will still be allowed , says the Ministry of Agriculture 's Food Advisory Committee , for ‘ single foods of a traditional nature to which nothing has been added and which have been subjected only to such processing as to render them suitable for human consumption . |
| 28 | If an honest attempt is made in one 's own little world to make this strive a living force without being crushed under foot by one 's contemporaries , then one may consider oneself and the community to which one belongs lucky . |
| 29 | This decline could support the generational cohort theory developed by Butler and Stokes : that is , that it is not age as such that influences voting behaviour but the period at which one becomes politically aware . |
| 30 | This must be why his collection is , despite the inclusion of some beautiful and thrilling descriptive writing , less readable than those predecessors for which one reaches when tucked up in bed on a stormy night . |