Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which [indef pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it can be used to express requests for which one can assume willingness to comply : ( 209 ) ( She ) took me by the hand , and bidding me be of good cheer , set off with Gus in a coach , to pay a visit to those persons . |
| 2 | The words furnished tenancy would be empty vessels into which anything could be poured . |
| 3 | There were always polite formulae to which one could adhere . |
| 4 | Despite there being no mention on the sleevenotes , it 's the kind of album on which one can sense the contribution of MTV and American radio programmers retained as ‘ production consultants ’ . |
| 5 | However , in practice at present , there are certainly intermediate flows of which one might give a detailed description for one purpose and a statistical one for another . |
| 6 | In the past , choice was more important , and then national groups were much like many other groups of which one might be a member . |
| 7 | The question posed is , What is the minimum acceptable budget below which anyone would be accepted as poor ? |
| 8 | Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different . |
| 9 | But there are many matters about which one can not write … |
| 10 | For sure , ‘ Hate My Way ’ is excellent , a whiplashed stab of emotions throughout which one can shiver along to the demons cartwheeling through Kristin 's mind . |
| 11 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |
| 12 | However , the attitudinist will say that the only real deduction is at the descriptive level , and that the distinctively ethical part of the conclusion springs from the value charge of the word which expresses an attitude from which one can disassociate oneself without being in the least irrational . |
| 13 | Eupolemus , who was Judas Maccabaeus ' envoy to Rome in 161 B.C. , composed a work in which one could read an exchange of letters between the twelve-year-old Solomon and his client kings Vaphres of Egypt and Suron of Tyre ( Eusebius , Praep . |
| 14 | It is highly unlikely that research will do more than elaborate and refine matters upon which one may reasonably speculate from experience , from theories of behaviour generally , and from knowledge available from other areas , such as child abuse , or particular to ageing . |
| 15 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 16 | Such a theory might claim , for instance , that to understand a proposition is to be able to tell the difference between circumstances in which one would be justified in believing it and those in which one would not . |
| 17 | And No. 6 displays both the breath-taking pianism we have now come to expect with a compositional skill to which one can only take one 's hat off . |
| 18 | Looking at the specific people and events mentioned , the degree to which one might talk of ‘ organisation ’ seems somewhat open to question . |
| 19 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 20 | What is reading ? — a simple question to which one would expect a simple answer . |
| 21 | It is a place of calm and classical beauty : I am afraid it is exactly the sort of place for which one must long most desperately when out of Greece . |
| 22 | So , Coward is elevated to join the likes of Greed ( 1923 ) and Paisa ( 1946 ) and Le jour se lève ( 1939 ) , but Manvell cautiously refuses to bestow individual plaudits , preferring to see the film as ‘ one of those rare films for which one can never be sure to whom the real credit is due … an example of the unity achieved by the cooperation of many creative minds ’ . |
| 23 | This account can be illustrated by considering his analysis of how discrimination training might increase the ease with which one can distinguish burgundy from claret . |
| 24 | The ease with which one can learn a concept depends critically on the structure of the predicate p , which in turn depends on the description language . |
| 25 | And it did bring it home to me that we have got a major security problem in this building and in our other municipal buildings and quite frankly the ease with which anybody can come into this building at virtually any time of the day or evening astounds me . |
| 26 | The danger of over-embalming is not there because these fluids are designed to be mixed , not like old fashioned fluids with which nothing could be mixed except some Fairy Liquid for lanolin content . |
| 27 | Being on six floors does not allow for sweeping vistas , but this is not a shop in which one can get lost any more . |
| 28 | There are places in which one can sense the numinous , the presence of spiritual forces more easily than others . |
| 29 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
| 30 | Su'a received the third lbw of the match to which one could raise an eyebrow — this one was coming across him from a suspiciously sharp angle as DeFreitas bowled round the wicket and wide out . |