Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he thought that this meaning had evolved from the original word for a straight track , via the clearing of the woodland through which it passed , to the more common present-day meaning . |
| 2 | The board only markets accommodation which has passed an inspection for which it charges a fee . |
| 3 | The board only markets accommodation which has passed an inspection for which it charges a fee . |
| 4 | Marcus in London remained secluded , his chief ‘ manifestations ’ being visits to Patrick during which it seemed ( Ludens was sometimes present ) little was said . |
| 5 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |
| 6 | Find out how easy it is to get through to the number , the quality of the answers , and the hours during which it operates . |
| 7 | The Ministry of the Interior , anxious about the security implications of labour unrest , experimented from 1901–3 with police-run labour organizations through which it hoped to direct working-class energy from political towards purely economic and cultural aims . |
| 8 | It is this sovereign self of Europe which is today being deconstructed , showing the extent to which Europe 's other has been a narcissistic self-image through which it has constituted itself while never allowing it to achieve a perfect fit . |
| 9 | In particular , they must have forgotten the acts of violence through which it came into being ; and to be a nation , its inhabitants have to have a will to be a nation . |
| 10 | Throughout the discussion I refer interchangeably to the state , which is the political organization of a society , its government , the agent through which it acts , and the law , the vehicle through which much of its power is exercised . |
| 11 | In other words , John Finnegan advised on the value of the property for the period of 17 months during which it increased in value from £4.4m to £9.4m — or by £10,000 per day ! |
| 12 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 13 | The worst case of decline , that of Boston , was brought about by the decline of the wool trade , on the export of which it had grown , and its failure to secure any substantial share of cloth exports . |
| 14 | In the course of the day the UK government announces increases in base rate from 10 to 12 , and then to 15 per cent effective Sept. 17 , in unsuccessful efforts to defend the value of sterling , then withdraws sterling from the ERM , allowing its value to " float " ( as a result of which it falls some 10 per cent against the deutschmark to below DM2.52 by the end of September ) , and cuts base rate to 12 per cent . |
| 15 | However , the DES then began discussions with TEC , BEC , the CGLI , and a number of other unspecified bodies , as a result of which it issued , in March 1978 , a consultative paper on ‘ future validating and examining arrangements for courses of agricultural education at craft level ’ . |
| 16 | The line labelled unc horizontal because none of the three variables of which it consists depends on national income . |
| 17 | But here , colours and outlines intensified in the glare , the body , still outwardly so human , looked an absurd burlesque , the skin of the pallid cheek as artificial as the stained plastic of the car against which it rested . |
| 18 | Make says it will sell direct , rather than via the hardware manufacturers with which it has relationships . |
| 19 | The river was called Rush River , because of the speed with which it roared down from the Blue Mountains , scoring a twisted gorge through the forest . |
| 20 | The most striking feature about the Treaty of Rome , however , was the speed with which it had been reached . |
| 21 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |
| 22 | The polymerase chain reaction has been unquestionably unique , as new techniques go , in the speed with which it has been embraced by non-experts in most specialties of the biological sciences , including medicine . |
| 23 | One of the more remarkable features of this project is the speed with which it has progressed from conception to completion of construction . |
| 24 | There is a strange wistfulness in the speed with which it disperses and baffles our grasp . |
| 25 | Its molluscan foot has become divided into some ninety long grasping tentacles with which it grapples with its prey . |
| 26 | IBM Corp has now wrapped up the deal under which it hands over MAPICS to Marcam Corp in return for 1.615m new shares in its partner . |
| 27 | However , adenovirus rarely integrates and can not divide in the cell , so it would only be effective as long as the human cell into which it enters survives . |
| 28 | He said then that the housing market recession had not hit the North East and North Yorkshire with anything like the force with which it had struck the rest of the country . |
| 29 | The first is that the meaning of a word is not fixed like a dictionary definition , but rather it varies according to the words with which it enters into combination : consider the different meanings of ‘ white ’ in the expressions ‘ white wine ’ and ‘ white coffee ’ . |
| 30 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |