Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which one [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 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A path led up to a level terrace from which one entered the tombs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | IT IS difficult to describe the feelings with which one approaches a series entitled Science international , presented by original goon and parascience enthusiast Michael Bentine . |
| 16 | It is possible to reserve title only in goods in which one has got title to start with , i.e. the unmixed goods . |
| 17 | Be seen to is found quite often for instance in the sort of context alluded to by Bolinger in which one gets the impression that someone is establishing the facts : ( 67 ) Nobody had been seen to enter the house or leave it . |
| 18 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 19 | Such things happen in bad dreams , dreams of the recurring kind from which one awakens in panic and fear , though she had never dreamed anything like this . |
| 20 | It is clear that what is necessary in such a case is research , not dogmatic and perfectly arbitrary claims , based on analogies to that small part of the experimental literature in which one happens to be interested . |
| 21 | This is a case in which one turns to computation in order to verify an impression gained in reading , and in the Appendix ( pp. 85–8 ) I have recorded the results of my count . |
| 22 | In any case in which one penetrates beyond the directives or the rules to their underlying justifications one has to discount the independent weight of the rule or the directive as a reason for action . |
| 23 | Equally , however , if the only learning experience one encountered was in closely programmed format there would be no scope for those intuitive leaps and imaginative forays most of us remember , or for those times in which one pursues a sudden enthusiasm almost to saturation . |
| 24 | But there are some works in a lighter vein this one being a prime example for which one wonders if the mere fact of having a man play a woman 's role was intended to provoke laughter . |
| 25 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 26 | The manner with which one deals with any such approach may well have an important bearing on an opportunity at some later date . |
| 27 | The manner in which one says or writes things , those public and therefore never totally adequate ways in which we seek to express our private or inner emotions , always has an implicit as well as an explicit content . |
| 28 | One historian has written that the criticism was not that the charges were too high , but that there were any at all and has explained the opposition to fixed charges as conservative reaction to a money economy in which one paid for services rendered . |
| 29 | This entails personal views and values , a judgement about the degree of respect in which one holds the view of other people and a sense of whether something is being sacrificed or enhanced as a result of making adjustments . |
| 30 | The pressure of this or that requirement or directive , together with the environment in which one happens to be , for example working under an agnostic headteacher , or a staunch Christian one , or with an enthusiastic multi-faith team , etc. , governs what happens . |