Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There had been doubts about which would break first , Christmas or booksellers ' spirits . |
| 2 | The child 's greed is obstructing awareness of consequences the facing of which would cause him to refrain ; therefore to let the impulse to refrain prevail over the impulse to eat is a causally necessary condition of obeying the imperative . |
| 3 | Those who have not tried to sell — and particularly sell in a highly competitive market where there are very large contracts , the possession or loss of which can have a fatal effect on one 's whole business — do not know how testing it is of courage and nerve . |
| 4 | It undertook to pass a law by Dec. 31 ensuring that Ukrainian conscripts served only on Ukrainian soil ; called for formation of a parliamentary commission to discuss nationalizing Communist Party assets ; asserted that the Ukraine would not enter into a new union treaty before a new constitution creating a sovereign Ukraine was drafted ; and called a referendum in 1991 " on confidence in the Ukrainian President " , the result of which would determine whether to hold fresh elections by the end of the year . |
| 5 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 6 | Teer accepted £4,500 from the supporters ' club , £1,500 of which will go to the Geddis Memorial Stand Fund . |
| 7 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 8 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 9 | It has a trading character , the defamation of which may ruin it . |
| 10 | You must also take into account any local exchange control regulations , the effect of which may make it sensible for the contract to stipulate that part of your salary shall be credited to you elsewhere . |
| 11 | He adds that he would be surprised if industry , already hit by the recession , ‘ was not anxious about the prospect of accounting changes , the general effect of which will reduce the opportunities for carrying costs below the line ’ . |
| 12 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
| 13 | They dropped down into a chamber , the roof of which must have been seven or eight feet high , and where the air seemed quite fresh . |
| 14 | Given the diet of a species , determined by its ecology , the individual members have two behavioural problems , the best solutions to which will depend on their diet . |
| 15 | Strangely , few barns had been converted into craft or light industry centres , the rent on which would provide a permanent income for the farmer . |
| 16 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 17 | They showed some decline in the 1931 Census ( to 48 per cent and 8 per cent respectively ) , part of which must have been the result of high general levels of unemployment in the depths of the inter-war depression . |
| 18 | You get plenty of choice with the memory-resident monitors — you can opt for the enhanced protection of VSAFE , part of which can reside in Upper memory , or you can go for the smaller VWATCH . |
| 19 | OK ) Largest executable program size : 602832 ( 588.7K ) Largest available upper memory block 18704 ( 18.3K ) 1441792 bytes total EMS memory 1018576 bytes free EMS memory 1441792 bytes total contiguous extended memory 0 bytes available contiguous extended memory 196608 bytes available XMS memory MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area PPC : We 'll be running a series on tuning-up your PC , one part of which will deal specifically with optimising memory usage — the first part , covering hard drives , appears this month . |
| 20 | We are convinced that the philosophy which was originally intended to predominate in the post-war UK child care legislation — namely that the work of public agencies was to provide supportive services to families , part of which could include admission to care as a means ultimately of preserving family relationships in the long run — has been lost from current practice . |
| 21 | This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities . |
| 22 | Unfortunately some of this work was done without a proper appreciation of the fact that the presence of tree growth , and the shade it gave , prevented or at least discouraged the growth of water weeds , the existence of which could form an even greater obstruction than much of the tree growth . |
| 23 | The House suggests that Exxon pay $1.2 billion damages together with a $500 million criminal fine and a civil penalty of $700 million , prompt payment of which would allow immediate implementation of environmental restoration projects . |
| 24 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |
| 25 | Astaxanthin ( 3:3 — dihydroxy — 4:4 -diketo — B -carotene ) and B-carotene both occur as chromoproteins in the integument of locusts and the green chromoprotein pigment of many insects ( known as insectoverdin ) is a complex , the yellow-orange component of which may have as its prosthetic group B-carotene ( Carausius ) , lutein ( Sphinx , Tettigonia ) or astaxanthin . |
| 26 | The book is designed to bridge the gap between the very simple and inadequate descriptions of use given with many Homoeopathic remedies and the much larger texts , the depth and complexity of which would put Homoeopathy quite beyond all but the most dedicated of beginners . |
| 27 | The over-simple assumptions widespread in the early 1980s that controlling the supply of money would in some way affect inflation ( the removal of which would introduce a period of substantial growth ) must be considered as being unsound . |
| 28 | BGS staff on secondment prepared detailed geological maps of a reclamation area in the New Territories of Hong Kong and delineated the portion underlain by cavernous marble , the presence of which could affect development of the area . |
| 29 | The small bodies will have themselves accreted from even smaller bodies , the surfaces of which would carry traces of volatiles . |
| 30 | Intelligence reports had indicated that such a reactor , the plans and equipment for which could have been supplied by China in 1990 [ see p. 38548 ] , had been built in the northern mountains . |