Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Goody , then , sees the activities of Pythagoras and his followers as quite different from the flowering of logic , scientific clarity , lack of ambiguity , scepticism etc. for which he praises classical Greece .
2 Does the Secretary of State recall a speech that he made several months ago in which he encouraged the business community to take on racketeers ?
3 He has created a gap downwind into which he can accelerate to start at speed , whilst those around him will still be sheeting in .
4 So we 've got iron ore obviously from which we get the iron .
5 The question thus with which we are confronted is that of whether this religion can contain the new consciousness of women .
6 She 'd had a dream once in which she 'd ceased to be herself , and had to walk amidst crowds of jeering people , asking them who she was .
7 She has spoken at the UN and given lectures abroad in which she has tried to draw attention to Central America 's most beautiful and most tragic republic .
8 Enough to say that , after he had recovered from the operation and came home , Nigel and I had forty-eight days together in which he was serene , happy and free from pain , which I regard as beyond price .
9 Mr Venables also held a news conference yesterday at which he vowed again that he would continue his fight to wrest control of the club from Mr Sugar .
10 The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction .
11 In his report published two days ago in which he accused the Department of Trade and Industry of ‘ substantial maladministration ’ over the Barlow Clowes affair , Sir Anthony wrote : ‘ He ( the liquidator ) believed that the warrant for her arrest still remained outstanding . ’
12 However , although he says this , partly to emphasise that the truth of the matter is quite independent of the question whether we know it , it would seem reasonable to expect that , if there is a real truth here into which we might have rational insight , careful attention to just what is at issue will bring about convergence .
13 The mill 's equipment was removed many years ago following which it was converted to a row of cottages .
14 ‘ I mean the car crash twenty years ago in which you lost the use of your legs and Willy Morpurgo the use of his brain . ’
15 The group had held a press conference two days earlier at which they called on the Fourth Communist Party Congress ( Cuarto Congreso del Partido Comunista ) to instigate radical political reforms and also attempted to distribute a statement to this effect to Congress delegates .
16 One could choose a song title with a special sentimental attachment , or the frontispiece from the score of some classical music ( as shown in the photograph on the facing page ) , but there are other ideas too from which you can choose .
17 If our policies had achieved wider media coverage , we may have achieved greater support , but there is a foundation there on which we intend to build .
18 There was an element of criticism there of which I was informed by the Chief Whip and the Lord Chancellor , just as there was an element of criticism of Hailsham , and it seemed quite possible that the Whips would prefer a compromise candidate .
19 There 's probably a knees-up afterwards to which we 're not invited . ’
20 In working towards the growth of a total quality culture it seeks to impact on all aspects of Scottish life , encompassing corporate responsibility and individual quality awareness both of which it believes are fundamental to long-term Scottish success .
21 Huddled behind a clump of trees , several villagers pointed to an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a truck in the valley far below which they said Serbian forces had used to pummel their homes .
22 It was she who had cared for him , and looked after him , too , until he died , and in the bed upstairs in which he had been born , and his father before him , in the days when this house had really been a farmhouse and the land about had been glowing with crops in their rotation .
23 So we have some peak okay at which we are performing .
24 The Norman conquerors , in attempting to establish rights to land in England , undermined indigenous oral criteria for proof of ownership , by which they as newcomers were on weaker ground than native land owners , and set up centralised , bureaucratic procedures with emphasis on written documentation , records , cross-referencing etc. over which they could exercise greater control .
25 It is a model away from which they are now moving .
26 Mr Fallon said officers he had canvassed wanted to see stiffer sentences for offenders and the return of the death penalty both of which he supported .
27 ‘ Home Alone ’ girl Gemma Gibson ( 11 ) will remain in the care of Hammersmith Council , London , following a High Court hearing today at which she and her actress mother Yasmin — who is on police bail — were represented .
28 It is believed that they migrated to central Italy from Asia Minor or possibly further east in the eighth century B.C. ; remaining dominant and independent until the third century B.C. after which they were gradually Latinised under Roman rule .
29 He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part .
30 Of course , there are many other tasks too for which you 'll find the Steamatic is the perfect answer .
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