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

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1 Accordingly instead of serving the economic function for which they were originally advocated they have been modified to serve the political function of reducing the number of unemployed whilst minimizing intervention in the economy as a whole .
2 Contamination occurred in 26 of the 109 cases in which I used diathermy .
3 If you are fortunate enough to have a lower level into which you can siphon away the water , that is the easiest .
4 His wisdom and strategic vision laid the solid foundations on which we will continue to build .
5 Research turned towards the policy process itself , to the people who took the decisions and to the local political institutions in which they operated .
6 The splitters reply that only fine-grained analysis can identify the precise patterns of actions on which we base our subjective impressions , and perhaps uncover other coherent patterns for which we have no names .
7 Privately , however , his mood was often near despair as he contemplated the financial and emotional chaos into which he was sinking .
8 Hardly any of the studies of the crisis go on to consider why the National Government broke the specific pledges upon which it had been formed and went to the country as a government in an election which bore some considerable resemblance to the ‘ coupon election ’ of 1918 .
9 Nonetheless , many census agencies publish annual , quarterly , and even monthly estimates of population change ( OPCS , 1984 ) , but their usefulness is much reduced by the coarse spatial framework in which they are published .
10 A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " .
11 He would ‘ age ’ the wooden panels and painted surfaces on which he had lavished so much skill and care by exposing them to extremes of dryness and humidity , direct heat and cold ; and he used controlled violence to inflict scratches and abrasions .
12 At length these bitter fruits of sin , and a sense of dependency on his providence for the averting those dreadful consequences with which others were imminently threatened , brought me to the repentance and gave me a victory over those guilty passions by which I had been so long enslaved .
13 Design teams should be allocated a total budget within which they agree to provide a design to the appropriate quality .
14 Thus this choice reaction time can be described by RT = 377 * log2N where N is the number of possible values from which we are required to choose .
15 He burned his bridges , and , working solely on small-scale projects over which he had total control , descended into drink and drugs .
16 It was in the days before soldiers were housed in barracks and were left to their own devices in the taverns and private houses in which they were billetted .
17 Chesterton , a Stanhope who survived , found in fascism a positive political creed with which he could identify .
18 Perhaps these were the monoliths worshipped by the aboriginal Gaunches to which they offered sacrifices of milk , honey and sheep fat .
19 I suspect that , in the highly political times in which we live , Lamont will reserve any spare cash in the budget kitty for vote-catching ideas .
20 The costing of functions is done by estimating the proportion of the part cost that can notionally be attributed to each function to which it contributes .
21 The costing of functions is done by estimating the proportion of the part cost that can notionally be attributed to each function to which it contributes .
22 It was well known amongst that elite of which he was a part that the Chairman detested news of crisis .
23 In his article today , headed ‘ Foul language ’ ( Lifestyle ) , Brian Pendreigh raises an issue of crucial importance in our society : the desire of some individuals to censor the publication of political opinions with which they disagree .
24 Losing your job as a result of a redundancy programme will often be a demoralising blow from which it is difficult to recover .
25 This is by no means the end of the matter , but enough has been stated to show the breadth of the definition of development and the technical complexities to which it can give rise .
26 The miller down the ages has made his own peculiar contribution to the low esteem in which he was held .
27 Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 .
28 Corporate members may only participate in elections of that branch to which they are attached .
29 The US also released a list of other European products on which they are considering imposing additional duties if negotiations with the EC ‘ failed to result in adequate reform ’ of its system of agricultural subsidies on oilseed exports .
30 The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place .
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