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

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1 In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees .
2 Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary .
3 I am satisfied that a promise such as that to which I have referred is binding and the only question remaining for my consideration is the scope of the promise in the present case .
4 ‘ It seems that you would need a vessel such as that in which you came , before you would be able to return to your own world .
5 For that of which we relate is our interpretation , our presentational continuum coloured not so much by the world as by our own senses .
6 We , as professionals , need to stand up for that in which we believe .
7 The forensics , for much of which he was still waiting , and might go on waiting unless he pressed , the photographs and diagrams contained in the Scene of Crime report , and the testimony of Mrs Brocklebank .
8 I have really nothing else to say , except to draw attention to the inherently contradictory nature of that for which you appear to be asking .
9 He refers to symbols as pointing beyond themselves to the Ultimate while at the same time partaking of the nature of that to which they point .
10 In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent .
11 The adjective beautiful , for example , denotes a quality which can be found in many different objects and therefore does not by itself indicate the nature of that about which it is said .
12 See , for example , the definition of a company in section 388(4) of the Act of 1986 to which I shall return .
13 It was a sin different in kind from mischief-making and could , in Lydia 's estimation , be excused on the grounds that it was the sexual misbehaviour of another to which she was responding .
14 These drawings were originally prepared on the assumption that the Tussaud carriage was built in 1811 in preparation for the Russian campaign of 1812 in which it was reputed ( erroneously ) to have taken part .
15 Here is a selection of characteristics of effective RE which I have heard many times .
16 He and his staff rarely attend their meetings which he tends to view as an extension of the interests and personalities of those to which he is , to some degree at least , in opposition .
17 Second , an animal might direct altruistic acts towards genetic relatives of those with which it was raised .
18 For the three cones indicated , we show to the left their individual absorbance spectra , which are typical of those on which we base our classification ; the solid curves fitted to the data are templates based on the Dartnall nomogram displaced on a log frequency abscissa .
19 I guess my inclination would be to say that there 's only one of those in which we are actually doing the proof .
20 Of the several awards she has won for her paintings , it is probably The National Portrait Award of 1987 for which she is best recognised .
21 In imitative play he might assume a role in imitation of one with which he is familiar and might handle equipment as he has seen it used by others .
22 But this is one of one of which we did agree was was a suitable factor to be considered in the er in the analysis .
23 The result would be a black hole : a region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape to infinity .
24 The event horizon , the boundary of the region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape , acts rather like a one-way membrane around the black hole : objects , such as unwary astronauts , can fall through the event horizon into the black hole , but nothing can ever get out of the black hole through the event horizon .
25 The steel firm has a value added or net output of 200 on which it pays 15 per cent or 30 in tax .
26 Equally , it must be apparent from the statement of reasons how the court has approached its duty under section 25 or indeed whatever section or sections of the Act of 1989 with which they are concerned .
27 Andropov set out his general approach to such matters in a speech in the spring of 1983 in which he emphasised that the Soviet Union was ‘ only at the beginning ’ of the long historical stage of developed socialism ; there must be no exaggeration of the country 's closeness to communism , and no attempt to minimise the difficulties that lay ahead Discussing the party programme more directly , Andropov told the Central Committee in June 1983 that many of its directives had in fact been realised : links between citizens and deputies , for instance , had become closer , and national discussion of major items of legislation had become a well-established practice .
28 One of this aims is to develop an understanding of both in which they are seen as essential to one another .
29 There was no question of Lewis abandoning the Moores , but the body does not always believe the evidence of its senses ; and from this time onwards Minto ( as Lewis had begun to call Janie , after a variety of sweet to which she was devoted ) began to develop a series of psychosomatic conditions which strengthened the ties binding him to her side .
30 In a larger building , like that in which I work , I would have to store a lot of instructions of the above kind in order to find my way about .
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