Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [noun pl] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inexperienced as I was in counselling , I nevertheless felt it essential that the school should offer itself as a support agency through which parents could find their way into the numerous services provided by the state , by the local authority and by voluntary organisations . |
| 2 | Religious experience offered a release through which women could testify to an authoritative experience in which gender was transcended . |
| 3 | Many writers have gone on to argue that such consensual preferences became even stronger once post-war reforms ensured a more representative structure through which citizens could contribute to the formation of a national consensus . |
| 4 | This lack of real parties during the period of Whig supremacy in 1714–60 was made possible by the lack during these years of real issues of principle around which opinion could crystallize and in terms of which politicians could arrange themselves . |
| 5 | Bombers could be made invisible to radar , maintained an American author in New Scientist , the issue also carrying a discussion of what scientists could do to halt development of more appalling weapons even than those in existence . |
| 6 | It was certainly a spectacular display of what dancers could do with their legs whilst merely marching but the ports de bras were very limited and merely swung at the sides or sprang to attention . |
| 7 | Although much of the interior was still shrouded in scaffolding and plastic sheet , marble tiled floors , ceiling panels , twin escalators and the glass-domed roof gave a clear impression of what shoppers could look forward to . |
| 8 | It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met . |
| 9 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 10 | Political parties provided the labels with which electors could identify , and elections became gladiatorial contests between parties rather than between individual candidates . |
| 11 | The issue which divided public opinion largely revolved around the ineffectiveness of the prison system and the ease with which convicts could bamboozle prison chaplains into believing that their characters had been reformed , thus securing their release on ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ , and there was little room fur the idea that the roots of crime might be found in social conditions . |
| 12 | In certain European countries , however , notably England and Holland , the freedom with which scholars could defend the Copernican system stands in striking contrast with the repression faced by Galileo . |
| 13 | Dolphin studies then focussed on dolphins in captivity , and trainers and researchers alike were amazed at the speed with which dolphins could learn . |
| 14 | Zeinab agreed that she would like a coffee and Mahmoud wanted to talk about what they had seen , so they stopped the arabeah when they reached the Ismailiya Quarter with its more Westernized restaurants into which women could go , and got out . |
| 15 | The new paper takes the discussion forward by bringing together the main suggestions from the earlier paper which enjoyed general support , and further proposals for a system under which tax-payers could assess their own liabilities . |
| 16 | The appointment of new and conservative judges in the later 1980s was seen as posing a threat to the basic rights enunciated in Roe , yet in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ( 1989 ) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey ( 1992 ) the court condoned further restrictions being placed by the states on the circumstances under which women could obtain abortions , while refusing to decide directly to reverse the principles in Roe . |
| 17 | the ‘ internal market ’ , under which GPs could send patients to the health districts with the shortest waiting lists , with the money for their treatment travelling with them . |
| 18 | All the pitches were lined with trees under which spectators could sit and which made splendid spots for picnics when no game was going on . |
| 19 | Internationally , the emphasis was on developing mediation processes and organizational structures within which leaders could perceive more accurately the ( non-aggressive ) aims of their potential adversaries . |
| 20 | If evolutionary studies provided a vertical dimension within which objects could signify the development of societies , this was complemented by the growth of diffusionary studies in which the horizontal distribution of objects over the globe was thought to be further evidence for the movements of both peoples and ideas , for example , from origins in ancient Egypt or Germany . |
| 21 | In a number of other areas the national perspective was maintained either by mini projects which provided a framework within which colleges could operate and develop their units , or by SCOTVEC providing advice , assistance and initial leadership ( together with on-going administrative support ) for groups of colleges in consortium — so called Nationally Led Consortia . |
| 22 | The standard is designed to use established quality assurance tools and provide a management framework from within which companies could seek registration with the EC eco-audit scheme if they wished to . |
| 23 | This is hardly surprising , because the chemical non-inertness of the dominant volatiles and the considerable differences in volatility between one volatile and another and between their compounds lead to numerous possible ways in which differences could arise . |
| 24 | Christianity enormously expanded the perspectives in which rulers could think of themselves , and these perspectives in turn became an engine of expanded royal government . |
| 25 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 26 | In one South West London School ( opened in 1968 ) a special workshop-club was provided in which parents could meet regularly after school ( from 5 to 7 pm ) to take part in a wide range of shared activities such as model making and the arts . |
| 27 | We talked about ways in which parents could encourage their children to read , and also the extent to which Dad or Mum should help with homework . |
| 28 | He could also shorten the period in which residents could make a claim for compensation and alter the cost of a survey of buildings outside the protected property area . |
| 29 | Other important institutions were public places in which avant-gardes could meet , like the legendary ‘ Neopathetisches Cabarett ’ . |
| 30 | Besides factories it could be used as a device in which managers could survey workers , or teachers keep a close but invisible eye on their pupils . |