Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They know that it would be almost impossible for them , even though it would be for only a week , after which they could return to their comfortable lives . |
| 2 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 3 | Take a walk around the streets one day and have a look at all the innocent objects lying about which you could use to defend yourself in a desperate situation . |
| 4 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 5 | There was silence during which they could hear singing coming from the street . |
| 6 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 7 | He also arranged with the school resource centre for him to have access to the library area at certain periods , during which he could relax with a book or magazine . |
| 8 | There was a momentary silence during which she could imagine him rallying for another attack . |
| 9 | Nor did he raise one word about the history of his own great movement , about the fact that the working people of this country were urged to organise and to use their vote , through which they could change the policies under which they lived . |
| 10 | Within Christianity , people have sought out symbols through which they could formulate their faith , such as the doctrine of the trinity . |
| 11 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 12 | I began to see that mathematics might offer John and others the opportunities and challenges through which they could begin to succeed . |
| 13 | The four leaders , Clyde Wells of Newfoundland and Labrador , Donald Cameron of Nova Scotia , Joe Ghiz of Prince Edward Island and Frank McKenna of New Brunswick , also discussed methods through which they could co-ordinate economic and fiscal strategies in their forthcoming budgets . |
| 14 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , ‘ sweat is of such a nature that it would not appear upon the skin unless pores existed through which it could pass from inside to the outside ’ . |
| 16 | When the DUP began , the only formal channel through which it could pursue its politics was Stormont and Paisley and Beattie were outnumbered in a very short-lived parliament . |
| 17 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 18 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 19 | Blake apparently broke one of the cast-iron sections of the frame , creating a space through which he could crawl , and then dropped down to the ground below , a distance of 22 feet , which was broken by the roof of a covered passageway . |
| 20 | To his right was a high sunny window , through which you could see the high green leaves of St James 's Square . |
| 21 | Now and again , however , we caught glimpses of its Templar past : black Beauce crosses printed on the walls which the passage of time had not faded ; old arrow slits through which you could glimpse the snowy fields beyond ; small gargoyles , some depicting wyverns or dragons , others the faces of long-dead knights . |
| 22 | She was scanning the windows of the ward above , and holding up a plastic shopping bag , through which I could discern two bottles of wine and several cartons of cakes and other goodies . |
| 23 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 24 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 25 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 26 | Gripping the hammer in one fist and propping the hatch up with her free hand , she crouched low so that she had about an inch gap through which she could see the back door . |
| 27 | These people only understood one thing and that was individualism and by telling people to jog and eat brown bread , they defined health as an individual problem for which they could offer only individual solutions . |
| 28 | Er so we are all very keen to see this get these extra fire fighters but as he has n't identified the source for which they could pay more , this believes that fifty thousand pounds which slices , there is a good way of doing it and suggest that that 's the way we should do it . |
| 29 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 30 | But Phoenician traders were notorious for their shady dealings around the Mediterranean and if there was a precious commodity for which they could find a ready market , nothing could stop them . |