Example sentences of "[prep] which they can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At weekends it makes for a good day 's outing to take the family for a picnic , after which they can gather as many strawberries as they want at the various fruit farms dotted around . |
| 2 | On telemarketing , the code insists that companies must ring up prospective clients at reasonable hours , do not use high pressure sales tactics and allow prospective purchasers a ‘ cooling off ’ period during which they can change their minds . |
| 3 | The parties should agree a period of time during which they can continue negotiations and the investors can undertake investigations without fear that the target may be sold to a third party . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind that the elderly often most enjoy visits that are on a one-to-one basis , during which they can ventilate their anxieties and have the undivided attention of a sympathetic listener , it is not always a good idea to arrive with several young children in tow , if they can be happily parked elsewhere . |
| 5 | As soon as it is over and both males are exhausted they have a brief opportunity during which they can launch an attack and win the harem from both of them , and this has been seen to happen . |
| 6 | Under the Law Society 's Scheme , representatives who are not accredited will have a period of six months during which they can develop their skills by being paid for work on less serious cases . |
| 7 | Thus even for the privileged few the length of time during which they can enjoy their peak earnings is being restricted . |
| 8 | ‘ It is , perhaps , not too much to ask on their behalf for a period of calm during which they can reassert , each in his and her own way , the tradition of public service to which they are clearly dedicated . ’ |
| 9 | They see Caller Display as a service which gives them a window on the world , through which they can stop unwanted calls and increase their sense of security . ’ |
| 10 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 11 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 12 | State administrative agencies thus feed off the results of interest-group pressure , and interest groups find in the administration multiple points of access through which they can influence the formulation of government policy . |
| 13 | It is useful to point out that when using such materials choreographers must know their vocabulary very thoroughly and select movements through which they can emphasise the moment when disaster strikes . |
| 14 | Having chosen the story , theme or music , choreographers must consider the available living material through which they can mould the particular style of dance appropriate to their ideas . |
| 15 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 16 | Third , and as a consequence of the last two factors , they have been able to develop a number of networks , more or less formal , through which they can contact one another . |
| 17 | Counselling seeks to present troubled individuals with a ‘ mirror ’ through which they can assess their social performance , and the reasons which lie behind its success or failure , its quality or lack of quality . |
| 18 | To be more specific , he showed that , if chemical substances react in a medium through which they can diffuse , it is not always true that the reactants will become uniformly distributed . |
| 19 | These six activity books provide children who are beginning to learn English with a wide range of activities through which they can practise English grammar and vocabulary , and develop their reading and writing skills . |
| 20 | Most of the living cephalopods also have an ink sac which injects a smoky fluid into the water when the animal is threatened , under cover of which they can make their own jet-propelled escape . |
| 21 | Women have a natural link between the psyche and the physical , of which they can make valuable use . |
| 22 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 23 | The staff of Lothian Highways have many achievements of which they can feel proud . |
| 24 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 25 | In the blossoming environment of audit and acceptable peer review , general practitioners need a benchmark against which they can assess the quality of their prescribing . |
| 26 | Your Upside-Down Catfish may well settle down if you include some floating plants beneath which they can hide . |
| 27 | Most teleost fish are equipped with gas-filled ‘ swim-bladders ’ , with which they can adjust their buoyancy to the particular depth . |
| 28 | If you want to use some very bright red flowers choose a subtle , gentle background with which they can blend . |
| 29 | Clients are given a huge piece of paper and paints with which they can unlock the feelings welling up inside them . |
| 30 | The limitations of QACs are of less significance when they are compounded with other products with which they can exert a synergistic effect . |