Example sentences of "[prep] which we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not seek a quick ‘ one-off ’ sale , after which we shall disappear from your life for ever . |
| 2 | I shall allow questions to continue until 4.30 , after which we shall have to move on to the debate . |
| 3 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 4 | Most of the weekend exercises started off with a para drop on to a drop zone somewhere in the British Isles , after which we would spend two days marching with large packs , practising attacks and fieldcraft . |
| 5 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 6 | Once again the period of hypnosis itself will take only about twenty minutes , after which we will decide what the best form of homework would be in the particular circumstances . |
| 7 | This will take us about three months to complete after which we will concentrate on fitting brake and lubrication gear . |
| 8 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 9 | Verbs involve an appreciation of time ; nouns of objects in space , or of mental concepts and experiences ; adjectives of qualities between which we can discriminate ; adverbs of associations in time , space and quality . |
| 10 | Not only will the proposed reorganisation plunge local government into confusion and uncertainty for a number of years , during which we can expect little progress with the review and upgrading of old minerals permissions , but the resulting structure of small unitary authorities is very unlikely to deliver either the resources or the strategic perspective required to implement the proposed review . |
| 11 | The room itself is an object , with all its elements , carpets and hangings included , constituting an authentic whole , through which we can give a lesson in the development of style and taste . |
| 12 | The processes through which we can see texts functioning within a social and cultural context are problematic . |
| 13 | Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ? |
| 14 | It 's a marvellous profession through which we can help our fellow citizens , an enriching one which , like medicine , saves lives … |
| 15 | That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year . |
| 16 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 17 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 18 | Furthermore , with the exception of one sample ( N55 , for which we can offer no explanation ) , there is a strong correlation between γ Os and 206 Pb/ 204 Pb , suggesting a low- 206 Pb/ 204 Pb component similar to the source of group II kimberlites and some lamproites for which a SCLM origin is favoured . |
| 19 | Let's start with a time-proven classic Delta , for which we can use wooden dowels and two metres ( yards ) of any grade ripstop nylon . |
| 20 | We try to bring about an environment in which creativity can flourish by selecting people of outstanding ability who wish to work on a problem of their own choice and for which we can imagine a substantial outcome . |
| 21 | It has regular outbreaks , for which we can find no reason , of one particular disease . |
| 22 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 23 | This is because men can not properly develop their powers except in co-operation and friendship with others , and because the true goods of human life , those which we need for our own personal fulfilment , are not goods in some limited supply for which we must compete , but ones which each can the better enjoy , the more others are enjoying them . |
| 24 | This was most clearly shown by Paul Dirac 's formulation of the general principles of quantum theory , of which we shall give some account in the following chapter . |
| 25 | It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills . |
| 26 | Into the vacancy in men 's minds left by the retreat of the centennial myths of Christianity , crept strange cults and substitute faiths , some of which we shall look at in chapter ten . |
| 27 | Saussure speaks of semiology ( 1974 : 16 ) as a ‘ science that studies the life of signs within society ’ , a science of which we shall hear more in the chapter on modern French structuralism . |
| 28 | He first isolated pure lines of eight paired traits ; of which we shall confine ourselves to the lines of tall ’ and ‘ short ’ peas . |
| 29 | Other tribal cosmologies exhibit analogous features some of which we shall consider later . |
| 30 | Before we can proceed further we have to grasp a fundamental distinction which the Zande draw between two kinds of occult power , the first of which we shall call ‘ sorcery ’ and the second ‘ witchcraft ’ . |