Example sentences of "[prep] which one [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are far fewer areas in the simulated map about which one would risk a definitive statement than in the map from the unsimulated process . |
| 2 | To quote Bertrand Russell , every language has a structure about which one can say nothing in that language . |
| 3 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 4 | In this post-welfare state , travellers are reminded of their duty to give up their seat to old ladies by a designated seat , post offices can not trust the customers to queue so they erect mazes through which one must wind before being served . |
| 5 | There was frequently a hair-tidy of the same design on the dressing-table , a little dish with a lid , and a hole through which one could push the hair that came out on the comb . |
| 6 | At the end was an opening , now almost closed by the crowding trees and bushes , through which one could see the glimmer of the sea and the northernmost hill of the broch islet . |
| 7 | In the corner between the window and the fireside was a cupboard , apparently full of plates and dishes , cups and saucers , and some more nondescript articles , for which one would have fancied their possessors could find no use — such as triangular pieces of glass to save carving knives and forks from dirtying tablecloths . |
| 8 | It is a place of calm and classical beauty : I am afraid it is exactly the sort of place for which one must long most desperately when out of Greece . |
| 9 | Or it can be used to express requests for which one can assume willingness to comply : ( 209 ) ( She ) took me by the hand , and bidding me be of good cheer , set off with Gus in a coach , to pay a visit to those persons . |
| 10 | However , in practice at present , there are certainly intermediate flows of which one might give a detailed description for one purpose and a statistical one for another . |
| 11 | The first Carolingian king , Pippin I , in 754/5 had specified " concerning the mint , that of each pound of silver , not more than 22 solidi were to be minted , of which one must go to the moneyer and the rest to the lord [ king ] " : since the account pound used in normal business reckoning contained 20 solidi , Pippin was in effect decreeing a royal mint charge of 1 solidus , i.e. 5 per cent . |
| 12 | For sure , ‘ Hate My Way ’ is excellent , a whiplashed stab of emotions throughout which one can shiver along to the demons cartwheeling through Kristin 's mind . |
| 13 | It may be objected that the identification of such continuities bases a far-fetched proposition on simple coincidences , against which one can argue that it simply extends to the Reeve 's tale an alert manner of reading which has become absolutely orthodox in respect of the Miller 's Tale . |
| 14 | The lightheartedness with which one might watch it happen . |
| 15 | I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent . |
| 16 | I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent . |
| 17 | This account can be illustrated by considering his analysis of how discrimination training might increase the ease with which one can distinguish burgundy from claret . |
| 18 | In stratigraphy One is always using one ruler to measure another and one can only call a deposit exceptional if we have something more " normal " with which one can make a comparison . |
| 19 | A limitation is placed upon the accuracy with which one can specify the amount of energy transferred together with a knowledge of the time at which the transfer took place . |
| 20 | ‘ Serbian is the only language with which one can communicate with intelligent beings on other planets , ’ he assured parliament . |
| 21 | The ease with which one can learn a concept depends critically on the structure of the predicate p , which in turn depends on the description language . |
| 22 | I am gesturing here towards the so called method of reflective equilibrium whereby general ethical principles and particular ethical judgements , as they arise fairly spontaneously , are each reconsidered until a consistent position is found with which one can live . |
| 23 | In retrospect , the fact that perfect matches of other words or short word sequences can occur by accident in completely accurate transcriptions of sentences ( e.g. ‘ four ’ within ‘ California ’ ) should suggest that there is no magic threshold above which one can consider a given hypothesis correct without verifying its consistent extension to a complete spanning theory . |
| 24 | In September 1960 the General spoke of nation states as ‘ the only realities upon which one can build ’ and proposed to develop economic , cultural and defence co-operation through inter-governmental , not supranational , bodies . |
| 25 | However , the form which such support takes means that it is not the kind of support upon which one could rely . |
| 26 | As Le Cerf 's use of the terms ton and mode is somewhat confused this was perhaps exactly what he had in mind ; certainly his contemporary Michel de Saint Lambert was employing ton in the sense of a tonic upon which one could build a piece that was in either the major or minor mode . |
| 27 | There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race . |
| 28 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 29 | The skeletal muscles of insects have a complex structure , in which one may distinguish ( i ) the fibrous contractile system , ( ii ) the mitochondria , ( iii ) the tracheal and nervous supply , and ( iv ) the membrane systems ( Smith , 1961 — 66 ) . |
| 30 | The other interesting mixed show this week is the Bluecoat Christmas Annual , in which one may sense the up-and-coming nature of work in all media by Liverpool artists . |