Example sentences of "[prep] which one would [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 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 .
3 What is reading ? — a simple question to which one would expect a simple answer .
4 But if time is not too desperately important it is one way of seeing a vast stretch of surprising and magnificent country , some interesting and unspoiled old towns , perhaps even of discovering some village in the heart of the still primitive agricultural Auvergne , some little-known hotel where one would like to stay instead of hurrying on , to which one would return another year .
5 There would be no singularities at which the laws of science broke down and no edge of space-time at which one would have to appeal to God or some new law to set the boundary conditions for space-time .
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