Example sentences of "[prep] which [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banbury offered a bright and clear window through which to view national developments across the 1960s , and into the 1970s . |
| 2 | They have therefore left us with an unusually rich source of material through which to examine several questions about psychosis and creativity already raised , but as yet unanswered , in this and the previous chapter . |
| 3 | A TV screen is a dangerous medium through which to judge any sport , particularly boxing . |
| 4 | If the intellectual lead in the area of biology gradually switched to Germany in the course of the mid-century , Paris had already established the ideal framework through which to promote scientific research into animals and plants . |
| 5 | Even when , sixteen years later in 1833 , he saw in trade unionism the instrument through which to establish industrial democracy , the change was to be painless , to steal upon the country unaware , ‘ like a thief in the night ’ . |
| 6 | Lastly , its own functions as a bank combined with its size and its relationship to the government provide a third channel through which to influence financial markets . |
| 7 | There is a recurrent failure not only to ground the subject fully in its historical context , but also to propose an adequate theoretical model by means of which to assess socialist realist literature . |
| 8 | It is probably as well to pause here a moment , in order to take a few social bearings against which to judge these accusations . |
| 9 | This provided a series of standardized measures against which to evaluate individual Projects , while at the same time laying down broader objectives for the whole Programme . |
| 10 | By taking account of business and other operational plans , such as changes in working practices , projections are made over a five-year period to provide base information against which to evaluate alternative strategies on staffing requirements and costs . |
| 11 | So far I have left open the question of whether Maastricht is likely to prove to have been the high-water mark of European Federalism or merely a bench-mark against which to test future movement towards a Federalist state . |
| 12 | This forms a base against which to compare future progress . |
| 13 | Perusing my library shelves recently , in a largely fruitless search for scholarly references with which to stiffen this article , I came across some evidence supporting that contention . |
| 14 | All the players gave this exhibition free of charge and , with the resulting revenue , the trust was able to set up a fund with which to promote junior golf on Jersey . |
| 15 | Early on , the Congress won the right to control Russia 's central bank , which has since kept on printing money with which to subsidize bankrupt enterprises , thereby undermining Yeltsin 's efforts to engineer economic reform . |
| 16 | ‘ Dr Strangelove ’ was not to be imagined for a few more years but it was n t reassuring to learn that nuclear submarine crews were supplied with pistols with which to shoot any shipmate who showed signs of wanting to fire an unauthorized missile . |
| 17 | We published Agenda for the 90's , a statement of RIBA policies ranging from Housing to the Environment and used it as a tool with which to lobby parliamentary candidates for the General Election . |
| 18 | However Lucretius recognized the problem of cohesion and suggested that the atoms of strong materials were provided with hooks with which to grip each other . |
| 19 | The original PSSRU schemes used shadow budgets for the case management teams ( up to the value of two thirds of the cost of residential care ) , but also gave them an allocation of money with which to purchase those services which were not readily available and which , although small , would make all the difference to keeping the client at home . |
| 20 | It can be manipulated in the imagination and then used as a new model with which to compare other structures . |
| 21 | There are virtually no placebo controlled trials of acute relapse of extensive ulcerative colitis with which to compare these results , and such a trial would be unethical . |
| 22 | Furthermore , unoperated controls should be included in every experiment as a further standard with which to compare experimental embryos and as a routine screen of the culture system . |
| 23 | If we regard He as representing [ — ego , — tu ] , then we have a valuable insight with which to read those sonnets where the Friend 's behaviour is criticized by the Poet from a position of detachment . |
| 24 | MODERN technology has given geologists a variety of methods with which to find new deposits of metals . |
| 25 | According to Rowthorn , multinational B 's operating unit in nation state l might be appropriated by the left government and sold off to help provide funds with which to compensate multinational A for the appropriation of its operating unit in nation state 2 ( in order to reduce the chances of direct counter-revolutionary intervention by other states ) . |
| 26 | It was to fill a gap in the provision of two-year courses , was to be offered as ‘ a genuine and useful addition to those forms of higher education already available ’ , would have the same entry qualifications as for degrees , and could be either a terminal qualification with which to enter appropriate forms of employment , or provide a foundation ‘ for further study and be designed , where appropriate , in such a way as to earn credit towards other qualifications , including degrees and the requirements of professional bodies ’ . |
| 27 | I have found it impossible to convince young people in the latter stages of their compulsory education of the need to gain skills with which to enter full-time work . |
| 28 | ‘ I use the sides of the sticks to create bold strokes with which to cover large areas quickly . |
| 29 | The Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) emphasised in stronger terms the problems associated with financial change and maintained that it is impossible to define money , because there is no clear criterion with which to determine those assets that are part of the money supply . |
| 30 | From Dixons , we will hear that the company should retain its independence because its current trading woes are a product of a consumer squeeze over which it has no control and because it will make lots of money when times get better and we have more spare cash with which to buy new tellies , video recorders , fridges etc . |