Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said to be the tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself , after which its pink blossom turned dark red in shame . |
| 2 | A push from a simple starter will set them rolling , after which their tractive tyres will accelerate them automatically . |
| 3 | That should deal with some of the problems about which my hon. Friend is concerned . |
| 4 | I turn , briefly , to the case of the medicentre proposal at the Heath hospital , Cardiff about which my hon. Friend is concerned . |
| 5 | Obviously victimisation is a very relevant matter , about which my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) made a number of important points . |
| 6 | Inspectors , it is reported , discovered that two farmers had not declared their income for 11 years during which their actual earnings were £900,000 and £250,000 . |
| 7 | But IRAS is only a survey telescope , with simple detectors and a planned lifetime of around seven months , during which its main task is to sweep the entire sky and catalogue the sources it finds . |
| 8 | Tory had ridden for Bailey in two spells , during which his biggest success came on Docklands Express in the 1991 Whitbread Gold Cup . |
| 9 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 10 | The most important element of this optimism is that the counselling approach implies that growth is a continuous process during which our potential capacities can be drawn upon and developed at any period of life , including old age . |
| 11 | These fibres connect to the peripheral nervous system , through which our sensory faculties operate and with those nerves which govern physical movement by muscular control . |
| 12 | He is younger than Howard expected , with crisp curly hair , full smooth cheeks which are just about to smile , at his own jokes , but never quite do , and thick horn-rimmed spectacles through which his magnified eyes watch carefully to estimate audience reaction . |
| 13 | They embody one of South Africa 's great wrongs — and one for which we British share responsibility with the Boers . |
| 14 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 15 | The Sardinians were great experts in both activities for which their remote dwellings surrounded by rich Tuscan pastures were the ideal environment . |
| 16 | When it came to women , there was a flurry of gender-specific arguments : printing was " a calling for which their delicate frames are wholly unsuited " . |
| 17 | Barcelona only released Koeman after the Dutch Football Federation had threatened both the club and the Spanish FA with legal action over a clause which stipulates the number of matches for which their foreign-based players have to be released during the season . |
| 18 | Institutional factors are one further area for which our critical practice needs to account . |
| 19 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 20 | His aim was to eliminate the importation of distilled spirits , for which his main rationale was the damage they did to health . |
| 21 | Stones in the bladder were a very common ailment in middle life , and something for which my first aid training had given me no preparation . |
| 22 | I hope that the results of the public inquiry will be announced shortly and that the advance works on the link can be started before the end of the year , although that depends wholly on the outcome of the general election , because , as I said , the Opposition are committed to reducing expenditure on roads and vital pieces of road infrastructure such as that for which my hon. Friend rightly argues would be threatened by a Labour Government . |
| 23 | I appreciate the high taste in satorial elegance for which my hon. Friend is well known . |
| 24 | This is something for which my hon. Friends and I have pressed for some time . |
| 25 | The third common expression for which my journalistic curiosity found the origin , was ‘ Hobson 's choice ’ . |
| 26 | Each phospholipid series is characterised by a phase transition , below which its fatty acyl chains are in a quasi-crystalline array and above which the chains are in a more fluid state . |
| 27 | Strawson 's claim is that abnormal behaviour , as its name implies , is defined negatively as behaviour towards which our normal responses are not fitting . |
| 28 | It is the quest to think of that peculiar essence of which its physical nature is the more or less full actualisation . |
| 29 | ‘ She says she feels sick and ca n't eat anything — on top of which her right side is giving her pain . |
| 30 | It embarrassed him still more when she arrived dressed for bed herself as well , a complex bundle of diaphanous nightwear from the midst of which her poised cigarette arm stuck out oddly , like an awkward projection emrging from some ill-wrapped Christmas parcel . |