Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] which the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desquamation A process in which the outer layer of the skin is removed by buffing , rubbing or sloughing , descaling or exfoliation . |
| 2 | The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years . |
| 3 | While the organism remains filled with the life force , it can counter the disintegration and decay to which the non-living world is subject . |
| 4 | This is fairer as it allows for the fact that fewer overs remain in which the chasing team can attack , but does not set a rate out of proportion with the course of the match up to the time of the stoppage . |
| 5 | The head of department , for example , depicted the library project as something which had to be seen as a specific development in the context of a GRIDS exercise in which the broad range of curricular provision came under consideration . |
| 6 | What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? |
| 7 | Since setting up UA 's London office in 1961 , George Ornstein had already launched the ‘ James Bond ’ series with Dr No ( 1962 ) , From Russia With Love ( 1963 ) and Goldfinger ( 1964 ) , establishing the world of glamour , action and intrigue in which the neo-thug Bond moved , each time taking on an evil villain bent on destroying and dominating the world , but always finding time to tryst with beautiful girls in exotic locations . |
| 8 | This is a powerful department , partly because of its responsibility for ensuring the financial health of the company but also because it controls the language and format in which the other functions draw up their expenditure plans and report progress against them . |
| 9 | Elite autonomy means simply that circumstances exist in which the political elites representing a given social group can bargain on behalf of ‘ their ’ communities without fearing that compromises will lead to their removal and the substitution of a new elite for the social group . |
| 10 | We come now to a full post-production assemble edit in which the camera-original material is completely re-arranged as it is copied onto a second tape . |
| 11 | SO WE 'RE here in the snakepit , the triangular enclave towards the rear of Metallica 's ( by any standards remarkable ) stage-set in which the chosen few can stand a sweat 's breath from their heroes and risk a perforated eardrum from the pyrotechnics that are periodically unleashed just over one 's left shoulder . |
| 12 | ‘ Exceptional periods … occur in which the warring classes balance each other so nearly that the state power , as ostensible mediator , momentarily acquires a certain degree of independence of both ’ ( Engels , 1978 , p. 208 ) . |
| 13 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |