Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in society at large the position and role of each individual was strictly prescribed by his or her position within the group or groups to which he or she belonged , and the position of that group in relation to other groups and society as a whole . |
| 2 | Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken . |
| 3 | There 's certainly no way we can shorten it and in fact erm s programme timing is very dependent on the ease or difficulty with which we actually get the land . |
| 4 | In the period following the execution of the Demoiselles Picasso 's art was informed by two main principles or types of tribal art , the one flatter , more abstract and remote from European art , in which the basic planes of the face are differentiated not by relief but by the directions of the striations or hatchings with which they are covered , the other more solid , sculptural , three-dimensional and naturalistic . |
| 5 | Problems with a terminal or page printer would be considered a lower level problem than a problem with the disk units or processor for which we have no spares . |
| 6 | Satraps led contingents from their satrapies in the great battles against Greeks or Macedonians of which we hear in Herodotus or the Alexander-historians ; they also levied troops for less grand operations . |
| 7 | Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed . |
| 8 | Pupils will be required to make good any damage or loss for which they are responsible . |
| 9 | In England , for example , a brewer is disqualified from acting as a licensing justice only in the county or borough in which he is a brewer . |
| 10 | Delay in departure of the ship or aircraft in which you are booked to travel . |
| 11 | But that entity is not , by definition , the properties of the word or words by which it is identified . |
| 12 | He liked to boast that , in central London , he was never more than a couple of hundred yards from some club , institution or association of which he was a member and which could provide , at the very least , a roof in a rainstorm . |
| 13 | There was n't a rehearsal in either Vienna or Salzburg at which I was n't present . |
| 14 | He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) . |
| 15 | The difference between mental health and mental ill-health is not in whether or not defences are used but in the flexibility or rigidity with which they are employed and in the mix between them , as opposed to the over-use of one defence rather than others . |
| 16 | The great families of Rome had fortified towers or residences from which they might control the main routes in and out of the city . |
| 17 | Devotees of Pevsner know , on opening a volume of The Buildings of England , to look for the section headed ‘ Perambulation ’ for whichever town or village in which they happen to find themselves . |
| 18 | The law defines conservation areas as ‘ areas of special architectural or historic interest , the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance ’ . |
| 19 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 20 | There may be a variety of ground rules or conventions to which you and the other party must adhere during the negotiation . |
| 21 | Many press releases are poorly written , irrelevant to the newspaper or journal to which they have been sent , often are mailed to the wrong person on a publication , and are incredibly boring . |
| 22 | Alternatively , an individual may be significantly restricted as to the condition , manner or duration under which they can perform a major life activity as compared to an average person . |
| 23 | It will not necessarily operate in the interest of those classes or fractions from which it is drawn . |
| 24 | ‘ If a creditor has actual or constructive notice , at the time of the execution of the charge or guarantee in question , that the guarantee or charge on which it relies has been procured by the exercise of undue influence , it can not enforce the transaction ; an equity is raised against the creditor irrespective of any question of agency … |
| 25 | ‘ If a creditor has actual or constructive notice , at the time of the execution of the charge or guarantee in question , that the guarantee or charge on which it relies has been procured by the exercise of undue influence , it can not enforce the transaction ; an equity is raised against the creditor irrespective of any question of agency . |
| 26 | Therefore , in the following discussion , the emphasis will be on the political practices of the transnational capitalist class ( TCC ) and the groups or classes with which it has its most significant contacts . |
| 27 | The radio , TV or other source of sound should be stood on a thick felt or cork pad to help prevent the vibrations getting into the structure through the table or shelf on which it resides . |
| 28 | Long before California and Australia elected to name their wines after the grape variety or varieties from which they were produced , Alsace was already doing just that . |
| 29 | Some of Hyam 's most impressive passages describe male bisexuality : in many of the cultures which the British conquered or governed , sexual relations between men carried none of the odium or guilt to which they were subject in the United Kingdom ( particularly from the 1890s ) , and he has unearthed much evidence of cheerful , matter-of-fact but discreetly conducted sexual relations between British men overseas . |
| 30 | What was intriguing was that after the gentleman in question had filled in his first , second and third name there was room on the form , if he felt so inclined , to tell us the ‘ forename or nickname by which you are popularly known ’ . |