Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] which [art] " in BNC.

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1 The chair , wheelchair or commode onto which the patient is transferring is placed on one side of the carer , sideways on to the bed .
2 It is the holder of prepared fleece or flax from which the spinner draws out strands .
3 The ‘ stope ’ , or place from which the rock is dug , becomes , at the end of the operation , just a cavity in the rockface , at which point it becomes a ‘ gunnis ’ .
4 ( 5 ) Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice any liability or remedy to which a person guilty of an offence thereunder may be subject in civil proceedings .
5 In the present case , the immediate proceeding in which the order was made was not the cause or matter to which the section refers .
6 However , a good deal of discretion is left in the hands of the Area Director to determine the merits of the application , having considered ‘ … all questions of fact or law arising out of the action , cause or matter to which the application relates and the circumstances in which it was made . ’
7 In open savannah , gregarious species forage in flocks from colonies or roosts from which the daily dispersal occurs .
8 These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all .
9 The dorsal and lateral margins of the occipital foramen are commonly bordered by a narrow rim or postocciput with which the neck membrane is directly continuous .
10 In the absence of an express obligation , the landlord will have no duty to keep in repair any pipe or drain through which the tenant discharges soil or water , even if the pipe or drain is retained in the possession of the landlord ( Westminster ( Duke ) v Guild [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 144 ) .
11 A word grammatically related to a word that follows it , especially the noun or pronoun to which a relative pronoun is related .
12 ( 2 ) Serious litigation or disputes in which the target is involved and which could have a serious effect on the business should be considered .
13 The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided .
14 The notice given should be reasonable , and the date , time and place at which the applicant 's attendance is required should be specified , with a reference to the relevant section of the Act , viz. 5.15 .
15 When the revolutions of 1989 brought down the eastern bloc dictatorships , they swept away the façade of historical half-truths , distortions and lies on which the ruling élites grounded their legitimacy .
16 They suggested that pupil results should be presented as an attainment profile and that for each subject there should be a very small number of ‘ profile components ’ which reflected the variety of knowledge skills and understanding to which a study of the subject gave rise .
17 In this movement , Hegel saw the very rhythm of reality itself , both as a whole and in every part , and also the dynamics of knowledge and understanding by which the initial gulf between subject and object is bridged in genuine synthesis , the act of cognition .
18 The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) .
19 While the organism remains filled with the life force , it can counter the disintegration and decay to which the non-living world is subject .
20 Pollution and the removal of riverside hedges have played their part ; but above all , dredging and drainage have ironed out the varied bed conditions of gravel and silt to which the larvae of these and many other insects were so minutely adapted .
21 Frequently the transition is managed with a back and forth movement , a re-meeting and re-parting by which the slow process of building separate lives is accomplished .
22 Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government .
23 What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ?
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 WALSINGHAM became a shrine to Our Lady at a difficult time when the Turks overran the Holy Land and stopped pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Nazareth for which the English were already renowned .
27 Their main role is providing ideas and means by which the world can be investigated sociologically ; in Lakato 's words , they represent a discipline 's " research programmes " .
28 Chernenko stressed the need to remove the ‘ oversimplified impression of the means and dates by which a transition to the higher stage of communism ’ would take place , and argued that the new programme should provide a ‘ realistic ’ evaluation of developed socialism , which would be an ‘ historically protracted period ’ .
29 whether in solution or in the melt , are capable of supporting tension , and flows in which the tensor is diagonal are termed extensional flows .
30 There is a useful general classification into two types : flows in which turbulent motion first occurs in small patches , and flows in which the randomness characteristic of turbulence develops at a roughly equal rate throughout the transition region .
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