Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [prep] which [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
| 2 | There are some phenomena of which it is very difficult to give children direct experience in the classroom . |
| 3 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 4 | There are very few cases in which it is automatic for one relative to offer support and unproblematic for the other to accept it . |
| 5 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 6 | Indeed in some cases in which there is a persistent failure to comply and no apparent harm to the watercourse , agency staff tend to assume that the standards may be too tight , as a senior official suggested : |
| 7 | We may often be sure that we can judge by the quality of the drawing or painting , but there are always at least some cases in which our uncertainty is deepened by the absence of the expected signal , that it is or is not intended to be art . |
| 8 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 9 | At last , after skirting carefully round some openings from which there was a distinct smell of rats , they halted in a kind of pit . |
| 10 | There were few subjects on which he did not have firm opinions . |
| 11 | I append the headings of a few subjects to which I have given some attention , and which I could write a readable article upon . |
| 12 | It would seem then to fall to those staff who happen to be bilingual , or to those few teachers who are actually engaged in the teaching of community languages , to raise general awareness in the few schools in which they are deployed . |
| 13 | But there is also a more general competition and conflict among nation states , some aspects of which I discussed in Chapter 5 , that has proved so far impossible to overcome , or even to moderate substantially . |
| 14 | However , there are some matters on which we will seek clarification or assurance . |
| 15 | I was lucky to have chosen to work in theoretical physics because that was one of the few areas in which my condition would not be a serious handicap . |
| 16 | Tower Hamlets , acting under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1967 , required Chetnik to pay rates on the buildings over a period of some years during which they were unoccupied because tenants could not be found . |
| 17 | What we need is , firstly , a more specific indication of what is meant by a route to chaos and , secondly , some ideas on which we can draw in Sections 24.5 and 24.7 . |
| 18 | Two of the screen 's toughest tough guys , James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart , each won his only Oscar in one of the few films in which he played a goody : Yankee Doodle Dandy and The African Queen respectively . |
| 19 | However there are some conditions in which they give more useful correction and they may therefore be provided for visually handicapped children . |
| 20 | There are only a few studies with which we can illustrate this approach . |
| 21 | On the one hand , cognitive-behavioural interventions with a high turnover and short contact have yielded promising results in the few studies in which they have been attempted . |
| 22 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 23 | ‘ I have already packed the few things to which she is entitled , in a small box . |
| 24 | ‘ It is one of the few things in which I excel , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 25 | I was at a temporal disadvantage , for some things to which he made reference were unknown to me . |
| 26 | There may be some pleasures for which it is worth risking one 's life but to do so for a cigarette is an illustration of the sheer insanity of addictive disease . |
| 27 | In this essay , I have attempted to suggest some ways in which we might look beyond the conceptual dichotomy between ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ , villagers and bureaucrats , to ask how the dynamic of interaction across the boundary is played out . |
| 28 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 29 | Should anyone be interested , I would gladly co-ordinate their efforts — one of the few ways in which I might be able to help the Society from this distance ’ . |
| 30 | There are certainly some situations in which it would be seen as entirely inappropriate , for example in relationships between grandchildren and their grandparents , where support is normally given from the older to the younger generation , but in the form of a gift . |