Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] which the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this approach has severe limitations , since at any level there are alternative interpretations ( i.e. ambiguity ) within the data for which the appropriate information is instantly available at some other level . |
| 2 | BEYOND DOUBT , the aircraft with which the Imperial Japanese forces fought their Pacific War are the least well known by enthusiasts . |
| 3 | The Gamecock ; a single seat fighter plane , best remembered as the aircraft in which the famous pilot , Douglas Bader crashed and lost his legs . |
| 4 | The cover under this section of the policy applies to delay in the departure from or return to UK of ship or aircraft on which the insured is booked to travel . |
| 5 | Assuming there is no change in the relevant law , the data on which the aggregated tables is based will not be available for nearly a hundred years , and we have to keep this timescale in mind when planning for the future . |
| 6 | Our final task in this chapter is to bring together , for reference , a selection of the quantitative data by which the stylistic analysis of our three passages is supported . |
| 7 | But there are other less obvious losses that happen to some people for which the grieving and mourning patterns are just as relevant . |
| 8 | He would be the means through which the Seven would be destroyed ; not as Berdichev had imagined , from without , but from within . |
| 9 | These were the mere surface indicators of deeper problems , the media through which the deep , internal cultural and economic pressures at work within German society showed themselves . |
| 10 | In 1989 , 1990 and 1991 New Millennium holidays have attracted a lot of favourable comments in the news media of which the following are a few examples : |
| 11 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 12 | Some of Thomas Hardy 's leading characters are relentlessly pursued by fate ; they come to grief through sequences of evil coincidences no less remarkable than those by means of which the earlier heroes of Evangelical literature had been saved . |
| 13 | He also ventured a definition of hegemony , ‘ the totality of all laws and other arrangements by means of which the leading power of a union of states can give the community the desired direction and the stamp of its own spirit . |
| 14 | Each one of those millions of evolutionary changes by means of which the single cell multiplied and diversified into the vast complexity of all living things , was either ‘ good ’ , and contributing towards the development of the human being of today , or ‘ not good ’ and was therefore continuing the development of what was , or would become , a non-human species , or lost to evolution by bringing about the extinction of a species . |
| 15 | As C. D. Burns remarked in 1924 : " We have … developed in England a compromise by means of which the educational system is in great part a State system and the standard of education is largely set by the universities free from state control . " |
| 16 | Taxation is no more than a quantification machinery by means of which the recoverable amount of costs , disbursements , expenses , etc. is ascertained . |
| 17 | This divergence between collective and individual rationality is not encountered when the means by which the real wage is reduced is via an increase in the absolute price level . |
| 18 | What the structure tries to provoke , though , is an awareness that the maintenance of self-control is the means by which the wider social and ultimately religious fabric is controlled . |
| 19 | It is clear from this that for Rolle prayer was the most important exercise by which the reality of faith is realised , which is why he deals with it first after the section on the necessity for patience in adversity : Prayer is the means by which the transforming dynamic of the love of God is accessed in the innermost marrow ( " inhirliest mergh " ) of our hearts ( 7.118.28 ) and labour becomes light ( 11.123.30 ) . |
| 20 | Warfare was the means by which the upper classes provided themselves with exercise and occupation , and justified their existence . |
| 21 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 22 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 23 | A provision may be a substantive rule : it may be optional ; illustrative ; mandatory ; or procedural ( a means by which the substantive rules are to be implemented ) . |
| 24 | It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow . |
| 25 | By institutionalising conflict , party politics provides the means by which the accumulated potential of passionate conviction may be so far discharged as to avoid its most damaging manifestations : where the resources available to the forces for and against change are evenly balanced , civil war ; where they are greater for those against change , repression ; and where they are greater for those for change , revolution . |
| 26 | Rather , as in Out and Such , the structure of the novel reflects the means by which the day-to-day world is apprehended . |
| 27 | Then , just at the moment when the full sacrilege of what happened is described , there is a change of tone as Rolle initiates the seventh rhyme scheme chiming with ryng , and refocuses the actions of hideous brutality as the means by which the voluntary ring-dance of love is patterned . |
| 28 | This view left room for considerable differences of opinion as to the means by which the labouring poor should be encouraged to work — by coercion or persuasion ; as to the degree to which those who worked could provide for all their needs , such as their children 's education , housing , sickness , old age , widowhood , or required support from the state in some or all of these circumstances ; and as to the degree of culpability of those who did not provide for themselves . |
| 29 | In short , it is not enough to discover needs and legislate to meet them ; the actual means by which the legislative intentions are put into practice are of equal importance . |
| 30 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |