Example sentences of "and [prep] which [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Its technicalities interest the men above all else , and it is the activity upon which they spend most of their energy and about which they talk endlessly ( Maybury-Lewis 1971 : 33 ) .
2 The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy .
3 The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy .
4 My interest at the time was in describing the close bonds of friendship women often from , an intimacy rarely found amongst men and about which I spoke on Women 's Hour .
5 The main point about which the board will resist sideways drift and about which it turns .
6 He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters .
7 The Department 's courses accordingly aim to give an understanding of what German writers and thinkers have had to say in the past of the age and the society within which and for which they wrote and make students familiar with contemporary life and literature , art and film in the German-speaking countries .
8 I am certain that with no additional resource , we can do more for our researchers than provide then with yet another data archive where they can deposit the materials which they developed with inadequate support and for which they got too little recognition .
9 Undoubtedly there are factors over which the courts have no control , and for which they have no responsibility .
10 That was all set out in the recent Security Council resolution to which I referred in my reply and for which we voted .
11 The Board 's role had been afforced through its assumption of providing powers under the Bedfordshire scheme and through its close co-operative relationships with the Rural Community Council ( RCC ) in Cambridgeshire and for which it provided a series of courses in that county .
12 As such , the best cross section of Charlie Parker here is ‘ The Charlie Parker Story ’ , all of whose takes are from the 26/11/45 session , and for which I award the extra half star .
13 Further to our telephone conversation last week , I am writing to inform you of the changes of circumstances concerning the above policy , which I had completely forgotten to do , and for which I apologize .
14 ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’
15 ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’
16 This perhaps accounts for the gout from which he suffered in 1771 and for which he collected prescriptions from friends .
17 North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution .
18 He attended many Royal assizes and many quarter sessions and with Sir John Leveson and Lord Cobham he attended musters , which were called to train all able bodied men , and for which he purchased his own suit of armour .
19 The fact that the Queen was pro-German would have been particularly hurtful to the Emperor personally , for only he had not succumbed to the general enthusiasm for a war he had never wanted and for which he feared the country was ill-prepared .
20 To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed .
21 It must be incarnated in the world Christ came to redeem , in which he is already present , and for which he has prepared a transformed future .
22 ‘ If intercourse under the circumstances now in question constitute an assault on the part of the man , it must constitute rape , unless indeed , as between married persons rape is impossible , a proposition to which I certainly am not prepared to assent , and for which there seems to me to he no sufficient authority …
23 As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik .
24 It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed .
25 College Report has recorded over the years most of Marjorie Boulton 's considerable output of writing , both in English and in Esperanto , a field in which she has become a leading international figure and through which she has enjoyed much travel and many friendships .
26 They set a time , however , within which the coheir should set to construction , and after which they wished Procula alone to construct , imputing costs to her coheir for his share .
27 Cliff Richard has met Mother Theresa and after which he said that he would never be the same again .
28 But we are often faced with the experienced need to make ‘ sense ’ of our lives and our feelings and goals , to relate confused fragments of ourselves into something that seems more coherent and of which we feel more in control .
29 But as he grew older , and felt the signs of decay in his mortal body , he rejoiced to think that his inner man was being renewed every day , until he should attain that ‘ being at home with the Lord ’ to which his whole Christian life was directed and of which he had been given the Holy Spirit as a guarantee ( 2 Cor. 4 : 16f , 5:1ff , 5,8 ) .
30 A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’
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