Example sentences of "which [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one .
32 The rule of law thus described still prevails in the Probate Court , where it is not enough to prove a relation between testator and beneficiary , which in the court of equity would require the beneficiary to displace the presumption of undue influence by proving independent advice to the testator .
33 The civic grandeur of Liverpool , which in the middle of the nineteenth century was ever expanding on the most monumental scale , must have influenced Mr Bushnell 's taste , for he had strong views on what he wanted .
34 The nub of informed consent , they say , is that every human of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what will be done with his body , and they trace the history of informed consent citing the Nuremberg Code ( 1949 ) and the Declaration of Helsinki ( 1964 , amended 1983 ) , which in the aftermath of war atrocities , attempted to ensure the principle of informed consent .
35 In a complex web of mystifying deals , Hibs were held together by a financial structure which in the space of a few years involved a local bookmaker , an English based company with extensive leisure interests in the west country and a company registered in Panama called Charcoal Holdings .
36 Communication of data via computerised and electronic means is a relatively new mode of communications but one which in the space of about thirty years has revolutionised the way in which we use , store and transmit information and data .
37 Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world .
38 Its modern quays were well suited to accommodate the new large ships , known as cogs , which in the course of the second half of the twelfth century came to dominate the maritime trade of the Baltic , North Sea and Channel coasts .
39 Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change .
40 A ready way to identify substances which in the course of many thousands of years have come to be accepted as precious is to scan the windows of jewellers ' shops in Bond Street or the Burlington Arcade and their counterparts in the wealthiest cities of the western world .
41 To judge from the surviving traces , this applies more especially to communities which in the course of the last five millennia have dragged themselves from the morass of primitive communism and set their feet on ground firm enough to support civilized ways of life .
42 Er in fact the discussion on Friday was re tied back to the criterion in the County Council 's er policy which says , be capable of being assimilated satisfactorily into the local landscape which in the course of the discussion , was erm extended to also take on board the possibility that it could be located where it may produce environmental improvements on the use of derelict land .
43 The connoisseur also hopes to have in a drawing an authentic work by an artist 's own hand , which in the case of an oil painting may not be so assured .
44 The significant points to note from this passage are firstly the way in which the blood of delivery is unclean ; secondly the way in which in the case of a boy 's birth circumcision intrudes in the text and interrupts both the period of the mother 's pollution and the account of that pollution ; and thirdly , the way in which the woman is finally cleansed of her impurity through the blood of sacrifice as administered by a circumcised male .
45 Tests in the plusher environs of Philadelphia showed a distinction between chic and unchic speech which in the case of ‘ toilet ’ ( chic ) and ‘ lavatory ’ ( unchic ) was the precise opposite of Nancy Mitford 's rules for U and Non-U in England .
46 To these might be added ‘ binding ’ , which in the case of journals is often the most common reason for non-availability .
47 Scientific method involves the precise measurement of observable events , which in the case of learning meant studying the measurable changes in behaviour .
48 To the extent that activities are spontaneous it appears that they belong to the realm of the caused ( which in the case of biological process is obvious enough ) , and that he is a free agent only to the extent that he learns to direct them .
49 By using their monopoly power ( which in the case of the UK is protected by law ) they are able to increase their relative wages , veto industrial change and disrupt production for purely political reasons .
50 Units are permitted champions which in the case of Orcs and Goblins are called Bosses .
51 EGRET has the conventional components used in high-energy γ -ray telescopes : an anticoincidence system to discriminate against charged particles , a spark chamber system with interspersed pair conversion material to determine the trajectories of the secondary electron-positron pair , a triggering telescope that detects the presence of charged particles with the correct direction of motion , and an energy-measuring device , which in the case of EGRET is a NaI(Tl) crystal .
52 There are two key tasks in these areas : first , the regions have to be thoroughly surveyed , which in the case of elephants often involves tracking of tagged animals by VHF radio or even satellite .
53 Attending conferences and meetings of women 's organisations or asking to address groups of boys will provide an opportunity for frank discussion which in the case of boys is very inhibited in the presence of their female counterparts .
54 These constitute a form of indirect discrimination which in the case of turbans was fought successfully by a Sikh family under the terms of the 1976 Race Relations Act ( porn , 1985 ) .
55 Somehow , the châteaux owners have been able to persuade us that it is in our interest to pay for the wine before it has been bottled and to finance its cellar maturation , which in the case of the better wines takes from ten to fifteen or even twenty years .
56 Books , and there are so many of them , on Cicero 's political thought might at least note the desperate vagueness of his ideas on the provincials , which in the case of the Gauls amounted to contempt .
57 Equity , however , stepped in , and said that if there had been a variation of a deed by a simple contract ( which in the case of a lease required to be in writing would have to be evidenced by writing ) , the courts may give effect to it as is shown in Berry v. Berry [ 1929 ] 2 K.B .
58 Each four-vector has an invariant , which in the case of the space–time interval P 1 P 2 is Δs 2 .
59 By ‘ structure ’ Brooks meant the organization of meaning in the text , which in the case of good literature ( ‘ poetry ’ ) possessed a different character from that of ordinary discourse .
60 The following equations need to be estimated : , where P is the market price ( 310p ) , EX is the exercise or subscription price ( 255p ) , rf is the risk-free rate of interest ( 0.12 per cent ) , is the standard deviation of the security which in the case of Polly Peck is ( O.59 ) , t is the time to expiry as a fraction of a year ( 21/365=0.058 ) , C is the estimated value of the call which in this case is the value of a complete right , and e is the natural logarithm base ( 2.7183 ) .
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