Example sentences of "which [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hellish glow , Kirov 's eyes roamed the shelves , seeking out a bottle of chemical poison with which to arrange a fatal accident . |
| 2 | Where the Commission opens proceedings , it then has a further four months in which to issue a final decision . |
| 3 | The consciousness of absolute dependence , which he can also sometimes call simply , ‘ God-consciousness ’ , might at first sight seem a slender thread indeed on which to suspend a comprehensive statement of all the themes of Christian theology . |
| 4 | The indirect processes are , usually , the easiest with which to obtain a tolerable result , but it is difficult to use them well . |
| 5 | He chose Ottery as the place in which to found a religious community , and in 1337 obtained the king 's licence to make the church a collegiate foundation , whose members were to include a warden , a minister , a chanter , and eight choral vicars . |
| 6 | Touche Ross have three months in which to find a new buyer before reporting to Quietwaters creditors . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the tenant should insist that he be given a reasonable rent-free period in which to find a new subtenant . |
| 8 | The steadily rising interest in many countries in hydrology in all its branches makes this an opportune time in which to launch a new Journal concerned with the scientific aspects of the subject . |
| 9 | Break it to go round a planting bed , make a circle on which to stand a large plant pot or statue , or to give a paved area around a rotary clothes dryer . |
| 10 | For both groups , comedy was the obvious medium with which to reach a wide audience . |
| 11 | A fully programmable drum machine with 250 stunning AWM voices , a complete range of preset patterns and fills and a selection of programmable bass instruments from which to create a full backing track . |
| 12 | Teachers taking part will be asked to work in threes , each group being given a theme or aspect around which to devise a short combination of movements . |
| 13 | Some co-operative stores were started , with the immediate object of consumer protection but also to accumulate money with which to finance a co-operative community . |
| 14 | Demirel was permitted 45 days in which to form a new administration , failing which President Turgut Özal would have the option of calling a fresh election . |
| 15 | Lithuania agreed as part of the agreement to construct housing for servicemen in Kaliningrad ( Russian territory separated from Russia proper by Lithuania ) in exchange for receiving hardware from the Baltic Fleet as a basis on which to form a Lithuanian navy . |
| 16 | Should circumstances dictate that a spare tank is not available then you can divide off one end of a community tank in an emergency and use this in which to keep a single fish or a breeding pair or whatever . |
| 17 | He was then fourteen years old , a rather late age at which to start a formal education . |
| 18 | There they are busily ferreting away food , medical supplies and weapons with which to build a new world after the current one is reduced to a moist cinder . |
| 19 | Once planted , and whether 10 or 50ft high , a tree becomes a focal point around which to build a complete plant community . |
| 20 | But the natural theologians ' assumption that God had designed a harmonious order of Nature was hardly a suitable basis upon which to build a modern science . |
| 21 | Amongst the alleged uses were the refinancing of the government-owned airline , hurricane relief , the purchase of stock in the Bank of Tonga , and the acquisition of land in London upon which to build a high commission . |
| 22 | Leese , however , was unhappy with Stamford , realising it was a ‘ poor base from which to run a national revolution ’ , and in 1927 he moved to Guildford where he formed the Imperial Fascist League . |
| 23 | Is not that a terrible record on which to fight a general election , in which the Government will be defeated ? |
| 24 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , there is no ‘ right time ’ to induce nor any conclusive data on which to base a rational decision . |
| 26 | Local firms were to provide the skills in political manoeuvring , multinationals the technology and the state to supply the institutions and the arena in which to forge a common set of goals to unite the alliance and manage the national economy . |
| 27 | Managers could perhaps arrange for practitioners to be allocated specific time in which to develop a clinical teaching role , enabling them to improve their skills and abilities and to return to the ward or practice area with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 28 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 29 | One can piece his ideas together from his mammoth output , but there is no single source from which to develop a definitive statement of the role of political action in capitalism . |
| 30 | Kluck 's was a fateful decision , and Galliéni , studying maps and reports in his Paris headquarters , saw at once the manner in which to deliver a decisive blow . |