Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unamuno also wrote : ‘ Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion ’ — a very Zen Buddhist concept of which I was to learn the truth in Salamanca . |
| 2 | I turned the pages ; but the top of the pew in front of me , upon which I was balancing the book , was narrow and my fingers cold . |
| 3 | A doubt grew into my mind : perhaps the whole certainty of purpose with which I was fighting the war was based on equally naive assumptions . |
| 4 | So you got ta weigh that up against er , doing two plans , which you 're paying the true cost of the benefits you would get . |
| 5 | Good balance is the effective control over your centre of gravity , relative to the direction in which you are delivering the ball . |
| 6 | Simple : the atomic reaction you expect is n't taking place , the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength . |
| 7 | Is not the difficulty in which you are placed the fact that there are now only four Government Back-Bench Members representing Scotland , and 63 of different parties on the Opposition side of the House ? |
| 8 | Blaise Cendrars witnessed a fight in which she was getting the better of Modigliani . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's a good sign , ’ she told the clipboard on which she was entering the details of his pulse rate . |
| 10 | Our eyes were glued to the large plate into which she was placing the cooked ones . |
| 11 | One friend has explained how , in a conversation in which she was lamenting the cost of electricity , Eliot asked her in a confidential manner , " Are you on the domestic tariff ? " |
| 12 | And that was when her conscience , which because she 'd got something else to think about had stayed quiet , suddenly started to get to her about the way in which she was deceiving the man she loved . |
| 13 | In late 1916 Nina Boyle went to Macedonia and Serbia to do war-relief work , for which she was awarded the Samaritan medal and the Allied medal . |
| 14 | Obviously we have n't gone for wholesale personnel changes , so you 're the hook on which we 're hanging the idea , a new programme manager whose own image is the station 's — young , smart , sophisticated and committed to the music . |
| 15 | but every now and then we get something with a special offer on which we 're getting the Kelloggs cornflake bowls at the moment . |
| 16 | So all I 'm saying is , if we 're not achieving that we need to go back and look at the way in which we 're operating the fax service , have a chat with erm Phil 's people or Jackie 's peo see if there 's any differences that we can take advantage of . |
| 17 | To criticise language for being ‘ misleading ’ as to the state of affairs in the real world is to tilt at windmills , because language is not so much a limpid pool through which we are to glimpse the truth as a muddy pond full of the debris of history and ideology . |
| 18 | High and low angles are often used as point-of-view shots in which we are seeing the scenes through the eyes of one of the characters . |
| 19 | Later that day , 15 Oct , at The Questors Theatre in Ealing , he will be the guest of honour at a fund-raising event for the Questors in which we are promised the opportunity to ‘ find out what makes a critic , what are his prejudices and his preferences , and what are his fears and hopes for British ( and world ) theatre . ’ |
| 20 | THE MINEMA IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE makes a welcome reopening with La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , the shorter version of Jacques Rivette 's splendid La Belle Noiseuse which runs for four hours and which we were shown the other day . |
| 21 | The Law Society and The Bar have today finalised an alternative package of measures which they are urging the government to accept in place of the Lord Chancellor 's proposed cuts to legal aid eligibility , which the Society calculates could mean that up to 12 million people would be unable to afford legal aid . |
| 22 | IT Division is organising the 1991 JFIT Conference at UMIST on the 9th–11th July with the primary aim of discussing objectives of the JFIT programmes and they way in which they are meeting the requirements of users . |
| 23 | The theme of the 1991 JFIT Conference is ‘ steering research towards user requirements ’ and the main aim of the Conference will be to discuss the objectives of the programmes funded under JFIT and assess the ways in which they are meeting the requirements of the users . |
| 24 | To illustrate the type of problems encountered and the extent to which they are overcome the process of forward planning of student numbers is chosen as a test case . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State may , having regard to section 2 of this Act , give directions to the Group as to the manner in which they are to implement the disposal programme generally or in any case specified in the directions . |
| 26 | So people have been forced to look at the way in which they are doing the work in er conjunction with er the manual for whatever other book of rules they have I wished they 'd do they carry out their work . |
| 27 | The difference between the rhetorical and social representational approaches can be illustrated by considering a quotation from Moscovici ( 1984 ) , in which he is discussing the social nature of social representations : ‘ The word ‘ social ’ was meant to indicate that representations are the outcome of an unceasing babble and a permanent dialogue between individuals , a dialogue that is both internal and external , during which representations are echoed or complemented ’ ( Moscovici , 1984 : 950 ) . |
| 28 | His is the name that will sell The Miser , the Moliere comedy in which he 's travelling the country . |
| 29 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 30 | The first of these , Sea Change , was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1948 and in an interview the author explained the way in which he was using the adventure-story genre : |