Example sentences of "which a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , said Mrs Thatcher , when she informed Cabinet colleagues of her decision to stand down , a ‘ funny old world ’ in which a Prime Minister with her record of electoral success should find it necessary to resign . |
| 2 | A purchase or redemption by a company of its own shares increases the percentage which a remaining block of shares represents and can result in a shareholder or group of shareholders obtaining control of that company . |
| 3 | This is the first occasion on which a Roman horde in Britain has been correctly excavated and much new information about the burial of such treasures is expected as a result . |
| 4 | Ionization is the process by which a fast-moving quantity of energy is transferred , leaving them as electrically charged ions . |
| 5 | A fire would always be an easy thing from which a superhuman creature like the monster could escape . |
| 6 | Monday 's display ran like clockwork , opening and closing of course with Sally B , in between which a veritable pageant of flight took place , ranging from the Barnstorming Days with the Crunchie Stearman trio , Dragon Rapide G–AKIF and the Tiger Moth Diamond Nine team ( the latter operating eight Tigers and a Hornet Moth ) , Biplane Warplanes involved the Shuttleworth Collection 's Hawker Hind and Gloster Gladiator ( making first appearance at GWAD ) and recently — revitalised Swordfish LS326 of the Navy 's Historic Flight . |
| 7 | For example , they may frequently be given a role in maintaining employment and thus helping to preserve the political accommodations between classes upon which a successful response to the crisis depends ; this may conflict with their central role in the restructuring of industries in crisis . |
| 8 | The removal of Barbe and Celor from the leadership in August 1931 , and the growing stature of Thorez within the party , conspired to create a situation in which a final decision on cultural policy was left in abeyance . |
| 9 | Between 1918 and 1929 the Labour vote rose by over six million to the total of 8,364,883 on which a Labour government with Liberal support was returned in 1929 . |
| 10 | Alternatively , Small and Hoy have tabulated a series of group molar attraction constants from which a good estimate of δ for most polymers can be made . |
| 11 | They saw the role of the state not merely as a set of instrumentalities for securing material welfare but as the focus of a sense of community and citizenship , an institution in which a good common to all classes and recognizable to all interest groups could be articulated . |
| 12 | Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself , the new replicators will tend to take over , and start a new kind of evolution of their own . |
| 13 | Hopefully , sometime in the future , it will be possible to create community schools from which a new breed of professional will emerge . |
| 14 | A revised version of the paper was produced for a November meeting , at which a new committee with the same name as the 1968 committee was set up . |
| 15 | The Version table records the date on which a new version of an entry was added to the main archive . |
| 16 | The end of the cold war gave us real hopes that the Gulf operation could be the seed , round which a new role for the UN would develop . |
| 17 | In order to understand why it is that homoclinic orbits are such important features of the Lorenz equations , we will examine the change of behaviour of the system as r passes through a value at which a homoclinic orbit like that shown in Fig. 6.1a occurs . |
| 18 | The improvements made in the machines to date do not seem as though they ought to have added up to much , but they appear to have allowed the crossing of a psychological threshold , after which a rich harvest of human error becomes accessible . |
| 19 | The extent to which a planned use of tax benefits reduces a recipient 's tax burden is illustrated in the answer to a Parliamentary Question tabled by Gordon Brown , relating to the 1986. -7 tax year . |
| 20 | Having walked through the wood , she emerged on to a small , high plateau , from which a wide sweep of the countryside below was visible . |
| 21 | Awareness of these characteristics of language can help in the design of a generic spatial language with which a wide variety of users can interact with a spatial database . |
| 22 | W. T. Stead 's sensational exposé of the latter in his articles on ‘ The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon ’ generated a sense of outrage with which a wide spectrum of public opinion found itself in sympathy . |
| 23 | The justification of the partnership approach is that it encourages the notions of quality and excellence , whilst providing a framework within which a wide range of activities can be given a sense of coherence and wholeness . |
| 24 | The Challenge project would provide further resources for each development , and a new interdisciplinary theme through which a wide range of subject departments could make contributions to pupils ' learning . |
| 25 | In each school the library committee provided a forum in which a wide range of subject teachers were not only permitted to involve themselves , but to some extent obliged to participate in formulating specific curriculum/library plans . |
| 26 | This fluidity of grouping practice , in classrooms dominated by curriculum-specific work areas in which a wide range of totally dissimilar tasks were simultaneously undertaken , occasionally led to extremely complex organizational problems and a good deal of confusion . |
| 27 | Uncertainty extends also to the question of Molla Yegan 's death date , about which a wide divergence of opinion has grown up amongst the various sources , who give dates ranging from 840/1436–7 to 878/1473–4 . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) The cases in which a pecuniary advantage within the meaning of this section is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — … ( c ) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment … |
| 29 | More positively , they show how attention to detail may bring off results which a simple reorganisation of staff does not . |
| 30 | When required to learn a further discrimination involving these same cues but a different response ( for example , a reversal in which a simple push to the previously non-rewarded cue now yielded reward ) the animals pre-trained with the larger magnitude response learned more readily . |