Example sentences of "and [prep] which the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( For some peculiar reason the Boeing company speak of the ‘ chord ’ when referring to what is known in Britain as a ‘ spar boom ’ and for which the standard American expression is ‘ spar cap . ’ |
| 2 | Supplementary financing Providing about 8 per cent of funds , this facility , established in 1977 , is intended to assist countries with longer-term problems in their balance of payments , and for which the normal facilities of the Fund are not adequate . |
| 3 | It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised . |
| 4 | It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised . |
| 5 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 6 | The 40 remaining patients had proved hypoxaemic events — that is , a fall in skin po 2 and Sao 2 , or both — with no evidence of epilepsy or suffocation and for which the precise mechanism remains undetermined but was probably respiratory in origin . |
| 7 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 8 | ‘ How ’ , he asked , ‘ can Mussolini send the boys to fight in a country where the winters are so incredibly cold and for which the Italian Army , even the Alpini , are so badly equipped ? |
| 9 | If the action continued , he argues , damage would result to his business or personal interests which would be irreparable and for which the subsequent payment of compensation would be an inadequate remedy . |
| 10 | In female worms the intestine terminates in an anus while in males there is a cloaca which functions as an anus , and into which opens the vas deferens and through which the copulatory spicules may be extruded . |
| 11 | He created the 112 vice-counties into which the whole of Britain was divided , and of which the Outer Hebrides became V.C. 110 . |
| 12 | This fed directly into the large 40 foot high chimney that formerly graced the mill and of which the lower dressed masonry section remains . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most successful rendering was that of the fifth poem of ‘ Landscapes ’ , entitled ‘ Cape Ann ’ , which he read with great gusto and of which the last line ‘ The palaver is finished ’ produced a ripple of pleasure . |
| 14 | Matters such as the hon. Gentleman raised can be dealt with at present under the social dimension to which the British Government subscribe and against which the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) voted . |
| 15 | As a result legal proceedings may be taken by someone who is being adversely affected by an odour which in his opinion amounts to a statutory nuisance and against which the local authority is reluctant to institute formal proceedings . |
| 16 | In toto , these constitute an image of a world filled with dangers , human and non-human , known and unknown , which constantly menace from all sides , and against which the lone individual is helpless . |
| 17 | In contrast with this fabricated ‘ real ’ redness the redness which immediately appears and from which the whole conception of red is obtained is downgraded to something which pertains only to how things look to us . |
| 18 | From side to side of the field , the army buzzed , like a harp strung with horse-hair , and the sun rose higher ahead above the black forest of pine mixed with alder and birch that closed the battleground at its far end , and within which the Northumbrian army was waiting . |
| 19 | Consider the concept , common in high-level languages , of the boolean variable , that is , a variable which can take only two values ( true and false ) and upon which the usual boolean functions — and , or , etc.ban be Performed . |
| 20 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 21 | It means also the creation of a different kind of education in which the organisation and control is with women and in which the usual demarcation between teachers and learners , thought and action , fact and feelings , personal and public , becomes removed . |
| 22 | This is a rather apt description of a bloom that is flat , ( compared to the high central point of the Hybrid Tea , for example ) and in which the many petals seem to curl and divide into four sections or quarters . |
| 23 | Another leading Forum activist said that last night 's talks , in which the Communists were lead by the politburo member , Mr Vasil Mohorita , and in which the small political parties also took part , could produce a quick agreement . |
| 24 | His writings prior to departure make it abundantly clear that the image of the USSR firmly implanted in his mind was that of a country in full post-revolutionary expansion engaged in the construction of a new society , a new culture and a new man , a country in which social relations were no longer based on human exploitation , and in which the deathly oppression of an exploiting class had been eradicated . |
| 25 | He proposed a constitutional system in which the executive and legislative branches of government would be totally separate , in which the executive would be headed by a president above party politics and in a position to represent national unity and the long-term national interest , and in which the prime minister and ministers would be appointed by this president rather than by parliament . |
| 26 | And of course British capitalism was by this stage a very different capitalism from that of the inter-war years : a social formation in which the organised working class , as organised in the trade unions , was at least consulted and listened to by governments as a matter of course , and in which the major political forces took for granted the obligation to minimise unemployment and to preserve and expand the welfare state . |
| 27 | Several studies have been made in which the probability of reactor accidents of various degrees of severity were estimated , and in which the environmental impacts of the radiation releases associated with these hypothetical accidents were calculated . |
| 28 | I think that a case might arise in which the reputation of a local authority might be damaged , so as to impair its function for the public good , in which no private individual was defamed ; and in which the public interest would be served by the taking of proceedings for libel by the local authority in order to determine the falsity of the charge . |
| 29 | The new government of Russia which negotiated with the brother of Nicholas II with a view to restoring the monarchy in Russia , and in which the leading monarchists Lvov and Guchkov occupy leading positions , this government is trying to represent as a defensive war … its imperialist war with Germany , to represent as a defence of the Russian republic … the defence of the predatory imperialist bandit-like aims of Russian , English , and other capital . |
| 30 | The law has been used to impose a structure in which traditional values are reasserted — for example via a provision which says that sex education should emphasise ‘ the value of family life ’ — and in which the dominant religious tradition , Christianity , is emphasised — via the provisions concerning RE and collective worship contained in the Education Reform Act 1988 . |