Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the moment we move forward believing that we are going in a direction to which we have already been prompted , and in the confidence that the holy spirit is working among us . |
| 32 | But however the relationship between these was seen , staff generally agreed that the developments in this aspect of the school 's provision were substantial and were in a direction of which they approved . |
| 33 | There is a direction in which we are looking . |
| 34 | However , this is a direction in which we would already have been moving for other reasons , and the installation of a digital telephone exchange for the provision of extra lines to our new accommodation will greatly facilitate the process . |
| 35 | In layman 's terms , this means that the knee joint is slightly bent in a direction in which it is not intended to bend . |
| 36 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 37 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 38 | Though I was only sixteen , it was a decision from which I never wavered . |
| 39 | ‘ Since VJ day , the majority people of the area , the Vietnamese , have stubbornly resisted the re-establishment of French authority , a struggle in which we have tried to maintain so far as possible the position of non-support of either party ’ . |
| 40 | She had also decided to invite Louise and Miriam , whom she wanted to impress with her domestic abilities , but only after a struggle in which she was torn between the pleasure of impressing them and the displeasure of having two more women and thereby disturbing what she considered to be a favourable balance of the sexes . |
| 41 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 42 | Q.Ts. wishing to attend a course to which they are not deemed to be attached may also attend on a daily basis at £2.50 per session . |
| 43 | That if you go on a course for which you 're well-motivated , then you 'll do well . |
| 44 | The simple reflection also illustrates something else , that the fundamental general causal propositions of science rest on particular causal propositions , of a kind with which we are all familiar . |
| 45 | It is our intention to maintain a university of which you will continue to be proud . |
| 46 | The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover . |
| 47 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 48 | Nicholas 's suppression of the Polish rebellion outraged public opinion in western Europe and dealt his reputation a blow from which it never recovered . |
| 49 | At one level , he finally found a spiritual home , a sanctuary from which he could vent his spleen on the oppressive bourgeois institutions which had duped him . |
| 50 | Baptiste appeared with a sack into which he scooped the corpses . |
| 51 | The philosophers may have been generally unsympathetic to what they saw as an encroachment on their territory , while the sociologists have done their best to incorporate or adapt Mannheim 's project to fit with a paradigm in which they were already working . |
| 52 | The way a scientist views a particular aspect of the world will be guided by a paradigm in which he is working . |
| 53 | Representing the Prussian general staff were the generals von Roon and von Moltke , and perhaps most importantly , Bismarck , who later described the occasion as a ‘ simple family dinner ’ , a description of which it could be said that those who believe it will believe anything . |
| 54 | What we are attempting is a hypothesis in which I answer for him , while you ask me questions . |
| 55 | Consider a computer with which you are familiar : to what extent must the assembler language programmer be aware of the precise format in the computer of the instructions he writes ? |
| 56 | Program this on a computer with which you are familiar . |
| 57 | ‘ It is submitted : ( i ) the judge erred in law in his ruling on count 1 ; ( ii ) for an offence to be committed under section 1(1) of the Act there does not have to be the use by the offender of one computer with intent to secure unauthorised access into another computer ; ( iii ) there is no ambiguity in the wording of section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act which clearly refers to an intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( iv ) section 17(2) and ( 3 ) are applicable to the alleged actions of the respondent in this case ; ( v ) the Act has been drafted so as to deal with the person who misuses a computer to which he has direct ( but unauthorised ) access , as well as a computer into which he is able to secure indirect access by operating another computer . ’ |
| 58 | Write a program , for a computer to which you have access , to clear all of main store ( including that occupied by the program ) . |
| 59 | Devise a suitable representation for signed multiple-length binary integers for a computer to which you have access , and write subroutines to negate , add , and subtract such operands . |
| 60 | Estimate the speed increase in using a ( hypothetical or actual ) block transfer instruction on a computer to which you have access , over the best alternative way of performing the move . |