Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Westphalian Room , named after the region in Germany with which we are twinned , can offer facilities for small community art exhibitions . |
| 2 | In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance . |
| 3 | In the case of a sale by auction the standard special conditions which incorporate , in turn , the standard conditions can be very simply adapted to the transaction , but remember to insert , in cases to which it will be applicable , a clause providing that the sale is subject to a reserve , unless you can rely on such a provision in the standard conditions , which by reference you incorporate in the special conditions of sale . |
| 4 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 5 | That is the ability to co-ordinate the actions of members of the society in cases in which they have reason to co-ordinate their actions , and the ability to do so better than they can . |
| 6 | His career at Thame had been full of promise , attested by the Oxford University Local Examinations certificate framed on the walls of the terraced house in Cardiff in which I grew up . |
| 7 | On that day the invitation was sent to William of Orange , James 's nephew and son-in-law , in response to which he landed in England to restore its liberties . |
| 8 | In particular , I wish you well for the National Conference in March to which you will be rushing immediately after our meeting with the SMT on March 8th . |
| 9 | His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration . |
| 10 | Bradford 's scientific contribution to the programme will be in the development of photocatalytic particles of high activity , in addition to which it will fulfill the management role of Project Coordination between the partners and with the E.C . |
| 11 | In Sussex William Earnley was the son of the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; in contrast to most of his colleagues , who had at least £40 a year with an average of £100 , he had only £26 produced by a medley of very small properties , in addition to which he leased Cakehan manor from the bishop of Chichester . |
| 12 | An act is ‘ in furtherance ’ of a trade dispute when the doer genuinely believes it will assist the cause in support of which it is done : the House of Lords has emphatically rejected the addition of any requirement that the act be ‘ not too remote ’ or ‘ reasonably likely to succeed . ’ |
| 13 | It remains true that sport is really all about competing well rather than winning , but when defeat becomes too common , particularly in activities in which we think we should excel , the moment may have come to do something drastic . |
| 14 | An individual 's genes are not unique to itself ; they occur also in animals to which it is genetically related through genealogical descent . |
| 15 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 16 | And all this merely supplements and whets the appetite for the serious nourishment of hot dogs and beer , in search of which you must leave your seat and descend below the stands . |
| 17 | A group of ornithologists has just returned from an expedition to an arid area in Mexico in which you are keenly interested . |
| 18 | They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart . |
| 19 | What they need is a purgative period in opposition in which they have time to think once more and sort themselves out . ’ |
| 20 | Shaikh Abdellatif al-Mahmoud , a professor of Islamic Studies at Bahrein University , was detained on Dec. 14 on his return from a seminar in Kuwait in which he had criticized the systems of government in the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council . |
| 21 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 22 | I wondered what it was that could come between a husband and wife when their child killed herself away from home and in circumstances for which they could not hold themselves in any way responsible . |
| 23 | The local authority , the Croydon London Borough Council , had applied to the justices in circumstances to which I will refer for an interim care order . |
| 24 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 25 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal concluded that this was a case of deliberate and secret action by the employees and the defendants in circumstances in which they must have known the exact result of what they were doing and must have known it was wrong . |
| 27 | With respect to Lloyd L.J. , when the creditor is content to leave it to the debtor to obtain the surety 's signature in circumstances in which it should have been aware that undue influence might come into play , it is not necessary to establish that the debtor was acting as agent for the bank . |
| 28 | To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ? |
| 29 | In the context of the earlier discussion on meaning , this might be interpreted as those relationships which help to establish and sustain a person 's self-esteem in areas to which he is highly committed . |
| 30 | ‘ This has been offset by improvements in areas over which we ourselves have control — partly by improving our cost base , and partly by increasing oil production , ’ he added . |