Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] which it " in BNC.

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1 The disciplines upon which it draws are , in the main , linguistics , psycho-linguistics , and sociolinguistics .
2 Overall , a healthy plurality of different initiatives is likely to arise if a strong voluntary sector grasps the opportunity with which it is currently presented and if it is actively supported by the statutory authorities .
3 Fraser observes that ‘ analysis is more limiting because it recreates the past only in the forms in which it was internalised or repressed. ,
4 In moral ( or human ) science , by contrast , we deal with that with which we have immediate contact within ourselves — the human spirit and the forms in which it expresses and manifests itself .
5 In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network .
6 A 200 per cent increase looks huge but the base on which it is calculated may be small .
7 The calculation of rateable values has become , therefore , more and more removed from the base upon which it is supposed to rest .
8 The wording of the job advert can say much about the school and the direction in which it 's moving not only to potential applicants but to a much wider audience .
9 Although this effort has been piecemeal and has occurred in widely differing contexts , the direction in which it is moving can be identified .
10 He had , from the beginning , no doubts of the direction in which it would be necessary and right to move : the War , he argued , ‘ is moving us more and more in the direction of Labour 's ideas and ideals ’ .
11 The style of helm and the direction in which it faces , whether it is open or closed , are all important pointers to the status of the person whose armorial bearings are being depicted .
12 A further source of variation is generational position , with some changes occurring in the type of support which is given and the direction in which it flows over each person 's life course .
13 It is just out of the × 7 field with Alpha , but Lambda ( 4.4 ) and Alpha indicate the direction in which it lies ; it is close to 5 Serpentis ( 5.2 ) .
14 It only works in the direction in which it 's throwing the ions .
15 They act partly as stabilisers , like gyroscopes , and partly as sense organs presumably telling the fly of the attitude of its body in the air and the direction in which it is moving .
16 The switch joystick gives a direct digital output corresponding to the direction in which it is moved .
17 The results ( e.g. Figure 3.9 ) can be plotted in a graph of the rate of correct choices against the number of times the rat has been made to run through the maze ( where a ‘ correct ’ choice is one in the direction in which it will be rewarded , or in the opposite direction from which it will be shocked ) .
18 It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system .
19 This book provided a fundamental basis for the conservation movement ( Mumford , 1931 ) , it proved to have a great influence upon the way in which land was visualized and used ( Lowenthal , 1965 ) , and its full title Man and Nature or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action clearly indicates the direction in which it was pointing .
20 However , I am confident that the European Community will continue to progress in the direction in which it has been driving — and rightly so — for the benefit of all our citizens and citizens on the mainland of Europe .
21 As she got out , she spotted a sign to the library , and set off in the direction in which it pointed .
22 For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen .
23 The tyres screamed and fought for grip and then the whole car did a little wiggle like the backside of a pouncing cat and stormed on , back in the direction from which it had come .
24 If you were a wild creature , you could certainly use your lensless eye to detect the looming shape of a predator , and the direction from which it was approaching .
25 Given the responsibilities the CNAA shouldered by virtue of its Charter , given its anxiety to ensure that its procedures safeguarded standards as fully as possible , and given the diversity of the institutions with which it had to deal , the CNAA moved cautiously in its discussions about relinquishing or reducing control over any aspects of the work its procedures were designed to monitor .
26 In the following pages , I shall first present a broad picture of the Indian prison population and the institutions in which it is held .
27 For the origins and development of the Royal Society of London , far from demonstrating the objectivity and truth of scientific inquiry , is a classic example of the extent to which such inquiry is contingent on social pressures , political interests and the nature of the institutions in which it is conducted ( cf.
28 He alluded , however , to the military administration 's complicity in the Luchaire arms exports and criticized the Defence Ministry 's use of " defence secrecy " in the selection of evidence for the trial in which it was the prosecuting party .
29 Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust .
30 It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) .
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