Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some people this may be self-imposed ; for me , my work forms part of it — it is something which I enjoy and from which I get considerable satisfaction . |
| 2 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
| 3 | In each case the accuracy rate concerning events of which I had first-hand knowledge was about 50% ; half the information correct , half wrong . |
| 4 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
| 5 | They sent Respighi 's music , Pines of the Appian Way , marching through my head , to which I gave bass accompaniment with my hat . |
| 6 | I wanted to be a writer ( hence the course ) but was also toying with the idea of the group , which I pursued full time after finishing . |
| 7 | We might find an account of what knowledge is which would suffice to undermine crucial sceptical moves , and hence confirm the possibility that some of our beliefs are justified ; the account to which I give tentative support in chapter 3 has pretensions in this direction . |
| 8 | But the kind of criticism which I termed external critique is much less conditioned by the object under review and its conventional disciplinary home . |
| 9 | Sicily is an example at the northern extreme , of which I have personal experience . |
| 10 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton is a member of the council of Justice — an organisation for which I have great respect and which operates under the presidency of Lord Alexander of Weedon . |
| 11 | My elder daughter has read ‘ Some Other Rainbow ’ in which you receive honourable mention and I hope to read it soon . |
| 12 | Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence . |
| 13 | These principles are expressed as follows : ( 13 ) The co-operative principle make your contribution such as is required , at the stage at which it occurs , by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged ( 14 ) The maxim of Quality try to make your contribution one that is true , specifically : ( i ) do not say what you believe to be false ( ii ) do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence ( 15 ) The maxim of Quantity ( i ) make your contribution as informative as is required for the current purposes of the exchange ( ii ) do not make your contribution more informative than is required ( 16 ) The maxim of Relevance make your contributions relevant ( 17 ) The maxim of Manner be perspicuous , and specifically : ( i ) avoid obscurity ( ii ) avoid ambiguity ( iii ) be brief ( iv ) be orderly In short , these maxims specify what participants have to do in order to converse in a maximally efficient , rational , co-operative way : they should speak sincerely , relevantly and clearly , while providing sufficient information . |
| 14 | With reference to your letter of 20 July in which you request special leave following the death of your mother . |
| 15 | I refer to your letter sent to Mr Drewry in which you request special leave to attend your fiancé 's father 's funeral . |
| 16 | It would be extremely rash to add a pair of leleupi to a tank in which you have brichardi breeding . |
| 17 | It is a serious discipline in which you have infinite freedom , within the restrictions of geometry . |
| 18 | You select an area of the country in which you run different advertising from the advertising you run in the rest of the country . |
| 19 | Yet another option is to buy a policy which itself covers accidental damage without the need for buying a separate extension . |
| 20 | Her duty — a duty in which she took consummate pride — was to ensure the smooth running of The Tamarisks . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After her husband 's death in 1947 she co-founded the Albert Howard Foundation , which in 1953 merged with the Soil Association , of which she became honorary life vice-president . |
| 23 | We were showing a Jessie Matthews film called Evergreen , one of her first films , in which she wore long silk stockings . |
| 24 | Cruzan , 33 , had been in an irreversible coma since a 1983 car accident in which she suffered severe brain damage . |
| 25 | She wears a pink suede jacket with a studded fringe which she takes great care to hang . |
| 26 | Ms Fahey departed from her employment in the Decca Records press office in order to become a co-founder of the seminal trio , Bananarama , with which she enjoyed multiple success ‘ singer ’ lieder such as ‘ Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye ’ and ‘ Robert De Niro 's Waiting ’ . |
| 27 | For ten years , from the time she arrived in France — after a journey in which she showed considerable enthusiasm for the new life to which she was going , and very little sign of regret about leaving her country , let alone her ‘ dearest mother ’ ( in contrast to Mary of Guise 's grief ) — until her marriage , she was the fêted darling of the French court . |
| 28 | Or PM zee , I suppose in America which she terms post-menopausal zest ! |
| 29 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |
| 30 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |