Example sentences of "which [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often easier to locate the leak with the water in , or by marking the water level at which to search for the leak , unless of course the fault is in the bottom of the pool . |
| 2 | The prospects for management buy-outs are really very bleak , the reason for that is that the franchises which we 're hearing about are likely to be very short , the franchisee will own no assets , no land , no rolling stock , nothing with which to go to the bank as security for loan . |
| 3 | The business of today must be ; clean up the mess , stop any further deterioration , consider that options and make a plan by which to proceed with the reconstruction . |
| 4 | Fish likewise require as much sunlight as possible if they are to retain their brilliant colours and make satisfactory growth , although they do appreciate a shady corner in which to glide during the heat of a summer 's day . |
| 5 | Usually they stalk and spring like the tiger but they are such skilful climbers that a branch over-hanging a game trail provides the perfect place of ambush from which to leap onto the prey below . |
| 6 | I have no information with which to write to the Chairman of the Committee asking it to investigate the sale . |
| 7 | A Scotland Yard spokesman said last night : ‘ In response to complaints expressed by a number of people , including some from the legal profession , it has been decided that the use of plastic sheets in surveillance logs [ note books ] — used as a firm backing on which to write in the street — will be withdrawn . ’ |
| 8 | Clearly , the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery and the hon. Member for Swansea , East ( Mr. Anderson ) take an entirely different view which I do not believe would be an effective way in which to deal with the problem . |
| 9 | Secondly , the Home Secretary and his colleagues have found a way in which to deal with the problem swiftly and , I believe , to remove the uppermost element . |
| 10 | This is a separate head under which to deal with the solicitor 's duty to his colleagues to attend to his work with proper expedition and to achieve a satisfactory level of performance to justify his agreed profit share . |
| 11 | As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town . |
| 12 | Eliot saw the savage here as simply a base from which to start in the critique of the modern . |
| 13 | If the patient is safe sitting up , he should be left alone for privacy while he is passing urine or faeces , and he should have a bell to summon help , or perhaps a stick with which to knock on the wall or floor . |
| 14 | Nor is it uncommon for there to be such poor recording of achievement ( as well as diagnosis of weaknesses ) that a teacher has relatively little on which to build from the child 's teacher of the previous year . |
| 15 | The Pátio is an interesting oasis in which to rest from the hustle and bustle of Funchal . |
| 16 | ‘ Community ’ and informal care therefore provide appropriate contexts within which to argue for the value of women 's unpaid caring work to be recognised , as Land ( 1991 ) and Ungerson ( 1990 ) have recently done . |
| 17 | It is a tough world in which to survive at the moment . |
| 18 | There is surely something very odd about insisting that I need more than the fact that I love cats and hate dogs to decide which to have about the house . |
| 19 | Kangaroo rats and spring-hares use their holes , as the tortoise does , to shelter from the heat ; hyaenas and wolves as nurseries ; badgers and armadillos as dormitories in which to slumber during the day after foraging at night ; and mice and rabbits as sanctuaries where they are beyond the reach of most of their enemies . |
| 20 | After recycling , we must find the safest way in which to dispose of the waste . |