Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] which he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he gave way and agreed to remain Prime Minister , an eminence for which he professed no enthusiasm . |
| 2 | He served with both Horse and Foot in Germany during the Seven Years ' War , an experience to which he often subsequently referred . |
| 3 | I believe that when Milton Friedman defends capitalism as a necessary but not sufficient condition to ensure a free society , it is not capitalism as an ideology to which he refers , but the guarantee by the state to respect private property rights . |
| 4 | Like other examining and awarding bodies , however , SCOTVEC is in the business of recognising achievement ; any holder of a SCOTVEC certificate , be it a National Certificate , an HNC or an HND , has an award of which he or she can be proud . |
| 5 | Marryat 's Percival Keene , writing a report to the Admiralty of an action in which he has acquitted himself well , sees his success realistically , while he is happy to acquire the reputation of a hero : |
| 6 | Don Kroodsma did an experiment in which he played normal and artificially reduced repertories of male canary song to female canaries . |
| 7 | The German critic , Bernd Witte , recalls that in 1980 , Cannetti gave an interview in which he explained why he embarked on this autobiography in which other people are so important . |
| 8 | Worse , and more important , it was an England in which he first ceased to have a role , and then a year or so later acquired a minor and disagreeable one . |
| 9 | The poor citizen , bewildered by its ever-changing complexities , finds himself the victim of the muddled thinking and uncertain draftsmanship of the legislators who have multiplied words without knowledge , and must try to understand and then live with an Act of which he has suffered great difficulty and delay in obtaining a copy . |
| 10 | Ironically , the deal is a victory for Mr Bush 's attention to foreign policy , an issue on which he campaigned during his re-election battle . |
| 11 | It was an issue on which he never bent . |
| 12 | In part this was intended to embarrass President Bush into having to choose whether or not to veto the legislation before the 1992 election , since abortion is an issue on which he was seen as vulnerable among women who would otherwise vote Republican . |
| 13 | Sometimes the chairman of a committee stands down temporarily from the chair in order to express a deeply felt personal view about an issue in which he has an interest . |
| 14 | In 1796 he published an article in which he stated that there were three ways in which to approach the treatment of disease : |
| 15 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 16 | Any way Sunderland came out pumped up and we hardly got a touch before Goodmans strength made an opening from which he scored in the 6th minute . |
| 17 | The bed was too short for him , an inconvenience to which he had accommodated himself by neatly sticking out his toes over the foot board . |
| 18 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 20 | When , once , he had thought himself on the brink of an alliance for which he yearned , he was suddenly and shatteringly rejected . |
| 21 | David Poole is hopeful for the future of an art with which he has become so closely involved . |
| 22 | The officer , Mr. Matthews , who lived in St. Ann 's Street , was a keen member of the Local Amateur Dramatic Society and visited schools in another capacity — that of conjuror — an art in which he excelled . |
| 23 | Much against Florence 's advice , Late Lyrics and Earlier opened with an Apology in which he expressed surprise that ‘ in these disordered years of our prematurely afflicted century ’ critics should still find fault with his ‘ frank exploration of reality ’ . |
| 24 | He is considered , partly as a result of this , to be particularly child-centred , willing to keep pupils for longer because he is unwilling to make the potentially painful decision to insist that a child should leave an environment to which he or she has grown accustomed . |
| 25 | With the agreement of my closest colleagues and the director of the MRC 's Clinical Research Centre , Dr C. C. Booth , I provided Dr Ted Steele with an environment in which he could complete his experiments in the friendly but critical atmosphere provided by immunologists who were trying to repeat his results themselves . |
| 26 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |
| 27 | In terms of the legalistic concept of private property , an individual is able to own an object with which he or she may have no personal relationship , thus preventing others from realizing their potential for achieving such a relationship . |
| 28 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |
| 29 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 30 | The statement says that where a member 's opinion is sought on the application of accounting standards or principles to specific circumstances or transactions of an entity of which he is not the auditor , he should ensure that he has access to all relevant information , he should contact the auditor to provide an opportunity for the latter to bring to his attention any relevant facts and , given his client 's permission , he should provide a copy of his opinion to the auditor . |