Example sentences of "which [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horses for courses is too broad a brush with which to paint a picture . |
| 2 | This approach is typified by Mackay , who has argued that because injury reduction was more realistic in the short term than accident prevention , one should think of the front end of a car ‘ primarily as a structure with which to hit a pedestrian ’ . |
| 3 | At Clapham Junction , he alighted from the train and crossed by the footbridge to the platform from which to catch a train back . |
| 4 | Once an excavation finishes , the archaeologist is left with numerous written , drawn and photographic records in addition to a quantity of finds and environmental samples with which to establish a picture of the history and development of the excavated site . |
| 5 | Next time we will have a basis on which to request a meeting , in advance — trying to arrange meetings on the spot becomes a nightmare of negotiating other prescheduled appointments . |
| 6 | This period of grace has in normal market conditions given the house owner adequate time in which to find a buyer . |
| 7 | This has always seemed to make sense , despite the Scots ' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles , and one 's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket . |
| 8 | They had four days in which to find a replacement . |
| 9 | Seeking a clearing , from which to launch a message into space , they watch as an enormous space ship from an outer galaxy passes overhead . |
| 10 | In Nizan 's eyes the party assumed the status of an alternative social group , a sanctuary in which psychological and ideological contradictions could be resolved ; the perfect site in short from which to launch a counter-ideology in texts such as Aden Arabie and Les Chiens de garde , angry denunciations of the oppression of bourgeois cultural practices . |
| 11 | Available in a boxed set with Crimes and Misdemeanours ( 15 ) and September ( PG ) , Another Woman ( PG ) is the story of Marion ( Gena Rowlands ) , a planet-brained philosophy lecturer who rents an apartment in which to write a book . |
| 12 | As part of the course , she has to choose a subject of her own about which to write a paper ; one of her difficulties is to know how to form her own views , not just copy already received opinions . |
| 13 | Such wide spaces may have been places for furniture — certainly , a number of different positions from which to view a pavement is desirable . |
| 14 | As she had little dress sense , only a vague fear that any hat or dress she chose might be vulgar , so she had no sense of a possible style in which to decorate a house , or even a dining table , for Christmas . |
| 15 | Once combined with the relevant ACORN types , the distributor may be in a position : * to set sales targets for regional and local sales management ; * to identify towns in which to establish local retail branches or service depots ; * to identify appropriate regional and local media for targeting promotional messages ; * to select the postal sectors in which to aim a leaflet drop using the U.K. Post Office Household Delivery Service . |
| 16 | Later , eugenicists stressed the importance of teaching women the criteria by which to choose a mate . |
| 17 | They 've got almost too much back talent from which to choose a side to play Italy at Cardiff on October 7 . |
| 18 | The " enterprise pact " would allow workers and managers in Poland 's state enterprises three months in which to choose a privatization scheme for their enterprise , from among five models . |
| 19 | The most efficient point at which to identify a word is thus after hearing the phoneme at which the word first differs from every other word in English . |
| 20 | Many limbs carry special tools moulded from the chitin — pouches for holding pollen , combs for cleaning a compound eye , spikes to act as grappling irons and notches with which to fiddle a song . |
| 21 | However the main merit of Mr Frye 's analysis , at this moment , is that besides describing Tolkien 's literary category so well it further indicates , first , an inevitable problem associated with that category , and then , more indirectly , the terms in which to express a solution . |
| 22 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |
| 23 | If there were no refractoriness ( no failures to experience X when trying to have an X-experience ) there could be no basis on which to draw a distinction between appearance and reality , and without this distinction there can be no possibility of thinking about reality . |
| 24 | It is far too broad an area from which to devise a practice schedule and once again it is necessary to isolate . |
| 25 | This may be a curious thought with which to conclude a study of multimedia , especially one which has offered so much analysis and commentary about technology . |
| 26 | That is to say , will there be a table in my room on which to put a typewriter , and can I bring an anglepoise ? ’ |
| 27 | Usually a small tank will suffice like a 24″x12″x12″ , and it can be used in which to put a fish that has been badly injured , or picked on . |
| 28 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 29 | Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up . |
| 30 | I had run away from Sir Tom because I needed to find a bedrock of truth on which to build a life . |