Example sentences of "which [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I keep coming across internal memoranda about which offices are to have their heating turned off during the morning and which during the afternoon . |
| 2 | What these characters are engaged in , however , is a competition for the attention of the camera , for which during the course of the film they posture and scheme . |
| 3 | Their dependent variable constituted 105 large companies ( drawn from the 500 largest firms in the US ) which during the period 1968–72 were involved in trade litigation for committing , or having being accused of committing , one or more of the following : price discrimination , tying arrangements , refusal to deal , exclusive dealing , franchise violation , price fixing , foreclosure of entry , reciprocity , allocation of markets , monopoly , conspiracy , and illegal mergers and acquisitions . |
| 4 | This will be the case where an offer is made by one side which during the visit is accepted by the other . |
| 5 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 6 | The two sisters had converted the stables attached to their home , Miller 's House in Lewes , into a studio which during the war had become a kind of arts centre , where exhibitions , lectures and concerts were held and which received support and encouragement from eminent names . |
| 7 | Muriel Belcher had previously run a club called the Music Box in Leicester Square and which during the war had become a theatrical rendezvous . |
| 8 | The trained bands , which were under the control of the Tory-Anglican lieutenancy , and which during the Exclusion Crisis had been efficient in suppressing the activities of Whig and Nonconformist crowds , refused to act against the crowds who gathered to prevent people from attending the mass , believing that since the professed purpose was " only pulling down Popery " , they could not " in conscience hinder " . |
| 9 | There are several footpaths around the village , which during the summer months provide a rich variety of flora and fauna . |
| 10 | 2.3 " Adjoining Property " means any neighbouring or adjoining land or premises ( excluding the remainder of the Centre ) in which the Landlord or a Group Company has a freehold or leasehold interest or in which during the Term the Landlord or a Group Company shall have acquired a freehold or leasehold interest There is no objection to this provided that the existence of any adjoining property does not have an adverse effect on the tenant 's contribution towards service charges or other costs referred to in the lease and the tenant should therefore be vigilant in this regard when amending the lease . |
| 11 | 3.5 The expression " the Centre " where the context so admits includes any additional and adjoining land and buildings in which during the Term the Landlord or a Group Company shall have acquired the freehold or leasehold interest and which shall have been so constructed or acquired to form [ an integral ] part of the Centre |
| 12 | But for our present purposes , its interest is that it locates stylistic significance in the ideational function of language ; that is , in the cognitive meaning or sense which for the dualist is the invariant factor of content rather than the variable factor of style . |
| 13 | Capitalists were forced to concede the wage rises which for the system as a whole were needed to sustain accumulation . |
| 14 | Ingenious balance shafts , which for the layman alleviate vibration and centrifugal imbalance , make this power unit smooth enough to be the envy of any chauffeur-driven decision maker . |
| 15 | The polar moment of inertia of the Moon C has been determined from J 2 , and from the physical librations which for the Moon have played an equivalent role in determining C to that played by the rate of polar axis precession in the case of the Earth ( see section 3.2.1 ) . |
| 16 | Convocation was rarely concerned now with reform ; Archbishop Stratford in 1342 was the last primate until the sixteenth century to issue provincial constitutions in this body which for the rest of the reign was wholly concerned with royal taxation or with eliciting , in exchange for grants , relief from crown or lay encroachments on church liberties or property . |
| 17 | Er we export some to India We export and anticipate to export a fair quantity to another country , which for the purpose of our own affairs shall be nameless . |
| 18 | born in Church Street I , I was only one , there were no brothers or sisters which for the record , I regret because all around me I had cousins , dozens of them and erm the families round me was big families and it was the , there was er times when it was bad weather or something like that and you could n't congregate outside , you 'd go to somebody 's house , are you coming ? |
| 19 | There is also a mention if the cargo contribution to airlines which for the passenger carriers is , at 50 per cent return on revenue , the most profitable thing they have in the market at the moment . |
| 20 | ‘ I Tavole del Giudizio : Composizione in sei tempi ’ is an installation composed of eight mirror-topped tables , which for the duration of the exhibition will be rearranged at regular intervals in six different positions , each signifying a different concept : division/multiplication ; dispersion ; eliptical organisation ; self-reflection ; refectory/social life ; absolute/relative . |
| 21 | Neither origins nor ends predetermine meaning , which for the reader may rest as much in the gaps between the stories as in the stories themselves , in their continuity and succession as in their uniqueness and completion . |
| 22 | So it is that close attention to the language itself and reference to systemic knowledge allows us to negotiate meaning and acquire the kind of information which for the reader in the schematic know is provided in advance . |
| 23 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 24 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 25 | And Dounreay , which for the moment is the major employer of highly trained and specialised employees ; wage packets are accordingly high . |
| 26 | They were selected because it is clear that , judged by current psychiatric criteria , they all did suffer from episodes of psychosis — to introduce a technical term to be defined more precisely as we proceed through this and the following chapter , but which for the moment can be taken as synonymous with the layperson 's conception of mental illness as it occurs in its most disintegrative form and which especially refers to serious disorders , like schizophrenia . |
| 27 | We consider a matrix A , which for the moment we regard as having distinct eigenvalues . |
| 28 | He has a singular mind and what is on it at the moment , seems , in our time of stagnation , to speak for a lost England ; and England which for the moment has been buried beneath the slogans of ideology and the jargon of modish materialism and press vendettas and bile . |
| 29 | A great many of them , out of respect for her , for him , for the grief which was meant to inhabit him , but which for the moment , he knew , he only represented . |
| 30 | They themselves might ‘ motor ’ down to their country retreat at the weekends but they looked with signal disfavour on the idea that the vast mass of the populace might enjoy a similar mobility and have access to pleasures which for the moment were peculiarly their own . |