Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Lot fifty is a suitcase Standard , there it is now , Lot fifty for which I have a hundred and fifty offered , sixty , one seventy , one eighty one ninety two hundred , two twenty two forty , two sixty two eighty , three hundred and twenty , three twenty seated , any more ? |
| 2 | However , in his central theology and sense of the nature of religion in general and Catholicism in particular , he remained extraordinarily faithful to the papacy of Pius XII during which he had been trained and ordained . |
| 3 | Moreover , these things will be brought into the present not as just any history or teaching , but as that through which God is supremely known . |
| 4 | It was that through which he must pass next . |
| 5 | The council tax is proving less unpopular : appeals against the valuations of property for the new tax , the best measure of opposition , will fall well short of the 950,000 for which the government had allowed . |
| 6 | The adjective beautiful , for example , denotes a quality which can be found in many different objects and therefore does not by itself indicate the nature of that about which it is said . |
| 7 | If the estimate of the cost is guaranteed always to be optimistic , i.e. less than or equal to the actual cost for that path , we are guaranteed to find the optimal path , since no node will be left unexplored for which where C is the cost of the best path through the search space . |
| 8 | Lot seventy eight is the red Gem now showing , thank you , Lot seventy eight for which I have three hundred offered , and twenty , three fifty , three eighty four hundred , any more at four hundred ? |
| 9 | President Khan visited Iran on Sept. 12-15 during which Pakistan and Iran concluded five agreements on economic co-operation . |
| 10 | I have really nothing else to say , except to draw attention to the inherently contradictory nature of that for which you appear to be asking . |
| 11 | This central registry with its annual guide set standards of value for money ( ‘ ample helpings ’ was a common form of praise in the early , newly-derationed days ) and a little more sophistication of taste than that for which British boarding schools and service canteens had trained the middle classes . |
| 12 | Richard Baxter summed up his life in these words , ‘ Weakness and pain helped me to study how to die ; that set me on studying how to live ; beginning with necessities , I proceeded by degrees , and now I am going to see that for which I have lived and studied . ’ |
| 13 | He himself ‘ presses on ( strains forward ) to take hold of that for which Jesus Christ took hold of me ’ ( Phil . |
| 14 | proposed usage would be different from that for which the premises were let . |
| 15 | It has to be said that it is an austere document which , although well designed and printed , offers little more than that for which it was intended . |
| 16 | Conservatives ( and Christian feminists also to some extent ) seek alternative ways in which the female can be symbolized in the religion , ways which it must be thought are less than satisfactory , and which become increasingly unsatisfactory as that for which women stand in our society changes . |
| 17 | By 1910 ) there were 155 pupils on the roll ; although this was only five more than that for which the original buildings had been designed , and there was now also the extra Sykes classroom , the Board of Education indicated that there was serious overcrowding and something would have to be done : the School fell considerably short of modern standards , and unless the Governors could provide suitable accommodation , the grant would not be paid after July 1915 . |
| 18 | Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence . |
| 19 | Where the process is used for some purpose other than that for which it is intended , the distinction between an error of judgment and an abuse of process may be rather fine . |
| 20 | But , having given permission and encouraged the port authority and dock company to move in and operate a port , which is a major long term undertaking , it is hardly reasonable to seek to stop or materially limit it without compensation and when the dock company is doing no more than making a success of that for which permission was granted . |
| 21 | This means the time they spend in the public sector is often much less than that for which they are contracted . |
| 22 | These seem to me considerations that should be taken with a seriousness at least equal to that for which the case in favour of the study of language has been urged . |
| 23 | In 1938 he won a scholarship to Merton College , Oxford , where his influential tutor was Edmund Blunden [ q.v. ] , soldier-poet of an earlier war than that for which Douglas enlisted in 1940 . |
| 24 | There are many cases which end up being settled at a figure considerably higher than that for which the case might have settled , say , 1–2 years previously . |
| 25 | Note , too , that this size is marginally smaller than that for which you were asked to quote . |
| 26 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 27 | Into this imaginary world of people unable to learn from their market experience let us now introduce a group of outsiders who are themselves neither would-by sellers nor would-be buyers , but who are able to perceive opportunities for entrepreneurial profits ; that is , they are able to see where a good can be sold at a price higher than that for which it can be bought . |
| 28 | I hope that the results of the public inquiry will be announced shortly and that the advance works on the link can be started before the end of the year , although that depends wholly on the outcome of the general election , because , as I said , the Opposition are committed to reducing expenditure on roads and vital pieces of road infrastructure such as that for which my hon. Friend rightly argues would be threatened by a Labour Government . |
| 29 | When Mr. Millan was Secretary of State for Scotland he administered them in exactly the same way as that for which he criticises us . |
| 30 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |