Example sentences of "[prep] which [noun] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ Here I Am ’ uses as it starting point the life experiences of children , through which God is initially revealed .
3 A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made .
4 Joseph Spence , the Oxford professor of poetry who produced an account of Stephen Duck 's life and writing in 1731 , was far more interested in ‘ The Shunamite ’ , a Biblical piece , than in ‘ The Thresher 's Labour ’ for which Duck is now remembered .
5 It is widely used in this tradition to describe a quality of the tasks of which policing is normally comprised — that these tasks are mostly mundane , ordinary , and day-to-day .
6 However , it is often the case that the service of a counternotice is the only step in the review procedure of which time is expressly made of the essence .
7 Sumitomo Bank is the bank affiliated with the Sumitomo keiretsu or extended company family , with which NEC is also associated .
8 Meanwhile , as railways past prepared to renew their acquaintance with York 's tourist hordes , railways present and future are planning to divert a few onto the TransPennine service into which Teesside is now linked .
9 This and the long duration of the eclipse at low frequency require that this material extends well beyond the pulsar and of course the companion 's Roche lobe , the region within which matter is gravitationally bound to the star .
10 To aid your readers who go to see the movie , the scene in which Demi is clearly seen wearing the Linfield tee-shirt is when she is having a row with Woody Harrelson in the kitchen of her house .
11 Central government attempts to control local authorities by : a ) carefully regulating the amount of money which they can spend locally , and b ) scrutinizing the way in which money is actually spent .
12 This is a situation in which multi-directional migration supersedes conquest as the mode in which metaphor is best understood .
13 In a society in which achievement is highly valued , and where people compete for jobs in an apparently open market , people may feel a sense of failure if they admit they have ended up in a job with which they are dissatisfied .
14 This atmosphere of making changes only slowly and of preferring a tried and tested ‘ free ’ source of power to more efficient engine-driven plant can be savoured at Lockyer 's Mill , Clapton , near Crewkerne , Somerset , a mill of 1864 in which grain is still milled commercially by water power provided by the River Axe ( Plate 42 ) .
15 This is the form in which software is normally purchased .
16 ‘ Provided that we suffer with him , ’ says Paul , reminding us , perhaps , that the agonising context in which Jesus is actually recorded as calling God ‘ Abba ’ is in the Garden of Gethsemane .
17 The most commonly used device for finding the eigenvalues and vectors of a matrix A is the power method , or one of its many variants , in which A is effectively raised to a high power .
18 The task is now to create a new ‘ culture of education ’ in which curriculum is better supported and understood by the community .
19 Although cerebral organisation in adolescence may be characterised by greater functional plasticity than is the case among adults , the picture after left hemispherectomy is essentially one of gross linguistic impoverishment in which comprehension is better preserved than expressive speech .
20 He must not only master their content but be prepared to haggle away those items he finds unacceptable in acrimonious negotiations which may last many hours and in which ignorance is ruthlessly exposed .
21 Hildyard and Olson have restricted the claim to written modes of communication , arguing that speech forms are ‘ context-dependent ’ while written forms , in which English is particularly developed , facilitate ‘ objectivity ’ ( 1978 ) .
22 We see here the way in which battle is often joined between theist and atheist .
23 The extreme case is , of course , a partial reinforcement schedule in which food is sometimes presented and sometimes not .
24 This is the first of er two lectures on the American presidency and erm I want to begin just by putting the presidency in , in context erm thus far I hope it 's clear that the American pol political system is one in which authority is firstly limited by the constitution in which authority dispersed by the by virtue of the separation of powers .
25 In addition we have his recordings of Dolly and the uproarious Fauré and Messager/Wagner concoction , Souvenir de Bayreuth , in which Collard is ably partnered by Brune Rigutto .
26 If anything Britten outdoes his models by the pointedness of his treatment , in which irony is constantly heightened into a more specific symbolism .
27 If one seeks to understand the way in which politics is gradually dragged into the gutter , it is because hon. Members come out with such a simplistic approach .
28 Food could be turned into energy via respiration , in which glucose is either derived from food or from photosynthesis .
29 The principal way in which characterization is thus exploited in Dame Sirith lies in the use of formulaic language , in particular in the use of terms appropriate to the romance of fin amour .
30 These classes are more than ‘ income groups ’ , they are created by the way in which production is socially organised .
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