Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] which [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their guilt is exacerbated by the fact that their evident unwillingness to intervene has allowed the aggressors a free hand in ordaining unlimited parameters within which to pursue their monstrous activities . |
| 2 | She had no words in which to express her present distaste for the idea . |
| 3 | Black kids , suspicious and pessimistic about their chances of gaining success in regular employment in the ‘ system ’ , look to alternative models upon which to base their own roles in society . |
| 4 | Some readers , particularly those convinced that if only we thought long enough , or prayed hard enough , we would discover reassuring tethering posts to which to secure our moral choices , will view with some disquiet the position reached so far . |
| 5 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 6 | She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 7 | Lorne sees best when looking through his camera viewfinder — the contents of which become his whole world . |
| 8 | Soon she would not have the troops with which to maintain her responsible policy of granting independence only when a colony was politically , economically , and militarily ready to stand on its own feet . |
| 9 | God willing , I should like a few more years in which to settle my own account . |
| 10 | The probe started after the Revenue discovered that two Welsh farmers had not declared their income for 11 years in which time their actual earning amounted to £90,000 and £250,000 . |
| 11 | And alongside 64 memories in which to store your own unique sounds , the SY35 comes with 128 stunning preset voices that you can play straight away . |
| 12 | One system , FilePower from Optika , has icons of filing cabinets with names underneath which makes it simple to use , while others will have more recognisable fields and records . |
| 13 | The acme of parental care among amphibians , however , is that provided by a West African species of Nectophrynoides , the females of which retain their young inside their bodies in a way that compares very closely with the technique of placental mammals . |
| 14 | For once the Germans were no better off ; there were no materials with which to build their beloved Stollen , even had the French artillery provided a respite . |
| 15 | Coventry have four games in which to extend their 25-year tenure in the top flight with Mr Howe admitting they are short of confidence . |
| 16 | Pupils need standards against which to measure their own performance . |
| 17 | The two alliances were ascribed territories in which to produce their social structures , political institutions , coercive bodies , informal and interpersonal networks of maintaining influence , and more clearly defined hegemonic cultures . |
| 18 | just pinch her hand , give her a firm handshake because you 've got about ninety seconds in which to make your first impression and of the ninety seconds about ninety five percent of that time is made through visual images and that can be your dress sense , the way you carry yourself , present yourself , erm body language , do n't invade his personal space , only I think about erm I think about twelve , twelve seconds off of ninety seconds , or there thereabouts is spent on what you say . |
| 19 | The Spear & Jackson Neverbend range has an excellent hand trowel and fork ( about £5 ) , the 12in wooden handles of which make them suitable for many jobs . |
| 20 | Moreover , as Newby ( 1990 ) has pointed out , the complexities of environmental research have created a new kind of relationship between research and policy : ‘ in the past , … the relationship was predicated on the belief that science provided decision-makers with objective ‘ hard ’ facts on which to base their soft , value-ridden policies … . |