Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] which [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underdogs Cambridge survived a desperate opening 13 minutes during which they never set foot in Oxford 's half . |
| 2 | Many teachers are not teaching the subjects for which they originally qualified and the audit can reveal other hidden skills and talents . |
| 3 | In choosing between the goals towards which I spontaneously tend , I may find myself being excited more strongly by what I perceive here and now than by what I imagine from other viewpoints , so that for example a present amusement obliterates consciousness of a future danger . |
| 4 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |
| 5 | However , after attention lapses he can retain his insights into another person , and use them in choices of means , without abandoning his long-term egoistic ends for the altruistic goals to which he briefly felt himself drawn ; he can therefore claim to have obeyed ‘ Be aware ’ without ceasing to be an egoist . |
| 6 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that one of the most important subjects on which he obviously made so much progress with President Yeltsin was that of non-proliferation ? |
| 7 | It is his 81st , is dedicated to the pit communities for which he still cares so deeply even though the pits have all but vanished , and costs £1 for a miner 's sideways look at life which is probably no more . |
| 8 | Although there was never any chance of rival armies fighting out last June — that was a fantasy nourished by pro-democracy propaganda and the American networks — there were considerable tensions of which we now have a better understanding . |
| 9 | In the Macdonald household at Armadale , he asked questions busily and settled himself to a general spirit of enquiry , the fruits of which he then presents in his Journey . |
| 10 | And in Scotland and Wales because there were no equivalents to the metropolitan districts , major urban centres were left as part of much bigger administrative areas with which they sometimes had little in common . |
| 11 | Our contribution to the liberation of Kuwait ( and , during the 1980s , to the protection of the Falkland Islands ) ; our longer term contribution to the success of NATO and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact — these are matters in which we rightly take pride . |
| 12 | They are matters to which I now turn . |
| 13 | He was a tireless worker for the cause of deafness , opening many missions and institutes , attending many bazaars and functions to which he always managed to bring influential friends who would spend money freely . |
| 14 | Their resistance to lower and higher temperatures varies from species to species and there are no thresholds at which they suddenly disappear : rather do the reefs become impoverished , probably through interference with reproductive processes ; 36° C ( 97° F ) seems to be as high a temperature as most species can stand , but there are exceptions even among allegedly sensitive species . |
| 15 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 16 | The men and women we read about in the Bible have aspirations and failings with which we easily identify , and even the heroes of Scripture are displayed in the cold light of truth . |
| 17 | The precise course of such relations and the detailed moral requirements they generate depend on the way individuals choose to develop them and the different normative implications with which they deliberately endow the relations . |
| 18 | Moving on to look at the fact I mean you had erm and it is n't the fact that you 're still working in the shop , you 're still helping the shop , you 've had forty years in which you actually lived here did n't you ? about forty years ? |
| 19 | It seems rare , however , for muscles to transgress the limits of the segments to which they originally belonged . |
| 20 | The second major groups of carers to which we now turn are the younger ( usually ) relatives caring for an elderly disabled member of the household . |
| 21 | Ciccolini is capable of very stylish virtuosity and shows this to great effect in the more extrovert pieces to which he also brings genuine humour ( as opposed to the archness which spoils so many performances of Satie 's music ) . |
| 22 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 23 | In fact long before the last five years he was copiously producing more or less fantastical inventions with which he comprehensively worked through a natural flair for parody , irony and offbeat musical humour . |
| 24 | I have also enclosed an interesting article by David Wilkinson of IEEP , expressing views with which we strongly concur . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , shared housing in private or college accommodation can be as educative and stimulating as the studies for which you primarily go to college . |
| 26 | The committee bases its views on the experience of Depo 's use in conditions for which it already has a licence . |
| 27 | For the lack of overt reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ in his major speeches , and the omission of his name as a signatory to the boycott ‘ appeal ’ can only be seen as a deliberate policy to detach the Führer himself in his public image from the violent anti Jewish rhetoric and actions of which he privately approved . |
| 28 | A few years after Lanfranc 's arrival , Eadmer described the English monks as living the lives of earls rather than monks , ‘ in all worldly glory , with gold and silver , with changes of fine clothes and delicate food , not to speak of the various kinds of musical instruments in which they delighted , and the horses , dogs and hawks with which they sometimes took exercise ’ . |
| 29 | They believed implicitly in the effectiveness of their method of preparing and getting the bone , and they were certain that the bone 's power stemmed as much from the special treatment it had during the ceremony as from the actual jailing or drawing substances with which they afterwards impregnated it . |
| 30 | Even the schools were built in the corners of crowded burial grounds , or over public sewers into which they slowly sank . |