Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] which [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we have been concerned with the sharp end of the political process — with the institutions on which rests the job of maintaining order and of enforcing the decisions of the political process , however reached , on any citizens or foreign persons who do not voluntarily accept them . |
| 2 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 3 | There is even evidence to suggest that elephants existed as far as the Upper Euphrates basin as late as the first millennium B.C. Syrian ivory contributed to the supplies available to New Kingdom Egypt and at the same time provided the material for the flourishing school of ivory workers based on Tyre , the products of which enriched the civilizations of the east Mediterranean and Assyria . |
| 4 | The boilers to raise the necessary steam were of ‘ Lancashire ’ type , the characteristics of which enable a small amount of steam to be supplied over long periods with a minimum of attention , which was the type of duty envisaged for this plant . |
| 5 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 6 | There are three basic considerations : ( 1 ) the need to avoid the consequences of a dissolution and winding up of the whole business ; ( 2 ) the need to define the circumstances in which leaving the partnership is permitted or made compulsory ; and ( 3 ) the need to anticipate the financial and administrative consequences of the departure of members of the firm . |
| 7 | Mrs Robinson was banished below decks and confined to the kitchens from which emerged a steady issue of victuals from forenoon to midnight . |
| 8 | Size is not the main criterion , however , as has been shown by Winterton , the buildings of which occupy a large area , with no apparent country house ; it is essentially a working establishment with enough barns to suggest grain as one of its main products . |
| 9 | Just as the clinical professions can provide parents with the language and the concepts with which to take a negative view of the child , so they can provide the unwitting stimulus for the parent to enter a new , positive world in which things ‘ fall into place ’ . |
| 10 | Girls , Millett argues , are fully cognisant of male supremacy long before they see their brother 's penis ; and what they envy is not the penis , but the things to which having a penis gives the boy access — power , status and rewards . |
| 11 | This is exactly what Chancellor Norman Lamont is about to do in order to find the resources with which to give the economy its required boost . |
| 12 | It provides the resources with which to face the implications of change for one 's own religious tradition without fear , but with exhilaration . |
| 13 | Chardonnay vines can be recognised by the dull , yellow-brown colour of the canes which have a noticeable bloom and darker nodes ( the point where buds will emerge ) ; their slightly bullate ( bubbly ) leaves , the edges of which have a tendency to curl upwards ( some varieties curl downwards or not at all ) ; and the compact clusters of small , round , yellow-amber grapes . |
| 14 | However the main merit of Mr Frye 's analysis , at this moment , is that besides describing Tolkien 's literary category so well it further indicates , first , an inevitable problem associated with that category , and then , more indirectly , the terms in which to express a solution . |
| 15 | Another plant much used for hair colouring is chamomile , the flower-heads of which provide a solution which lightens light-brown and fair hair appreciably ; saffron will have the same effect . |
| 16 | The next section contains a questionnaire , the answers to which indicate the individual 's preferential adaptability to the A or B job . |
| 17 | There is a distinct paucity of entirely new courses to mention , but the ‘ work in hand ’ element of Nelson 's various acquisitions over the years has led to Workout at intermediate and upper intermediate level ( née Collins ) , as well as Nelson 's own Distinction , a new post-FCE course some of the exercises in which follow the format of the CAE exam . |
| 18 | The Parler family was an architectural one , the members of which had a great deal of influence on Gothic architecture both in Czechoslovakia and further afield to Vienna and Milan . |
| 19 | In September that year , the ETS sent out a questionnaire to its chapels , the results of which indicated a total of " 63 girls " in employment . |
| 20 | and appear with their study of specific heats , the results of which dealt a severe blow to the Laplacian school that supported the caloric theory . |
| 21 | The tavern was just near the Custom House on the corner of Thames Street , a grand , spacious affair with a green-leaved ale-stake pushed under the eaves from which hung a huge , gaudily painted sign . |
| 22 | Later , eugenicists stressed the importance of teaching women the criteria by which to choose a mate . |
| 23 | Indeed , they are essential for the control of aquatic insect life ( which otherwise disfigures aquatic plants ) and the larvae of the mosquito , the adults of which plague the gardener on summer evenings . |
| 24 | Fifty years ago , when the world was younger and sex was an altogether simpler if scarcer commodity , there was a popular song , the lyrics of which brooked no argument : ‘ Love and marriage , love and marriage , go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 25 | The person from whom you have to get these things needs to interview you simultaneously in order to get the facts on which to base a judgement of what you need and/or whether you should have it . |