Example sentences of "[prep] which [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm cos if you start thinking about the four-sided ones there 's the square which everybody knows about which is again is the regular polygon is n't it ? |
| 2 | Use your discretion about which is best able to take it . |
| 3 | Right and they had this bit they 're in these white sailor 's uniform and they 're stripping the gloves off which was really uninteresting but they all looked really , you know , smart and they were saluting . |
| 4 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 5 | It lays down that loyalty to the nation — and in established States , the State — ought to take priority over all other loyalties , including that to the family , and that the crime of disloyalty is treason , the punishment for which is frequently death ( that is , the nation has the power of life and death over its members ) . |
| 6 | Two stages are involved , the reason for which is neatly summarized in this quotation from C.S. Lewis : The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is — what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used . |
| 7 | We would also introduce measures to support training , provision for which is still being cut , as both the autumn statement and the Chief Secretary 's evidence to the Select Committee have revealed , while unemployment soars . |
| 8 | Nurse managers have a responsibility for the settings in which patients are cared for which is far greater than the same responsibility of nurses at large , simply because they are employed in positions which enable them to make appropriate representations . |
| 9 | The first pattern a beginner learns is called ‘ taegeuk ’ , the correct name for which is actually ‘ taegeuk poomse ’ . |
| 10 | Although such investment will inevitably benefit US companies , especially those in equipment manufacture , steel-making and construction , there will also be opportunities for foreign companies — Clinton has plans for a high-speed rail network , for example , equipment for which is currently not made by US companies — and one can imagine a fierce ‘ Buy America ’ debate over any major public works piece of legislation . |
| 11 | Among specific proposals are the introduction of internationally-traded " permits to pollute " , a plan for which is currently being prepared by the UN Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) , and the payment by industrialized countries of compensation to rainforest states in recognition of the global " carbon absorption services " performed by their trees . |
| 12 | Before the final curtain some teams had registered and paid their deposit for the 1994 tournament to be held in Birmingham , preparations for which are already well under way . |
| 13 | eliciting the logic behind a complex improvised music , the rules for which are rarely ( and only incompletely ) verbalised by its performers ; |
| 14 | Most applications are for two single fields , the normal requirements for which are often different , in which case the conditions are averaged . |
| 15 | In the fourth quarter of 1991 the total amount outstanding on credit agreements with consumers ( broader coverage which includes loans on bank personal accounts , by insurers and by retailers figures for which are only available quarterly ) fell by £0.24bn , compared with an increase of £0.13bn in the previous quarter . |
| 16 | They believe that no part of the money should be used to finance Sizewell C , proposals for which are still on the drawing board awaiting a decision on whether to apply for planning permission . |
| 17 | This being a self-acting incline the empty trucks were dragged up by the full ones , the long chain or rope to which they were linked , passing , of course , around the sheaved wheel the stanchions for which are still to be seen . |
| 18 | A parting invitation from the Countess that , when he had finished his business at Berwick , Sandy Ramsay might come back and help supervise the sinking of the proposed booms in the sea , the timber for which was already being felled , was cordially supported by Mariot . |
| 19 | Their enthusiasm for the research increased after the policemen and women in Easton had reassured themselves about the field-worker 's religion , sensitivity towards which was initially intensified by the common-sense view among some ordinary constables that Queen 's University is a Republican stronghold . |
| 20 | Her eponymous shop at 103 Wandsworth Bridge Road , London SW6 , has an excellent range of man-made blooms , some of which are positively blowzy in their realism . |
| 21 | Its inclusion is typical of the exhibits , most of which are either dinky or bloody ridiculous . |
| 22 | Comparisons were compiled on 29 projects , all of which are either new models or major model changes . |
| 23 | The second observation is that learning is a " total " event in that is involves the entire person. , The third and most characteristic observation is that a person is constantly responding to innumerable influences , a few of which are conscious and rational , but most of which are either non-conscious or non-rational , or both . |
| 24 | ‘ Two alternative valuation and survey services are available to you , both of which are primarily for your use — house buyers ' report or structural survey . |
| 25 | Snowy owl assemblages have relatively higher rates of molar loss than barn owl and long-eared owl assemblages , and this almost certainly reflects their dominance by lemmings , the teeth of which are loosely held in the jaws . |
| 26 | Under the terms of the 1982 Constitution legislative authority is vested in the National People 's Congress ( NPC ) , the 2,978 members of which are indirectly elected ( most recently in 1988 — see p. 36101 ) for five years . |
| 27 | Under the terms of the 1982 Constitution legislative authority is vested in the National People 's Congress ( NPC ) , the members ( approximately 3,000 ) of which are indirectly elected for five years . |
| 28 | Such an exercise can span huge parameter ranges in which quite different behaviours are observed ( but all of which are intimately tied up with the existence of periodic orbits : even the strange attractor is densely packed with unstable orbits ) . |
| 29 | The true place of inflation in calculating the cost of credit is as part of a triangle which has as its other sides the interest to be gained from instalment savings and the interest to be paid for instalment credit — both of which are broadly related to inflation rates anyway . |
| 30 | The activity posited by Brentano , secondly , is common not only to seeing and other perception , thinking in the sense of deliberating or judging , and also remembering , intending , and deciding , all of which are ordinarily thought to be in different ways active , but also pain and other sensations , dreaming , experiencing an emotion , and being subject to a mood , all of which are thought to be in different ways passive . |