Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the inventor is keeping quiet about which one for fear of piracy . |
| 2 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 3 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 4 | In places the grass was gone altogether and everywhere there were clusters of dry droppings , through which nothing but the ragwort would grow . |
| 5 | Others complain he provides a moronic stereotype of black people for which they in turn must suffer . |
| 6 | The decision to believe was one for which I at least was fully responsible . |
| 7 | The Levites are given the nation 's tithes ( one tenth of all the flocks and herds and produce ) , of which they in turn give one tenth to the priests . |
| 8 | We will not entertain it sir , because it raises a whole host of wider and different issues , many of which we in fact considered yesterday in the context of Stockton , if you will recall . |
| 9 | The only time he can guarantee not to be called out is during his annual leave , of which plenty of notice is necessary . |
| 10 | By the end of the century , a pattern emerged through Europe of societies of artists breaking away from official organisations , creating seceding groups , of which one in Austria adopted the word as a title , Sezession . |
| 11 | Throw away all the books that give a stable routine which starts at 7am with morning feed and fills up the rest of the day with activities like quartering and setting fair — most of which none of us have time for ! |
| 12 | ( 1 ) that as between two competing holders of equitable interests , if their equities are equal the first in time prevails and ( 2 ) that a bona fide purchaser for value of a legal interest takes free of earlier equitable interests of which he as no notice at the time of purchase . |
| 13 | Take a step back , view it from the angles and it becomes a sort of absurdist roman fleuve , a Dada- Climbers with which anyone with a tape-recorder and a gift for transcription would run away with the Boardman Tasker prize . |
| 14 | The rise of the speculative office block presents problems with which someone like Nash would have been unfamiliar . |
| 15 | The commission is effectively saying the Government has not followed the UN Convention for Refugees , under which anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution should be granted asylum . |
| 16 | That is the price the Chancellor and the Prime Minister think is worth paying — the price of decline and despair for families , the price of the dissolution of industries upon which we in this country depend for our future . |
| 17 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |
| 18 | Young children will often , for instance , feel a sense of responsibility for adverse events in which they in fact had no role at all , and hence experience a good deal of anxiety . |
| 19 | least periods of months and hopefully , well rather more than that , they would work things out in a way in which they in fact helped each other very considerably . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't envisage any circumstances in which we as church leaders would talk . ’ |
| 21 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 22 | We shall meet copies in which something of the original beauty seems to live through these disadvantages . |
| 23 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 24 | The celebration must take place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. , and must be preceded by a publication of banns or the obtaining of a Registrar 's certificate or a Bishop 's or Registrar 's licence , and unless a special licence is obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury , must take place in a recognized place of worship or Registrar 's office situate in the district in which one at least of the parties resides . |
| 25 | I puzzled over this one for some time and came to the conclusion that my children 's concept of life is largely derived from fairy stories in which anybody with power is always male . |
| 26 | On the way to Barcelona , the Olympic torch pays a little detour to Benidorm where it can ignite a real roarer of a bonfire in which anybody in possession of a ‘ Brits on the piss ! ’ |
| 27 | A woman is the ‘ opposite ’ to Christ in a way in which someone of another race is not . |
| 28 | It was like the star chefs , like the film directors who think they make films single-handed , it was a world of overblown egos in which someone like Dennis — and , goddamn it , he had known some tribulations in his day ! — could forget or , worse , overlook the common decencies of humanity . |
| 29 | A further offence is to be found in the Mail Order Transactions ( Information ) Order 1976 , whereby written advertisements in which someone in the course of a business invites from consumers mail orders for goods , with payment in advance , must include a legible description of the name and address of the person inviting the orders . |
| 30 | The most remarkable thing is the way in which someone from the most privileged home in the land should strike a chord with those from the most deprived backgrounds . |