Example sentences of "[prep] which it could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , ‘ sweat is of such a nature that it would not appear upon the skin unless pores existed through which it could pass from inside to the outside ’ . |
| 2 | When the DUP began , the only formal channel through which it could pursue its politics was Stormont and Paisley and Beattie were outnumbered in a very short-lived parliament . |
| 3 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 4 | Second , the Commission was urging that the EEC , by which it meant itself , should have an independent source of revenue out of which it could finance its own activities : the EEC was still dependent upon direct contributions from national treasuries . |
| 5 | The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians . |
| 6 | When it met after the Conference it set up a subcommittee to draft acceptable Standing Orders with which it could approach the Labour Party National Executive . |
| 7 | In other words , the DTI had failed to understand fully its own legal powers with which it could have put pressure on Barlow Clowes . |
| 8 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 9 | But Ginsberg realised that it was a conditional matter , and the task of sociology as he saw it was to discern and specify the conditions under which it could continue . |
| 10 | We reached an agreement with BOC under which it could provide the welding hardware that we would sell with our robots . |
| 11 | Such was Prussia , where a new system of recruiting , based on the allocation to each regiment of a defined area , a canton , upon which it could draw for its manpower , was introduced in the 1730s . |
| 12 | Once this trend for the relaxation of the 1970 legislation began , the EPA considered that the only way in which it could slow down or stop this erosion , short of a resurgence in the environmental movement , would be to show more flexibility in its administration of the Act , especially towards new industry . |
| 13 | And I do n't think there is any realistic way in which it could cope with the flows of a fourteen hundred dwelling new settlement . |
| 14 | Ed Zschau , chief executive of IBM Corp 's AdStar subsidiary , says the company plans to become known as a consumer products company as well as the leader in commercial storage products , and would pursue all of the market opportunities in which it could offer unique products ; he says AdStar aims to become the lowest cost producer in the industry , taking advantage of its technology , scale and commitment to quality ; speaking at the product launch in San Jose , he said that AdStar would also become known , more than it is today , as a software company ; it expects to have personal computer-oriented products in the retail market before the end of the year . |
| 15 | First , as until at least the late 1960's the Club was in poor straits financially — mostly , but not entirely , to do with low membership , there was no way in which it could contemplate buying out the bonds either at par or in instalments ( of not less than £2 10s. 0d. per bond ) as allowed by the rules . |
| 16 | The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was a public-trust authority which was becoming rapidly insolvent , yet there was no way in law in which it could go into liquidation . |
| 17 | The only way in which it could have been avoided was for de Gaulle to change his style of leadership . |
| 18 | His Attorney-General ( his third ! ) resigned in protest , and on 23 October the House of Representatives began to consider the impeachment of the President — he only constitutional way in which it could remove a President considered unfit for office . |
| 19 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |
| 20 | It was beginning to take over from the London external degrees , and had already established a substantial range of subject areas in which it could work . |
| 21 | In his book , Operational Review , Ken Impey , former head of internal audit at Reed International , sets out the typical broad headings under which an organisation could classify its different risks : ‘ disastrous ’ ( threatening damage which it could not expect to survive ) , ‘ seriously damaging ’ ( materially weakening it but from which it could expect to recover ) and ‘ unlikely to be material ’ . |
| 22 | A rewarded training trial consisted of transporting a rat in a slowly rotating opaque box from an adjoining room and putting it into the arena at and facing the centre of the N , S , E or W side-wall ( shown as an unfilled circle ) from which it could move around freely until it found the F+ feeder ; a non-rewarded trial lasted 60s and was conducted without either landmarks or feeders . |
| 23 | The 18 neighbours of an animal are the 18 different kinds of children that it can give rise to , and the 18 different kinds of parent from which it could have come , given the rules of our computer model . |
| 24 | It developed a fleet of ships , headed by the Rainbow Warrior , from which it could play the much-publicized role of unarmed protector of the world 's defenceless ecology . |
| 25 | The degree of stability to which it could attain remained to be seen . |
| 26 | He opened his recruitment consultancy in January 1991 , just as the recession was revealing the depths to which it could sink . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the tendon developed in the right place even though it had no muscle to which it could attach . |
| 28 | One of the crucial questions emerging for the CNAA during the 1970s was in fact the extent to which it could take initiatives as well as being responsive . |
| 29 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 30 | The extent to which it could have been foreseen and thus pre-empted by a more alert administration , which tried to foresee coming trends , seems to be a matter of disagreement among prison administrators , critics and researchers in many jurisdictions . |