Example sentences of "[noun] of which [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These chemicals are , by general definition , detergents although the term has now come to be restricted to a group of synthetic chemicals which have very specific effects the result of which is that dirt is taken into suspension in a stable form that allows it to be rinsed away . |
| 2 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |
| 3 | Evidence of a psychologist was heard on the voir dire , the essence of whose testimony was that when B had made the admissions he had been suffering from a relatively mild form of paranoid psychosis , the effect of which was that , under the stress of questioning , he would have felt very threatened , been likely to tell lies , and to make untrue admissions . |
| 4 | BECAUSE ‘ Mad , Scared , Dumb And Gorgeous ’ debut from a new duo , one half of which is former Furniture vocalist Jim Irvin |
| 5 | a term borrowed from the Victorian pseudo-science of phrenology , the basic premiss of which was that character could be gauged from the shape of the skull , which phrenologists divided into some 40 sections or ‘ organs ’ , each one being the seat of a mental or moral faculty . |
| 6 | Also the lining , the types and varieties of which are many , is quite unnecessary ! |
| 7 | Looking up , he found he was standing under a short vertical shaft , at the top of which was another trapdoor . |
| 8 | Where a word used in a lease has multiple meanings , one of which is its ordinary meaning and the other of which is some technical meaning , there must be some objective evidence that the parties intended the technical meaning to be adopted , otherwise the word will be construed in its ordinary sense ( Holt & Co v Collyer ( 1881 ) 16 ChD 719 ) . |
| 9 | This assumption is also implicit in the major 1964 oil and sugar agreement , the terms of which were such that ‘ Had Cuba been able to deliver in full its annual commitment of sugar to the USSR , this would in all probability have balanced the cost of Cuban imports from the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | The delightful gardens , at their best in the late August sunshine , were home to peacocks and hens , cockerels , a caged canary , a goat that kept the grass trim in a neat semi-circle around the tree to which it was tethered , several dogs and a sizeable cattery — stars of which were some blue-grey Abyssinians . |
| 11 | By s 9(1) of the Housing Act 1988 , the court may adjourn for such period as it thinks fit , proceedings for possession of assured tenancies , and may stay , suspend , or postpone a claim for possession — but an order for possession must not in general be postponed to a date later than fourteen days from judgment , unless this would cause exceptional hardship , when up to six weeks may be allowed ( s 89(1) of the Houseing Act 1980 ) ; the maximum of 14 days is subject to important qualifications ( s 89(2) ) examples of which are those cases under the Rent Act 1977 where the court may only order possession if reasonable , possession actions by mortgagees when the period is 28 days , and by lessors for forfeiture for non-payment of rent , when any order for possession must be for not less than four weeks ( s 138(3) of the 1984 Act ) . |
| 12 | And on the next page a long , uplifting sentence from a French sociologist , the gist of which was that dying was something we needed a lot of help with . |
| 13 | The slack periods are night shifts during the mid-week , and the boredom compounds the general dislike of night duty , the only redeeming feature of which is that formal control in the station is relaxed because of the absence of senior managers . |