Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] it can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the key benefits of the move will be to give Enterprise Training access to a professional marketing department through which it can promote awareness of its services to employers . |
| 2 | The imposition of colonial rule by the metropolitan bourgeoisie requires the creation of a state apparatus ‘ through which it can exercise dominion over all the indigenous social classes in the colony ’ . |
| 3 | It has spiracles along its side through which it can breathe , but it neither feeds nor excretes . |
| 4 | It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 . |
| 5 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 6 | It is also considering what it can do to meet the demand for more information by such measures as explanatory videos , evening classes or workplace clinics . |
| 7 | In spite of this , advertisers , agencies and researchers persist in pushing the interpretation of recall well beyond the limits of what it can tell them . |
| 8 | Drawbacks : Expensive but , in terms of what it can do , this microwave is good enough to replace a conventional oven ( although remember cooking space is limited in that you could n't , say , do the roast and vegetables at the same time ) . |
| 9 | I use it only because of what it can become in later stages of evolution : the power of a snake 's fang , for instance , to propagate ( by its indirect consequences on snake survival ) DNA coding for fangs . |
| 10 | The committee went on to recommend ‘ some form of overall plan towards which the authority will work and against which it can measure its achievement ’ . |
| 11 | The endemic Hong Kong cascade frog has evolved suction pads on the end of each toe with which it can cling to the slippery rocks when the flash-floods strike . |
| 12 | High oxygen levels are not important , for the fish has an air bladder with which it can breathe air . |
| 13 | The government has instruments , particularly monetary and debt policy , with which it can offset the aggregate effects of taxes . |
| 14 | We now know that every particle has an antiparticle , with which it can annihilate . |
| 15 | Proud of the speed with which it can run Windows 3.1 applications on Sparc systems using its SunPC hardware and software combination , SunSelect vice president and general manager Carl Ledbetter could still not resist speculating that future technology for running PC applications from Sun would ‘ go way beyond the current generation , without the need for a card ’ . |
| 16 | Though the most successful Welsh language programme on S4C , its daily audience of an average 200,000 ( almost half Wales 's Welsh-speaking population ) is a drop in the ocean compared with what it can attract on BBC2 . |
| 17 | Law facilitates commercial activity by providing structures within which it can take place . |
| 18 | Each species ' range is determined by the area within which it can outbreed potential rivals because it is better adapted to that set of conditions : |
| 19 | The Robot Drill works by gripping the sides of its own hole , and anchoring itself until the bit has made space in which it can move on . |
| 20 | A captive giraffe has a right to a cage in which it can stand straight up … |
| 21 | It is the Board 's intention to identify ways in which it can extend examination options for secretarial staff . |
| 22 | It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food . |
| 23 | The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage . |
| 24 | However , it is clear that calcium has a multiplicity of effects within the cell , and there are other ways in which it can affect the synaptic membrane . |
| 25 | The New Testament describes the presence and effects of prejudice , and in strong terms describes the way in which it can contribute to conflict . |
| 26 | The basic species type , Rosa pimpinellifolia ( or , as it used to be called , R. spinosissima ) grows very well in most soils , but flourishes particularly in light sandy soils in which it can indulge its natural habit of spreading to form large prickly thickets by means of underground runners and suckers . |
| 27 | It 's an area in which IT can play a leading role , and has rekindled interest in workflow and other document management systems . |
| 28 | On the other hand , putting a time or place adverbial , such as today or on the shelf , say , at the beginning of the clause , carries more meaning because it is the result of choice : there are other positions in which it can occur . |
| 29 | Suppose also that it is somehow possible to place it in a space capsule in which it can survive , so far as can be seen , for ever , without any external aid . |
| 30 | Instead of fleeing to a safe place and hiding away there with complete body concealment , the animal takes up a semi-hidden position from which it can remain watchful . |