Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others , for the same reasons or for what they believe are reasons of legal principle , may argue that no murder is committed , on the basis of the reasoning noted earlier that the ventilator is ‘ prolonging life ’ , and turning it off is an omission permitting death , not a commission causing death . |
| 2 | They go off and tell untruths about the organisations for which they are working — in fact , downright lies — or for which they worked . |
| 3 | Periodic volcanism has occurred on the Kaapvaal craton in southern Africa since the Archaean era , and each episode will have modified the composition of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle in which the magmas were generated or through which they passed , or in other words caused mantle metasomatism . |
| 4 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 5 | In consequence they are often disappointed with how they have spent their time or with what they have achieved . |
| 6 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 7 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |
| 8 | Finally , there will be a few situations in which local authorities have been almost entirely the innovators , in which they have sought to promote local acts through Parliament or in which they have interpreted general powers given to them in quite novel ways . |
| 9 | As many as 35 per cent took jobs which they regarded as " stop-gap " or in which they intended to stay for only a short period . |
| 10 | The substance of the book is a case study of the particular ways in which women 's employment is accommodated within the household and family or in which it brings about changes of various kinds , but its further aim is to explore the structural similarities between the experiences of industrialised India and Western Europe in respect of changing family forms and the position of women . |
| 11 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 12 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 13 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 14 | Since then I have always had trouble with films that were supposed to teach me something , or from which I hoped to learn . |
| 15 | ( c ) No partner should carry on any business which competes with the firm or from which he derives benefit at the expense of the firm Section 30 of the Partnership Act provides as follows : If a partner , without the consent of the other partners , carries on any business of the same nature as and competing with that of the firm , he must account for and pay over to the firm all profits made by him in that business . |
| 16 | The more ‘ costly ’ your child finds it to be removed from the limelight or from whatever he/she finds rewarding about misbehaving , the more effective is time-out likely to be . |
| 17 | This was true , in its way , but that did not prevent great-nephews and great-nieces becoming irritated when Auntie babied them and fussed over their clothing or over whatever they happened to be doing . |
| 18 | Advertising is simply the action of drawing public attention to goods , services , events , or to whatever you want them to pay attention . |
| 19 | In fact , several believers have done excellent sociological studies of a religion in which they themselves believe ( eg Smith , 1982 ; Hornsby-Smith , 1979 ) , or to which they converted during the course of their study ( Jules-Rosette , 1975 , or , as an example of a partial conversion followed by a withdrawal , Rochford , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | This is a person who , amongst other things , gives a vocal lead , with or without accompaniment , in singing phrases which the congregation repeats , or to which it responds . |
| 21 | There was no point in past music with which he had to reconcile what he wanted to say , or to which he had necessarily to make reference . |
| 22 | His own sources among the Altun had picked up vague hints of another conception upon which Sidacai had drawn or to which he had been led . |
| 23 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 24 | In each of these examples Acheson was , of course , referring to China but so much of what he said here ( or to which he gave his name ) now seems to be an epitaph for the experiences of Vietnam . |
| 25 | Note , if you attempt to use option 1.3.1 to read out a package containing a module which is HARDCPY ( hard copy only available ) , or NOISSUE ( no issue ) or to which you have no access , an error message will be displayed and option 1.3.2 , 1.3.3 , 1.3.4 or 1.3.5 must be used to selectively read out the modules in the package which are available . |
| 26 | His eyes seemed riveted on his hands — or on what they touched . |
| 27 | It does n't even depend on whether she 's well or happy or not tired or on what she wears . |
| 28 | You can play it by the odds , by intuition , or by what you feel is morally right , but you and Bill are the ones who have to live with the result . |
| 29 | Do n't be conned by your school friends or by what you see on TV ! |
| 30 | But it was work , and he need no longer allow Dinah to pay for anything , except for what she chose to purchase for herself . |