Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The place from which he rose and to which he descended at the limits of earth and Underworld was the primeval ocean , from where he had emerged , which was the god Nun , the father of the gods . |
| 4 | It was only eight weeks since we had left Aubagne yet there was a difference in the way in which we behaved and in which we saw ourselves . |
| 5 | It is at any rate a sketch of what might be involved in restoring a writer — in this case , the young Pound — to the highly specific social milieu , that of Edwardian England , in which he moved and on which he impinged . |
| 6 | " The Wonders " or " Marvels " was the basic guide book , immensely popular , which everybody read and to which they added their own impressions . |
| 7 | The government officials recognized the system since most bureaucrats owed their own position to nepotism and patronage , perpetuating ‘ a procedure to which they originally resorted and to which they are committed and indebted ’ . |
| 8 | The Adour , which is much the wider , is also the clearer , approximately water-coloured , you could say ; the Nive is the rich colour nearly of chocolate , which is appropriate enough given that Bayonne was long famous for the chocolate that it made and in which it traded . |
| 9 | The exception is a Scottish pig farmer who stands uneasily next to the carcass of Jamie , a pig he reluctantly slaughtered and to which he was so attached he credited it with the IQ of a three-year-old child . |
| 10 | Over time the Tree — and its fruit — came to be understood as part of the sacred source of life , a manifestation of Mother Goddess , from whose body the whole world sprang and to which it would return . |
| 11 | ’ After this horrifying war , which the Serbs started and in which they committed most of the horrors , people will want to ponder how such things came to be said . |
| 12 | From this modest start in 1905 the publication developed into a highly respected and widely read quarterly magazine which Ayliffe edited and to which he contributed until 1947 . |
| 13 | To them she was more than a mass of steel and wood ; she had moods and feelings which they understood and to which they fitted their own . |
| 14 | Under these circumstances potential consumers will simply shrug their shoulders , walk away and do without goods they needed or wanted and for which they were ready to pay . |