Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [prep] which [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the greatness of the ancient empire to which the Shah was attracted and with which he constantly compared his own achievements and ambitions . |
| 2 | Though primarily a commentary on Henry II 's government in England , the Policraticus used the terms of Roman law , princeps for ruler and provincia , province , for the area of his rule ; these suggest that John also intended his book to be relevant to France , the land in which he had been educated and to which he was to return as bishop of Chartres . |
| 3 | Pizzorno argues that the modern underdevelopment of the south of Italy can only be understood in terms of the historical relationship of area to the locations of power and productivity by which it has been dominated and to which it has been marginal . |
| 4 | He describes the reformation in faith , secured at baptism and by penance , leaving the soul as if on the very brink of a pit from which it has been rescued but into which it is in imminent danger of falling back . |
| 5 | Thus , the FIATA freight forwarder is not generally the actual carrier of the goods , although it can carry the cargo in vehicles or vessels it owns or has leased or of which it is the designated operator . |
| 6 | The Ministry is one for which Mr Toubon has long been prepared and in which he is determined to make a mark , despite the obvious difficulties of taking over from such an active and popular man as Jack Lang . |
| 7 | Because of the hostile environment for which they were built and in which they excel , Beavers are rarely seen by us ‘ soft ’ folk from civilization ; yet who knows how many are still soldiering on ( Beavering away ? ) in the jungles , mountains , deserts and tundra of the world ? |
| 8 | After the war I vowed I would never wear a white tie again , and never have , I dislike it so much ; so , having been informed that most of those below the salt would be wearing black ties anyway , I put on my Kennedy tartan smoking jacket with green velvet facings which I had recently had made and of which I was sure that Sir Walter , who often wore a plaid , would have approved . |
| 9 | The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid … |
| 10 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 11 | They would express an unqualified opinion in these circumstances , taking into account the treatment of any matters affected by uncertainty ; auditors would draw attention to the way in which inherent uncertainties had been treated ; and their reports would state the date on which the audit was completed and on which their opinion is expressed . |
| 12 | That is the commitment that we have given and by which we stand . |
| 13 | All that is on top of the emergency accommodation to which I have just referred and about which we are talking to Single Homeless in London . |
| 14 | In practice , the planning system is being used to settle disputes between neighbours in a way which was never intended and for which it is not designed . |
| 15 | The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services . |
| 16 | The simplest answer to the question about what causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise is that it is a reflection of the rhythmic world in which the newborn child has been placed and to which it begins to respond . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was , she knew , thinking back to what the astrologer had said all that time ago in London , the blaze that had been ignited and over which she had no control . |
| 19 | The passages were not part of the ratio of the decision by which we are bound and with which I respectfully agree . |
| 20 | No doubt many , probably a majority , of the cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are due to infectious organisms , but there remains a hard core of cases from which no pathogenic germs can be isolated and for which it is just conceivable that antibiotic treatment may not be the best therapy . |
| 21 | Having accomplished this , she had managed to consign the memory of her unnamed son to a Wednesday ( the day on which he had been born and on which he had been slaughtered ) in August , annually , on Møn . |
| 22 | And I am convinced — or rather , I have been convinced — that this felicity is due to the influence of the place in which they were born and in which they have lived all their lives … ’ |
| 23 | The cultural framework in which we have been raised and within which we have been taught to operate provides both security and significance within its frontiers . |
| 24 | Legislation in the nineteenth-century Russian Empire looks like a series of royal fiats , but the laws whch freed the serfs emerged from a process which the tsar barely understood and over which he had only partial control . |
| 25 | That is why schools increasingly take immense amounts of classroom time to work their way through rule systems with children , so that the end result is a matter of agreement , towards which everyone has contributed and on which everyone has agreed . |
| 26 | He had quite forgotten it , or , rather , it had sunk back to the dark , subterranean level from which it had sprung and on which he really did believe his father might kill him some day . |
| 27 | He was a prophet in the wilderness , perhaps , but one whom the wilderness had entered and upon which he depended for his terrible denunciations . |
| 28 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 29 | I ask them to visit some of the communities that I represent , from which industry has disappeared and in which it is not only the person approaching pensionable age who is unemployed and in receipt of social security benefit , but the caring young people in the family who want to do the best for their relatives . |
| 30 | 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 . |