Example sentences of "of which [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the living cephalopods also have an ink sac which injects a smoky fluid into the water when the animal is threatened , under cover of which they can make their own jet-propelled escape . |
| 2 | Women have a natural link between the psyche and the physical , of which they can make valuable use . |
| 3 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 4 | The staff of Lothian Highways have many achievements of which they can feel proud . |
| 5 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 6 | The first of these concerns the attempt to construct a general theoretical framework in terms of which we can answer the ‘ limited ’ particular questions of the second . |
| 7 | The value of the ethological study of apes , monkeys and baboons is what it tells us about apes , monkeys and baboons ; only in very special circumstances , and in a very tentative way , should it be seen as a metaphorical alternative by means of which we can study man himself , as in a mirror . |
| 8 | It is the Spirit who takes the things of God and reveals them to us ( 1 Cor. 2:12 ) , and Paul can rightly say that the very capacity to respond in faith is a gift of God and no man-made attribute of which we can boast ( Eph. 2:8 ) . |
| 9 | We have discovered a connection , they will say , on the basis of which we can predict . |
| 10 | You will need hessian sacking , soft string ( called ‘ fillis ’ ) and thick ‘ tarred string ’ , both of which you can obtain from the garden sundries store . |
| 11 | The problem comes when you meet a horizontal nogging — the positions of which you can determine with a joist and batten detector . |
| 12 | This is an artificial lake , the tremendous retaining wall of which you can see up above you well before you arrive there , blocking off the valley . |
| 13 | For example , the Oxford Text Archive is a collection of computerised texts , each of which you can buy on floppy disc for the price of a printed copy . |
| 14 | Expansion , give him a little straw out of which he can make the bricks , have a couple of good stories and so on . |
| 15 | Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet . |
| 16 | With the exception of Blitzer and Block Breaker , both of which I can do without , this is a decent little time wasting package . |
| 17 | We had visiting lecturers delivering a variety of information , none of which I can recall . |
| 18 | Fleet standard is well illustrated with many photographs of the Dennis vehicles operated on local deliveries together with examples of the AFC flats and tankers used on long distance services when these were operated by Whitbread of which I can recall observing on their journey between London and the depots at Ashton-Under-Lyne and Stockport . |
| 19 | 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 . |