Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] which [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive . |
| 2 | The problem is exacerbated by the fact that consumers pay only about 15% of the world price , due to huge government subsidies , the reduction of which would be politically delicate . |
| 3 | This is of course why we , we are proposing the trial in which would er give us an end performance grass cutting contract but we do n't want to do that right across the county because of the projected cost , until we know whether it would work . |
| 4 | This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities . |
| 5 | Unfortunately some of this work was done without a proper appreciation of the fact that the presence of tree growth , and the shade it gave , prevented or at least discouraged the growth of water weeds , the existence of which could form an even greater obstruction than much of the tree growth . |
| 6 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 7 | We have a pair of tickets to give away ( normal price £50 each ) for the gala , plus special entry into the raffle , the winner of which will be announced on the night . |
| 8 | Short now trails 2–1 in the best of 10 match , the winner of which will be only one step away from a contest with world champion Gary Kasparov in 1993 . |
| 9 | Each Saturday there will be guided tours for two of the churches on the list , while on the first and third Saturday of every month a concert of classical music will be held in one of the churches , the takings from which will go towards restoring a work of art . |
| 10 | The next paragraph says that not only did Lord Young cut the published penalty clause for BAe from £650 million to £400 million as disclosed in the National Audit Office memorandum , but offered ‘ a private side-letter ’ waiving the penalty ‘ the text of which would be agreed with BAe in advance ’ . |
| 11 | The SEC and CFTC are fighting in the courts over which should regulate ‘ stock-basket ’ products , new financial instruments with a cash security and a futures contract . |
| 12 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |
| 13 | Appointments have been made to the Directorship of the School and to the newly established Peter Moores Professorship of Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first Academic Director of the School ) , and arrangements are being made to fill a Readership in Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first MBA Director ) . |
| 14 | Appointments have been made to the Directorship of the School and to the newly established Peter Moores Professorship of Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first Academic Director of the School ) , and arrangements are being made to fill a Readership in Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first MBA Director ) . |
| 15 | SAVE , supported by English Heritage , promptly submitted a powerful statement supporting the case for considering the statue as a fixture , the removal of which would profoundly affect the character of the listed building . |
| 16 | The over-simple assumptions widespread in the early 1980s that controlling the supply of money would in some way affect inflation ( the removal of which would introduce a period of substantial growth ) must be considered as being unsound . |
| 17 | The small bodies will have themselves accreted from even smaller bodies , the surfaces of which would carry traces of volatiles . |
| 18 | And , like fossil vertebrae , great columns reared up on every side , engineered to support vast weight , as if this whole edifice was situated many miles under the earth 's crust , the mass of which must somehow be borne . |
| 19 | An arms trade committee , the function of which would be to issue export licences to enterprises , was in preparation . |
| 20 | BGS staff on secondment prepared detailed geological maps of a reclamation area in the New Territories of Hong Kong and delineated the portion underlain by cavernous marble , the presence of which could affect development of the area . |
| 21 | This effect can not merely be explained by a conceivable depletion of TBP , because transcription of the classical pol III genes requires only a very low amount of TBP ( 6 ; and our own unpublished results ) , the presence of which could be verified by western-blot analysis of hTFIIIB and hTFIIIC containing fractions used for the assay ( our unpublished results ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Above all else the organization is viewed as a functionally integrated system , the operations of which can be understood with reference to the organizational goals which it is concerned to achieve ’ ( Burrell and Morgan 1979 , p. 205 ) . |
| 23 | I think it convenient in this judgment first to set out the salient facts of the case , as found by the judge , and then to consider the authorities from which must be extracted the principles of law and equity to be applied to the facts . |
| 24 | The programme provided for the discussion of various topics on the first two days , as told in the preceding chapter , and for Saturday , January 18 , it read : Proposal to form the National Deaf Association , on the American lines , the objects of which will be the protection , and the educational and social elevation of the deaf of the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | Strangely , few barns had been converted into craft or light industry centres , the rent on which would provide a permanent income for the farmer . |
| 26 | They dropped down into a chamber , the roof of which must have been seven or eight feet high , and where the air seemed quite fresh . |
| 27 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 28 | It has a trading character , the defamation of which may ruin it . |
| 29 | This phrase , the force of which may be lost on the present generation , had been made familiar by another Miss West , the buxom and sultry film-star ; the similarity of nomenclature was a coincidence of which Eliot took full advantage . |
| 30 | Introducing his Bill , Fisher voiced the opinion of liberal educationalists when he told the House that the schools would ‘ continue the general education ’ of the elementary level , and would give ‘ in addition vocational bias , the force of which will be graduated according to the age and occupation of the pupil ’ . |