Example sentences of "which [pron] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , not too bad really , it 's erm I can only describe it has having erm a huge hangover , which erm which I 'm used to anyway , so erm you know I 'm obviously a bit disappointed with the way things went , but erm you know that 's party of Rugby . |
| 2 | No excitement in my life has ever quite equalled the tense fifteen minutes during which I was connected to that fish . |
| 3 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 4 | The version with which I was introduced to my housemaster role in the prison service by an experienced principal officer was ‘ One thing more difficult than a busy Borstal boy is an idle Borstal boy . ’ |
| 5 | To whatever degree you have placed the responsibility for your feelings of love and wholeness on someone else , is the degree to which you are bound to disappointment . |
| 6 | Lodgings/digs These are generally unpopular with most students because of cost , set meal times and general restrictions — such as the number of baths allowed — and the times by which you are expected to be home and in bed ! |
| 7 | Another recipe relied on lily of the valley , lard and a cup of old wine , which you were advised to ‘ pound together in the manner which thou mightest work a plaister , and lay to the hand ’ . |
| 8 | The Other Woman has a category to herself in Silhouette 's construction of the necessary elements of the romance novel , an indication of the extent to which she is considered to be an essential ingredient : ‘ The Other Woman Usually means over sophisticated , well groomed . |
| 9 | Although Joan mostly worked as a Spool Setter , she became an Axminster Winding Instructor for a period during which she was sent to a subsidiary company in Holland ( Bergos Stoddard ) for a number of weeks . |
| 10 | The market is the mechanism through which we 're forced to be competitive . |
| 11 | Even the 1812 's ‘ digitally recorded canons [ sic ] [ ! ] ’ , due to which we are cautioned to ‘ use extreme care in selecting playback volume ’ , fail to get the adrenalin flowing . |
| 12 | Please also remember that Ash Wednesday , which is this Wednesday , is one of the only two days a year on which we are asked to fast and to abstain from eating meat . |
| 13 | There the register-keeper was well and truly confused , since he not only referred to children of ‘ Charles William Titford , Linen Draper , Bishopsgate Street ’ — a nomenclature which we are used to by now — but also made an error when it came to wife Anne 's name — she appears as ‘ Mary ’ . |
| 14 | They do not fit the conventional academic system in which there is seen to be little alternative provision for their needs , so they opt out altogether from involvement in school and wait resentfully for their official release at 16 . |
| 15 | This can be thought of as an investment — an expenditure today for which there is hoped to be a return in future years in the form of a lowering in the costs of production ( for a process invention ) . |
| 16 | Although there are two offences , murder and manslaughter , the latter includes two distinct varieties : ‘ voluntary ’ manslaughter ( killings which would be murder but for the existence of defined extenuating circumstances ) ; and ‘ involuntary ’ manslaughter ( killings for which there is no need to prove any awareness of the risk of death being caused , but for which there is thought to be sufficient fault to justify criminal liability ) . |
| 17 | Letters are not themselves sounds : they represent the sounds of the spoken language , of which there are considered to be about 44 in standard English . |
| 18 | The extent to which they are felt to be a big deal for the pupils will mirror the extent to which they are felt to be a big deal by their teachers . |
| 19 | The extent to which they are felt to be a big deal for the pupils will mirror the extent to which they are felt to be a big deal by their teachers . |
| 20 | These are compiled from the human-readable form in which they are written to an internal form , allowing Prolog unification to be used as the mechanism for passing information and rule application in each of morphology , parsing , interpretation , and selection filtering . |
| 21 | At Mount Stewart in County Down Lady Londonderry let rip with an amazing ensemble of whimsical statues but they avoid seeming a jumble by the purposeful way in which they are related to the whole garden design . |
| 22 | Buyers often attempt to include express warranties stating that goods will be suitable for the purpose for which they are intended to be used by the buyer , or suitable for the purpose for which they are ordinarily or generally used . |
| 23 | Under the present regime , where differential pricing is forbidden , big tied agents like the Halifax , Nationwide and Leeds Permanent — taking advantage of the fact that they are powerful distribution channels with ‘ hot client bases ’ — have pushed up the commissions they receive from the life offices to which they are tied to huge levels . |
| 24 | Perhaps more interesting than the individual entries is the way in which they are cross-referenced to so many other entries in the encyclopedia . |
| 25 | Thirdly , Lyons points out that if one thinks of anaphora as reference to entities already established in the domain of discourse , then the ways in which they are referred to in anaphoric reference commonly make use of the order in which they were introduced by the discourse itself . |
| 26 | There is a one-day familiarisation course during which they are introduced to their supervisors , other staff members and postgraduates already on the course . |
| 27 | " Reason " , Hilton defines as the faculty by which things are understood — the process by which they are brought to conscious recognition and so can be , metaphorically , " seen " , like the wisdom of God the Father , — Christ . |
| 28 | The offer price of units ( the price at which they are sold to investors ) and the bid price ( the price at which they are bought by investors ) are worked out day-to-day , and are determined by the daily market value of the net assets of the trust . |
| 29 | Few general texts , but most monographs , use footnotes-either at the bottom of the page or at the back of the chapter/book — The validity of historians ' views are largely determined by the evidence upon which they are claimed to be based . |
| 30 | The matter is further complicated by the fact that the disclosure letter will almost always say the disclosures are made by reference to the warranty to which they are thought to be most applicable , but they also apply to all warranties . |