Example sentences of "which [pers pn] be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The myriads of Mafia to which I am linked by marriage had been alerted . |
| 2 | There was an element of criticism there of which I was informed by the Chief Whip and the Lord Chancellor , just as there was an element of criticism of Hailsham , and it seemed quite possible that the Whips would prefer a compromise candidate . |
| 3 | JULIA Roberts ' latest film is Joseph Reuben 's Sleeping With The Enemy , in which she is terrorised by a jealous , violent husband ( Patrick Bergen ) . |
| 4 | Having opened with an 83 , Moodie yesterday returned a 78 in which she was cheered by the news from home that she had been awarded a golf scholarship at the University of Hawaii . |
| 5 | Her previous recording with Sir Charles Groves featured Crusell 's Second Concerto , in which she was partnered by the English Chamber Orchestra , and it became evident from our conversation that she had been especially happy to work with Sir Charles once again , in this new recording of English music for clarinet and orchestra . |
| 6 | Mrs Mandela , self-styled ‘ mother of the nation ’ , pointedly omitted to mention her position on the ANC 's National Executive Committee , the top policy-making body , to which she was appointed by a ballot among members . |
| 7 | She also became anorexic later — a state from which she was rescued by an early marriage at the age of sixteen . |
| 8 | What was significant was the awe in which she was held by her two senior colleagues , but not so by Mr Straw . |
| 9 | As a three-year-old she won the Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket before coasting home by three lengths in the One Thousand Guineas , after which she was sold by owner-breeder Captain Marcos Lemos to Sheikh Mohammed . |
| 10 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 11 | When we ascribe a quality to an object we intend to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects . |
| 12 | We reach the Welsh border in five hours , but soon lose our way and travel thirty miles in the wrong direction , during which we are stopped by the Welsh police . |
| 13 | There are so many ways in which we are conditioned by people or events that impinged on our early lives . |
| 14 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 15 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 16 | The trial of Galileo , of which we were reminded by your excellent article ( 7 April , p 25 ) , clearly is of paramount significance in several areas of human development . |
| 17 | " In concluding this Report the Undersigned have the greatest pleasure in bearing testimony to the zeal and ability of Mr. Gurney , in which they are joined by the Visitors who attended the Examination . |
| 18 | Their programme for tonight 's ‘ Music at Ten ’ recital , in which they are joined by Ruth Zagni ( cello ) , comprises the last movement from Janacek 's ‘ Intimate Letters ’ Quartet and Schubert 's Quintet in C major Op 163 . |
| 19 | Since extracodes are defined by the way in which they are handled by the supervisor , we could make the supervisor react in an " extracode " fashion to any unallocated operation code . |
| 20 | Geologically the Desertas are similar in formation to the volcanic rocks of the Machico area ( post-Pliocene ) from which they are separated by a channel 50–100m deep . |
| 21 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 22 | This method has been used to gain consent from general practitioners for research in which they are consulted by surrogate patients . |
| 23 | These will determine : * the status and authority of senior buyers ; * the degree to which they are consulted by influencers and decision-makers ; * the degree to which they are actually involved in decision making . |
| 24 | The young larvae , hatching from the queen 's eggs are potentially of both sexes , but the queen 's pheromones with which they are fed by the workers inhibit their development and they remain sterile , wingless and blind . |
| 25 | Chaucer 's art of ambiguity in presenting his Canterbury pilgrims balances the levels at which they are bonded by the literal and figurative goals of their journey and stereotyped by their social functions , with an awareness of an individual reality which can not be adequately contained by either . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Pupils should encounter an environment in which they are surrounded by books and other reading material presented in an attractive and inviting way . |
| 28 | They begin , albeit unwittingly , in the home , but the way in which they are perpetuated by educational policy and practice shows widespread ignorance of systems theory ( Corker , 1990 ) . |
| 29 | In some countries ( Israel , Portugal and Spain ) seats are filled by candidates according to the order in which they are nominated by the party . |
| 30 | A general reading of the book encourages the suspicion that the principle of verification is being used , not simply to exclude some clear and obvious errors , but to cut out swathes of philosophical tradition that have never been guilty of the crude misconceptions of which they are accused by Ayer . |