Example sentences of "which in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 2 | Lord Robertson is a large man with a Morningside accent and a florid face which in court he used continually to rub with his hand . |
| 3 | No amount of reflection on first principles will stop a Christian from assuming that the morality demanded of women , which in Islam he judges to be imposed by the physically stronger sex in its own interests , is in his own religion true to the equality of the sexes before God ; not until women become conscious of and vocal about their own interests does he appreciate that the difference from Islam has from the very first been only one of degree . |
| 4 | Why would a political assembly want to abdicate from the full sovereignty which in principle it possesses , and set limits on its own future actions ? |
| 5 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 6 | I welcome the view of the hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) that Le Pen — a person whose only claim to fame is the manner in which in France he has agitated to poison race relations and incite hatred — is completely unwelcome in Britain and should not have been allowed in . |
| 7 | Like Loch Hourn , which in configuration it resembles closely , Loch Nevis is an inlet of the Sound of Sleat , initially wide but becoming narrow as it thrusts through the hills . |
| 8 | after Assisted Areas ( with which in part they coincided ) , in the grant of industrial development certificates , and would thus take precedence over the new towns . |
| 9 | On the contrary , recent cultural trends have encouraged masculinity and achievement outside the home in women , notwithstanding the vogue for permissiveness ( of which in reality it is a part ) . |
| 10 | Asked to name sources of credit out of the blue , people might well simply leave out or forget about some sources which in practice they could use , if they were offered that type of credit when they were buying . |
| 11 | By first establishing a formal highpoint , the critics are then able to look down upon the content , ‘ objectively ’ pointing out the division which they claim exists ( which in fact they have helped to construct ) between the two . |
| 12 | Their relations and old schoolfriends would tell them they had stepped out of their class , which in fact they had . |
| 13 | In the example given , if prices were to fall in the discount market , and the yield rise , then the process of arbitrage would ensure new rates in the parallel market , should market participants not immediately adjust prices ( which in fact they will ) . |
| 14 | To do so we would require knowledge which in fact we lack . |
| 15 | We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening . |
| 16 | Erm Martin offered you a drink which in fact you quite rightly I think refused at that stage . |
| 17 | Where Hornblower 's cough is designed to give him time to avoid embarrassment or to get out of a tight corner , Septimus puts on his spectacles , which in fact he only needs for reading , when he needs time to think of a way out of a difficulty or the chance to seem more confident than he really is . |
| 18 | It became apparent that Edward could win nothing if he persisted against Stratford and refused reforms ; in May , therefore , he adjourned the archbishop 's trial to a committee of peers ( which in fact he never convened ) and assented to the reforming statutes . |
| 19 | It was decided that before going up to Oxford , which in fact he never did , he should spend time with a German family in Mecklenburg and three months studying at the university in Jena , where he attended lectures on philosophy and political economy and made many close friends among German Jews . |
| 20 | Somehow this all happened in the darkened room in which in fact I lay asleep . |
| 21 | It was in consequence of that wish that Jennie Lee asked me if I would chair a committee on London Orchestras , which in fact I did , and whose findings I describe later . |
| 22 | This view is based upon a phrase which the Empress is supposed to have uttered ‘ It 's my pretty little war ’ , which in fact she never pronounced and which indeed was a newspaper invention appearing only in 1874 . |
| 23 | Mrs. Steed 's evidence was not , however , that she had thought she was signing a document of some different character from that which in fact she had signed . |
| 24 | Nor did she dare ask for privacy , because to do so would look as if she had something to hide — which in fact she did . |
| 25 | Ramsey went out of his years at school with a sense of contentment which in retrospect he knew to be a veneer . |
| 26 | In this respect , a document purporting to be a sale of hire purchase agreements was construed by Eve J at first instance in Re George Inglefield [ 1933 ] Ch 1 , as a charge on book debts whereas , in the Court of Appeal ( at p27 ) , it was held to be a sale : " [ There is ] no reason whatever for attempting to drag the transaction within the operation of the section [ s 395 of the Companies Act 1985 ] by calling it something which in truth it is not . " |
| 27 | As to Rutland , if at first glance its gentry look significantly less prosperous than similar men in other Midland and southern counties , the impression may well be a by-product of the very completeness of the survey , resulting in virtually everyone answering the description being accounted for , whereas with Suffolk and Sussex in particular the subsidy returns , which provide the sole evidence , highlight gentlemen whose goods exceeded their lands in value , and on which in consequence they were taxed . |