Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [prep] which [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why it is vital always to have an advocatus diaboli , another mind with you with which to argue , and another pair of eyes with which to observe , to ensure a constant dialogue . |
| 2 | The path was narrow and rough with tussocky grass and she trod carefully , eyes straining ahead to where the path ended abruptly at the outer limits of the aerodrome , blocked by a high steel-mesh fence — a cruel fence to keep lovers apart — and no one else had discovered the break in it through which Rob always came . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union , these critics argue , was uninterested in Republican victory and unwilling to provide sufficient resources to make it possible ; to make matters worse , the anti-revolutionary policies and generally repressive conduct of the Communists , by robbing much of the population within Republican Spain of anything for which to fight , brought about massive demoralization and weakened rather than strengthened the bases of the anti-fascist struggle . |
| 4 | Additionally , previously mentioned problems with the model of boards of non-executives in the private sector means that incomers will not bring consistent or even very clear expectations with them on which to build . |
| 5 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 6 | You ca n't measure any response without something against which to measure it . |
| 7 | She belonged to that great majority of intelligent human beings who think of a book as something with which to beguile the hours of solitude of an evening . |
| 8 | In addition , Chamberlain was not willing to join the Government without Birkenhead , and Birkenhead was strongly disapproved of by the Conservative rank and file , both in the House and in the country , and particularly by those somewhat prim and self-righteous parts of it in which lay Baldwin 's greatest strength . |
| 9 | I consider that the judge did not have the material before him on which to find that there was a grave risk that the child would be placed in an intolerable situation if the court were to order his return to Canada . |
| 10 | This cultural expression is used both as a safety-value of light , communal entertainment in situations which might otherwise be tense , boring and/or tedious , and also as a tool of protest in itself with which to unify and cement the groups ' sense of identity and purpose . |