Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly afterwards PW held a meeting with the BCCI directors during which it gave them a comprehensive account of the frauds and malpractices . |
| 2 | The area of my life for which you believed yourself a candidate is being taken care of quite adequately at the moment . |
| 3 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 4 | They demanded an even more radical approach to delinquency that would tackle not the individual offender but the wider deprivation and social injustice of which they considered him the product . |
| 5 | They put the money into a bank account , out of which they pay themselves a monthly salary . |
| 6 | The president of the Wolverhampton chamber of commerce delivered precisely the same speech as the one of which he sent me a copy beforehand and I have it here . |
| 7 | ‘ The omnipotence of the House of Commons , ’ he wrote , ‘ is revolution itself and death to the true old English constitution ’ — of which he fancied himself the best judge . |
| 8 | His leisure time , which was ample , was spent mainly in aesthetic contemplation of the moral and social degeneration of which he considered himself a part , if apart . |
| 9 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 10 | One can imagine a university student writing two letters — one to his parents and the other to his best friend — in which he said what the rag dance last Saturday had been like . |
| 11 | Luke 's mouth pleasured while it dominated , and his hands roaming insolently about her body were creating havoc , the skilled , confident caresses to which he subjected her a bold proclamation of ownership . |