Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [prep] which the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Disclosure Letter is likely to contain a great deal of information on which the Purchaser will rely . |
| 2 | Each is a ring of cuticle into which the basal Segment of the antennae of its side is inserted . |
| 3 | It may be that a gene 's effects , as a matter of fact , turn out to be confined to the succession of bodies in which the gene sits . |
| 4 | This soil life , in proper balance , constitutes the digestive metabolism of plants through which the raw mineral and organic nutrients are combined into soluble , ‘ available ’ forms . |
| 5 | That figure represents both the real value , and what was then the nominal value also , of the sum of money for the loss of use of which the plaintiff is to be compensated by interest . |
| 6 | ‘ These are vital foundations for building the G-7 's programme of action to which the Government is committed . |
| 7 | Accepting that a group of countries should proceed to a political or monetary union would be to accept the creation of a Greater European Superstate on the continent of Europe over which the non participants would have minimal control and which would be dominated by Germany . |
| 8 | The problem is not length as such but the infrequency and brevity of meetings at which the scientific work is conducted , a point to which I shall return towards the end of this paper . |
| 9 | What … has never taken place is an epistemological critique at the most fundamental level of the connection between the development of a historicism which has expanded and developed enough to include antithetical attitudes such as ideologies of Western imperialism and critiques of imperialism on the one hand , and on the other , the actual practice of imperialism by which the accumulation of territories and population , the control of economies , and the incorporation and homogenisation of histories are maintained . |
| 10 | The privet hen had been a joke ever since they moved in ; a piece of topiary of which the house 's previous owner had been inordinately proud . |
| 11 | It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion . |
| 12 | The boy or girl was not ‘ a blank piece of paper on which the teacher should write ’ , and it was in this liberal spirit that he condemned drill : ‘ Military drill fashions him to an approved standard as part of the machine ; whereas the aim of Scouting is to develop his personal character and initiative . ’ |
| 13 | It appeared very much as if the judicial system had bent itself to the needs of the politicians and that , in particular , the principles of the rule of law to which the NIRC earlier paid such respect had been sacrificed to the expediency of the political and economic situation . |
| 14 | The most famous in Islay must be those larger islands in Loch Finlaggan which contained a chapel and a complex of buildings from which the Lords of the Isles ruled their kingdom , the main island being joined to the smaller Council Isle . |
| 15 | Mark on it the width of plank from which the brackets will be cut . |
| 16 | Before the whites came , he went on , no one in Australia was landless , since everyone inherited , as his or her private property , a stretch of the Ancestor 's song and the stretch of country over which the song passed . |
| 17 | seaside resort on the north-east coast of Kent to which the Tuggs family went on holiday . |
| 18 | Rickford attacked what he described as the hysteria of the opposition to BT : the fear is that the US is being ‘ opened up to a conspiracy of foreigners against which the US needs to defend itself . ’ |
| 19 | Although a problem is not an invitation to launch out into a general disquisition on the department of law on which the problem is set , it is important in working out the problem to state all the rules of law that are really relevant to it . |
| 20 | Hawes , it seems , is from the old Norse word hals meaning neck , in this case a neck of land on which the town stands . |
| 21 | The ratio of Nat Bell , that no evidence does not constitute a jurisdictional error , was simply the natural consequence of a conception of jurisdiction under which the courts would not reassess the meaning ascribed to the constituent elements of jurisdiction . |
| 22 | This tradition tends to focus upon mass consumption as the instrument of capital for which the individual subject is created as consumer , and provides important critical accounts of the mechanisms by which producers construct their markets ( e.g. Haug 1986 ) . |
| 23 | This debate has centred on the two views of bureaucracy found in the writings of Marx himself , one presenting it as an instrument by which the dominant class protects its interests , the other as an instrument of power through which the state is able to rise above and regulate class conflict with a measure of autonomy from the dominant class . |
| 24 | When we watch the news it is sometimes possible.for a moment to catch the sheer weight of pain under which the world groans . |
| 25 | Often it will be worded so as to constitute a contract of indemnity under which the dealer must make good any loss suffered by the finance company in the event of the customer defaulting on his payments or terminating his agreement . |
| 26 | Section 17(3) of the Act permits secondary action if ( a ) the purpose or principal purpose of the secondary action was directly to prevent or disrupt the supply during the dispute of goods or services between an employer who is a party to the dispute ( here the ship owners ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action relates ( here the port authorities ) ; and ( b ) the secondary action was likely to achieve that purpose . |
| 27 | ‘ ( a ) the purpose or principal purpose of the secondary action was directly to prevent or disrupt the supply during the dispute of goods or services between an employer who is a party to the dispute and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action relates ; and ( b ) the secondary action ( together with any corresponding action relating to other contracts of employment with the same employer ) was likely to achieve that purpose . ’ |
| 28 | Merkur Island were not parties to any contract for the supply of towage services , so it was not possible to say that the purpose of the action was to prevent the supply of services between an employer who was party to the dispute ( Merkur Island ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action related ( the tug owners ) . |
| 29 | The first of these is a simple contract of sale to which the auctioneer is no party . |
| 30 | This is the direction of time in which the universe is expanding rather than contracting . |