Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] could [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 2 | But Phoenician traders were notorious for their shady dealings around the Mediterranean and if there was a precious commodity for which they could find a ready market , nothing could stop them . |
| 3 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 4 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 5 | From morning to dusk on all days except the Sabbath , he was out in the marketplace among the other merchants trading in any commodity with which he could make a profit , including money itself . |
| 6 | It does nothing to promote an honest public debate , in which we could examine a wide range of factors — including the present uses and abuses of VAT by the Government and many others — and then arrive at some morally-decent decision . |
| 7 | Now she was more Maman 's maid , and mender of everything in the house in which she could discern a wear or a tear . |
| 8 | As well as investigating lists and potential backers , consider if there are way in which you could instigate a residency which would match your particular skills and expectations to the benefits , tangible or otherwise , for a particular firm or organisation . |
| 9 | Johnson , however , fully aware of the likely number of biographers he might attract before and after his death , found here a biography in which he could have a say , thus not only securing his immortality , but controlling it . |
| 10 | There was no way in which he could turn a young man 's allegiance completely against his motherland in just three weeks . |
| 11 | His Attorney-General ( his third ! ) resigned in protest , and on 23 October the House of Representatives began to consider the impeachment of the President — he only constitutional way in which it could remove a President considered unfit for office . |
| 12 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 13 | I have never read of any firm in Britain from which I could purchase a light box . |
| 14 | I have never read of any firm in Britain from which I could purchase a light box . |
| 15 | She was almost on top of the river before she realised that this was where the path was leading , and here she found another seat from which she could see a boat or two plaiting lazy fans of rippling wake through the smooth water . |
| 16 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |
| 17 | Many commentators interpreted his decision to run for the council as a means of preserving his extensive political machine while also providing a platform within the city government from which he could launch a future mayoral bid . |
| 18 | He always required an underlying form from which he could then depart , just as he tended to use a literary " model " from which he could derive a manner and a tone . |
| 19 | Henry wondered where the brake cable was , what it looked like , whether it was the kind of thing to which you could take a saw . |
| 20 | We put in a new sink and Malcolm bought us a Baby Belling cooker , one electric ring on which we could heat a an of beans very , very slowly . |
| 21 | Therefore , the only basis on which we could have a property tax and valuation would be on a national banding system because that would be understandable and objective . |
| 22 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
| 23 | The king never turned up and the laird was left with paths on which he could hold a formula one race . |
| 24 | Laura had learned , from the antique dress in the window of Gwalia House , the pulling power of a loss leader and she was not above producing one sample dress , never intended for general distribution , for the press , always hungry for a fashion article around which they could build a story . |
| 25 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 26 | ‘ . The transformation of the industry would undoubtedly be both costly and painful but it was the only means by which it could ensure a future for itself . |