Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 28 , several thousand supporters of Touré 's regime staged a pro-democracy march through Bamako during which , according to Radio France Internationale , calls were made for information on the " barons of the old regime " . |
| 2 | The explosions were attributed to the Basque separatist group Euzkadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA ) , as were three others in Spain during July in which three people were killed and 20 injured . |
| 3 | In awareness of everything relevant to the issue ( = everything which would spontaneously move me one way or the other ) , I find myself moved towards X , overlooking something relevant I find myself moved towards Y. In which direction shall I let myself be moved ? |
| 4 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 5 | Rubino claimed that the verdict projected the USA in the role of " world policeman " , capable of " imposing its will upon so-called independent sovereign nations " , a reference to the December 1989 US military invasion of Panama during which Noriega was seized before being flown to the USA [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 6 | The immediate cause was an Israeli reprisal raid in October 1953 on the village of Qibya in which 66 villagers were killed . |
| 7 | From its lofty position one can see the parish of his birth , the route by which his mother took him to Ayr , the town of Ayr in which he ran errands as a boy , the harbour from which he went off to sea , and all of the land that was his estate of Orangefield . |
| 8 | In this month 's issue , by way of illustration , The Face conducts an interview with Bono of U2 in which the rock star strips naked in the middle of a restaurant , while other members of the band are photographed in drag . |
| 9 | To the world at large , the Sultanate of Oman attracts attention for its strategic position guarding the Straits of Hormuz through which passes fifty per cent of the world 's oil supplies . |
| 10 | Dissenting preacher , head of the Emmanuel Chapel of Dorking of which Stiggins is ‘ deputy-shepherd ’ . |
| 11 | A State is bound by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party if : ( a ) the parties … intended that the provision in question should be the means of creating a legal obligation binding upon that particular State or class of States to which it belongs ; and ( b ) that State has expressly or impliedly consented to the provision . |
| 12 | A [ third ] State is entitled to invoke a right … when ( a ) the parties … intended that the provision in question should create an actual right upon which that particular State , or a class of States to which it belongs , could rely ; and ( b ) the right has not been rejected , either expressly or impliedly by that State . |
| 13 | The village of Weston in which Leapor would have lived for some time was six miles north of Brackley . |
| 14 | Strichen lies a little way down from the left shoulder of Scotland along which they travelled to reach Inverness . |
| 15 | Here politics and local interest coincided , for the father of the young officer was an important landowner in the area of Scotland in which the Elphinstone interest was being upheld by Lord Keith , and indeed , before acquiring his peerage , Lord Dundas had represented Stirlingshire in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | In 1759 the French were known to be preparing an invasion of Scotland in which French forces would sail and rouse any remaining Stuart rebels . |
| 17 | The apparent concentration of research effort in some well-favoured areas is justified by the intrinsic geological interest of these areas , but the large areas of Scotland in which no university-supported research has been undertaken must call for some explanation . |
| 18 | This fund is the government 's account at the Bank of England into which tax revenue and other receipts are paid , and from which the majority of the government 's sterling expenditure is financed . |
| 19 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 20 | ( a ) Banker to banks and other financial institutions — every commercial bank has an account with the Bank of England in which ‘ operational deposits ’ are kept in order to settle interbank debts from the cheque clearing system , and for payment of funds due to the government ( and , conversely , funds paid by the government to the banks ) . |
| 21 | A champion of Catholic educational interests , he served on the senate of the Royal University of Ireland ( 1883–4 ) , the National Education Board ( 1895–1901 ) , and the senate of the National University of Ireland of which , in 1908 , he became the first chancellor . |
| 22 | Gladstone was dogged by the problems of Ireland to which his sense of duty drew him . |
| 23 | An interesting example is the Count of Nordland who is the Prince of Marienburg from which the ruling Burgomeisters have forbidden him to return upon pain of death , Marienburg having seceded from the Empire . |
| 24 | Although he did not underestimate the dangers of insurgent Communism , and considered it pathetic that the Soviet leaders should have as their strict aim the overtaking of the Capitalist states , he still felt that something might come out of Russia from which all might benefit . |
| 25 | Folded into the page of Vico on which the passage appeared was a bill for candles on the back of which Ash had written : ‘ The individual appears for an instant , joins the community of thought , modifies it and dies ; but the species , that dies not , reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence . ’ |
| 26 | With the exception of the higher rate of SSP to which I have already referred , this has been applied to all the relevant main benefits rates — notably retirement pensions , war pensions , widows ' pensions , invalidity benefit , severe disablement allowance , the disability living allowance rates equivalent to the present mobility and attendance allowances , invalid care allowance , industrial injuries benefits , and the national insurance benefits for unemployment , sickness and maternity . |
| 27 | In 1617 the sculptor Nicholas Stone ‘ … mad a pector lieng on a grav ston of gre marbell for Mr Corell of Hatfield for which I had £20 ’ . |
| 28 | Could I also say that Mr as perhaps inadvertently misguided us , there 's a hundred and forty two people work for L B A. I have seen the letters from the Chief Executive of L B A , Mr , to the Chief Executive of Hatfield in which he categorically states , people will be redeployed where possible within . |
| 29 | Once he had acquired supreme power he created a House of Commons to which Scotland and Ireland elected members , though he ignored a request from Barbados for representation . |
| 30 | Clearly , one aim is to ensure the election of a Parliament the House of Commons of which is of an efficient size , and the Members of which are elected in such a way that the vote of one elector is worth the same as another , neither more nor less . |