Example sentences of "[prep] which it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talk about decisions as if there was always a point in time before which the decision was not made arid after which it has been made . |
| 2 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 3 | Here accountability is clearly defined , the routes and paths through which it flows are easily discerned , often articulated and condition the nature , state and integrity of the whole enterprise . |
| 4 | Past history is thus significant as the occasion by which we have been enabled to see what otherwise we might have failed to grasp ; but the real content of the revelation is in principle detachable from the particular history through which it has been manifested . |
| 5 | But the agency does have the job of approving materials and devices ( as well as drugs ) intended for the treatment of disease , and way back in the late 1960s it rightly concluded that none of the artificial hearts available was fit for the task for which it had been designed . |
| 6 | Inevitably , government help undermined the bank 's ability to do the job for which it had been established , and in 1897 the Poles opened the new Land Purchase Bank . |
| 7 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 8 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 9 | The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative . |
| 10 | It had been particularly disastrous in Germany and Britain , the countries for which it had been designed . |
| 11 | The National Front , also , has failed to make the breakthrough for which it had been hoping . |
| 12 | The actual amount disbursed under the scheme in the two years for which it ran was £17 million , not £24 million . |
| 13 | The right to a trade mark can be assigned only in connection with the goodwill of the business concerned in the goods for which it has been registered , and comes to an end with that goodwill . |
| 14 | The total number of persons using the accommodation shall not exceed the number for which it has been booked ; |
| 15 | Instead of the bureaucracy continuing to serve the main purpose for which it has been set up there is an obsession with procedure , because procedure has to serve as the guideline in the absence of anything else . |
| 16 | Much must also depend on the , as yet unknown , date of the constitution of the civitas Carvetiorum , for which it has been claimed that Carlisle acted as a capital . |
| 17 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 18 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |
| 19 | The Nikola Petkov Bulgarian Agrarian Party ( BZNS ) campaigned separately from the UDF , of which it had been a partner in the 1990 elections . |
| 20 | The review may be evaluated generally by how effectively and efficiently it met the objectives set out in Document 1 , on the basis of which it had been negotiated . |
| 21 | In working towards the growth of a total quality culture it seeks to impact on all aspects of Scottish life , encompassing corporate responsibility and individual quality awareness both of which it believes are fundamental to long-term Scottish success . |
| 22 | From detailed descriptions of elements out of which it has been made . |
| 23 | This is the case of Austria , for instance , of which it has been said that ‘ banished to insignificant social roles , Austrian federalism has taken on something of a folklore quality ’ . |
| 24 | Gould ) , and the House of Lords ( of which it has been asked whether we can continue to afford it as a court of ultimate resort in criminal law , a question prompted less by economics than by an expositor 's desire for consistency ) . |
| 25 | " Off sale licence " which authorises the sale of liquor for consumption off the premises in respect of which it has been granted only . |
| 26 | This requires a viewer to ‘ unpack ’ the image and reconstitute the real-life situation out of which it has been found . |
| 27 | This is partly because of a number of important changes that have taken place in the scale of the protest , the targets against which it has been directed , and the tactics that have been employed , but particularly because of some fundamental changes in the broader political social and economic context in which the protest is now taking place . |
| 28 | He told delegates : ‘ The Company 's relationship with the trade unions with which it negotiates is healthy and constructive . |
| 29 | Wimpy International Ltd v Warland [ 1988 ] STC 149 had determined that the facts to be considered were : whether an item appeared visually to retain a separate identity ; the degree of permanence with which it had been attached ; the incompleteness of the structure without it ; and the extent to which it was intended to be permanent . |
| 30 | The speed and efficiency with which it had been delivered was impressive , and suggested strongly that Kirov had also worked largely upon intuition . |