Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forest drive with magnificent views of the volcanic ring of hills of which Slieve Gullion forms a part . |
| 2 | In Wales ( under Edward I ) , in Scotland ( under the first three Edwards ) and in France ( from Edward I to Henry VI ) England fought a succession of wars in which she was , in fact , the aggressor . |
| 3 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 4 | Their working day is a succession of lessons for which they have either prepared something interesting , dug out last year 's notes , decided to just do the next bit in ‘ the book ’ , or are unprepared . |
| 5 | The succession of cells along which archival DNA travels is called the germ line . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No fewer than five police officers have lost their lives in the past decade as a result of attacks in which knives have been used . |
| 9 | Looking back on his achievements in the 21-months since he took Ministerial office , the Tory candidate said he wanted to complete the programme of reforms with which he had been involved . |
| 10 | There can be no right or wrong , true or false , for the primary stock of concepts from which thinking starts ; they reflect classifications of the similar and the different guided by past needs , and the inherited categories prove themselves useful or misleading in the course of putting them to service . |
| 11 | Coun Chris Foote Wood said he believed officers working for local authorities with local knowledge should continue to inspect red meat and poultry and the hygiene of premises in which animals are slaughtered . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the other hand , it has been argued that the burning of genealogies to which Julius Africanus refers was perpetrated not by Herod , but by the Romans after the revolt of A.D. 66 . |
| 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 | Should the local planning authority determine that the proposals do constitute or involve development , it has to inform the applicant of grounds on which it has reached this decision and also his rights of appeal . |
| 16 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 17 | The queue began to form at 7 a.m. on 13th May , and , after 3 stressful hours of preparation , it was inspiring to hear the peal of bells with which Nancy Robinson traditionally and imaginatively opens the Sale |
| 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 | These men were responsible for the maintenance of places for which they acted and for ensuring that worship was conducted in accordance with the tenets of the bodies to which they belonged . |
| 20 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 21 | Always start with the victim and try to trace around him the web of relationships in which he was involved . |
| 22 | The research showed there to be virtually no knowledge among arts projects personnel of available strategies for guiding schools in staff development except for a recognition of criteria by which to identify schools ready for development ( Shipman 's concept of a ‘ healthy school ’ in Slater 1985 ; viz. a recognition of the need for change by the school staff , a supportive headteacher , the active involvement of a senior member of staff , and a professionally interactive staff ) . |
| 23 | Such ideas would seem to contradict the lateral persistence of facies about which so much fuss was made in Chapter 1 . |
| 24 | The spectrum of questions for which answers were sought took in everything from specifics , like ‘ Are dialogue sequences less compelling than action scenes ? ’ to abstracts querying the very suspension of disbelief principle thought essential to any form of drama viewing — especially children 's viewing . |
| 25 | Initially people , including health professionals , were slow in recognising the broad spectrum of ways in which AIDS can affect individuals , families and societies . |
| 26 | rational behaviour on the part of investors in which they prefer more wealth to less and are indifferent to whether an increment to their wealth takes the form of an unrealized capital gain or a cash dividend payment . |
| 27 | It is seldom pointed out that the use of verbal insults is almost always an integral part of incidents in which women are physically and sexually assaulted . |
| 28 | In investigations of this type , it is unlikely to be acceptable for children to be subjected to endoscopy as a part of studies in which a parent is the index case . |
| 29 | Other recent flotations might just represent companies ' taking advantage of windows through which to de-gear , rather than waiting for the exits that offer the optimum long-term return . |
| 30 | Not that this stops the tragic artist from coaxing us into awareness of the normally intolerable , taking advantage of ways in which things terrible in experience become agreeable in imagination . |