Example sentences of "event which [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in Handsworth , the event which led to the rioting involved police-officers and a black person . |
| 2 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 3 | Yet yesterday 's report on the Clapham crash , confirming the picture which emerged throughout the Hidden inquiry , makes an event which seemed at the time totally unexpected look almost inevitable . |
| 4 | To use a single but important example , it is the difference between looking at the Great War as an event which centred around the policies and machinations of politicians and generals , or one which impinged upon the lives of ordinary people . |
| 5 | This tells us water temperatures were changing and we believe this represents a major almenial event which occurred in the year seventeen forty seven . |
| 6 | Puppies are unable to relate to an event which occurred in the past , so if you find that a place has been soiled overnight there is little point in scolding the puppy accordingly . |
| 7 | One visitor to India reported on just such an event which occurred in the Bombay presidency at the end of Victoria 's reign : |
| 8 | Such a sudden death , while engaged upon a religious war , and without the essential last sacrament , seemed almost to be an impossibility , an event which flew in the face of all religion , order and concepts of essential rightness . |
| 9 | The latter became InterCity property in 1986 , following a long and complicated sequence of events which began near the end of 1983 with the enforced withdrawal of the SLOA Pullman set , following the discovery that the potentially dangerous blue asbestos coach body insulation had become exposed . |
| 10 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 11 | Chamorro , 60 , was the widow of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro , whose murder in 1978 had sparked off events which led to the Sandinista revolution and the overthrow of the Somoza regime in July 1979 . |
| 12 | MPs today begin investigating the events which led to the Government dropping its golden share in Jaguar and the subsequent deal to sell the company to Ford . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |
| 14 | At the trial of the action the plaintiff conceded that the defendants could not have foreseen the precise chain of events which led to the explosion . |
| 15 | The events which led to the loss of HMS Impregnable make interesting reading and through research , we have been able to obtain a transcript of the court-martial . |
| 16 | Other events which contributed to the decline of the madeira wine industry were the American Civil War ( which meant a temporary loss of the American market ) and the opening of the Suez Canal ( which meant a reduction in the number of ships calling at Madeira ) . |