Example sentences of "[prep] which [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This early example of government help for education continued until 1858 , after which excise officers were trained by Phillips within the laboratory , and examined by outside assessors . |
| 2 | But first , for me everything was interrupted by six years of army service after which like so many others I had to start again . |
| 3 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 4 | ‘ I used a hot towel and left the product on for ten minutes after which time my hair felt very soft . |
| 5 | They ran the cell all day , after which time a green crust had formed on the cathode . |
| 6 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 7 | Sir John Dobson 's Newcastle Central , begun in 1846 , was the first major station to apply the form , after which rival companies in their unending struggle for supremacy and prestige strove to achieve ever larger roof-spans . |
| 8 | The first barbers at Rome , of Sicilian origin , were said to have arrived in the city in 300 BC , after which date the Romans were clean-shaven . |
| 9 | Dartmoor was used by the inhabitants of both Devon and Cornwall until AD 850 , after which date common rights began to develop for the Moor , protecting the rights of all but the people of Barnstaple and Totnes ( who were excluded after AD 900 ) , while allowing the area to be hunted by the Wessex kings . |
| 10 | I hope that you will have dinner with me , but if you ca n't make it , then telephone me at my London address before Thursday lunchtime , after which date I will be on my way up north and my movements are unpredictable . |
| 11 | Had a long chat with Dad about which service we should attend . |
| 12 | The teacher daily makes decisions about which register to teach , which lexical items to emphasise , whether to teach colloquialisms , and such decisions are frequently based more on instinct than knowledge . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , minnows were quite fussy about which perch nest they chose . |
| 14 | For roughly nine years , a debate raged about which design to choose , involving government departments , parliamentary committees , politicians , as well as the nuclear researchers , operators and construction companies . |
| 15 | Platies and other livebearers do n't pair up in the same way as cichlids do — keeping them in pairs would be a waste of time , as they 're unfussy about which partner they choose to breed with . |
| 16 | Ideally , we should like the government to ensure that the economy is on the Pareto-efficient frontier , shown in Figure 15–2 , but take responsibility for making the value judgement about which point on this frontier the economy should attain . |
| 17 | Congested city graveyards soon acquired very different associations from those about which Kilvert rhapsodised . |
| 18 | The fewer people there are to argue about which channel to watch , the better , I should think . ’ |
| 19 | Q. Is Committee consulted about which work should be undertaken ? |
| 20 | Of course , there are matters we can get angry about which seem far closer to God 's concerns than others . |
| 21 | The difference in this case is that , given the character points in fig 1.2ii there is no indication about which sequence the points were created in . |
| 22 | Perhaps David Hargreaves 's remarks are also somewhat speculative since they rest on no other evidence than that presented by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate ( doubts about which have already been raised ) . |
| 23 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 24 | Editors threaten to resign , partisan journalists are foolhardy enough to stake their reputation on an act charting the following week , anxious record company operatives jam the switchboard — and all over one editorial decision about which photograph to use . |
| 25 | The non-vanishing terms represent the components of a rotation vector ( more properly an anti-symmetric tensor ) and a general deformation consists of terms such as which cause changes of length and which cause rotations . |
| 26 | In writing the last line use has been made of identities such as which result from changing a repeated suffix , in this case . |
| 27 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 28 | A further single-flight stair , in this instance incorporating winding treads at its base , discharges on to the large second-floor landing , off which radiate all four bedrooms ( Fig 56 ) . |
| 29 | — Despite arguments to the contrary ( Duporte , 1965 ; Matsuda , 1970 ) , it may be supposed that the thoracic terga consisted primitively of three simple segmental plates ( the nota ) between which lay small intersegmental sclerites ( Snodgrass , 1927 ) . |
| 30 | Plant nutrients are derived in the most part from the decomposition of plant and animal remains , during which process they reach a peat-like structure that has remarkable powers of moisture absorption and retention , and at the same time has considerable influence on the physical texture and structure of the soil . |