Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although we did n't arrive until nearly midnight , it was still an early call next morning for breakfast , after which came the tricky task of packing our saddle-bags . |
| 4 | Next to the Clements were the Slark family , then the Burtons , after which came the entrance to Garden Cottages . |
| 5 | But first , for me everything was interrupted by six years of army service after which like so many others I had to start again . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
| 8 | ‘ I used a hot towel and left the product on for ten minutes after which time my hair felt very soft . |
| 9 | They ran the cell all day , after which time a green crust had formed on the cathode . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | Accreditation is planned for May 1993 after which approved organisations will begin the delivery of MCI . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The tools have to be looked after which means , in particular , preventing them from rusting ( a thin smearing of oil does the trick ) ; tools with cutting edges should be kept sharp with their blades protected against damage . |
| 17 | Had a long chat with Dad about which service we should attend . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , minnows were quite fussy about which perch nest they chose . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 23 | There is a need for clarity about which plans or courses of action must be brought to any finance sub-committee or , indeed , the full governing body for discussion and ratification , or when , if ever , a phone call to the chair might be sufficient . |
| 24 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Informal monitoring may be conducted throughout the trial together with discrete observation of staff behaviour about which notes may be written . |
| 27 | On the subject of bitmap file formats , like BMP , PCX , TIFF and TGA , there are no concrete rules about which to use ( bar EPS for separations ) . |
| 28 | Congested city graveyards soon acquired very different associations from those about which Kilvert rhapsodised . |
| 29 | The fewer people there are to argue about which channel to watch , the better , I should think . ’ |
| 30 | As part of the course , she has to choose a subject of her own about which to write a paper ; one of her difficulties is to know how to form her own views , not just copy already received opinions . |