Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Japanese aristocrat , which I first came across many years ago in a Berkshire woodland garden , is Kirengeshoma palmata , with large , lobed , vine-like leaves on dark 3ft stems . |
| 2 | It 's a magic technique and one which I first tried years ago but never knitted as a pattern as not many people then had the facilities to make use of it . |
| 3 | No longer ( as happened in the primary school in which I first worked ) would the teacher responsible for the fourth year ‘ scholarship ’ class leave them as soon as the examination day ( in January ) was passed — going to prepare the third year ‘ A ’ stream for next year 's examinations with a diet of chanted tables , spelling tests , drills in mental arithmetic , weekly essays , grammatical analysis , punctuation , and worksheets based on past intelligence test papers . |
| 4 | There were red-throated pipits , a bird but rarely seen in Britain while on migration , and which I first identified on Out Skerries . |
| 5 | Bending the runners is simple enough using a development of a technique , which I first came across in the book ‘ Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America ’ ( Adney & Chapelle , unfortunately long out of print ) , used by American Indians to form the stem pieces on birch bark canoes . |
| 6 | Although the passages to which I first referred support the conclusion reached by Hoffmann J. as to the effect of the judgment of the Court of Appeal , I do not think that reading the judgment overall such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge ’ was intended to be laid down in Cloverbay . |
| 7 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 8 | Referring to the point at which I first tried to intervene , he will know that there is under-reporting of crime . |
| 9 | If they do not seem to be doing too well , or if you have seen all you want to see , let the collected animals free again in the pond or other place from which you first took them . |
| 10 | Then , in the sixteenth century , what had been a military building was converted by the Albret dynasty , who were now the rulers here , into a sophisticated civilian one , suitable as a home for courtly pursuits — there are some fine Renaissance doorways and windows dating from that conversion on the left and at the far end of the very irregular courtyard into which you first go . |
| 11 | The variety of course combinations may seem bewildering at first sight , but they result from having a flexible system which tries to allow you to move to new subjects if you find them more attractive than the subjects which you first chose . |
| 12 | That same night he had written a letter which she first saw on opening her eyes , which she had read over her coffee , wearing , she remembered now , her new negligee with its neck of coral swansdown . |
| 13 | The cynicism which grows out of not having her tender feelings acknowledged and valued replaces the openness and tenderness with which she first entered into the partnership . |
| 14 | The notion that the writing is meant to explain her work to others is supported by her use if the ‘ revolutionary ’ -to-evolutionary ’ tag which she first used in a letter to a friend ( in 1919 ) and then , quoting herself , she reemploys the phrase in her diary ( in 1920 , and again , in 1921 ) . |
| 15 | Ms Hoey , who strengthened her majority at the last general election in Vauxhall , which she first won at a by-election , has also caused a stir over Northern Ireland policy . |
| 16 | The chicken , which she next drew from the fridge , had , so the label proclaimed , ranged freely over a district of France before being hygienically and humanely slaughtered and packed . |
| 17 | Given knowledge of the parts and their causes , synthesis will culminate in knowledge of the causes of the whole with which we first began in experience . |
| 18 | And they 're especially evocative , not just because they 're detailed period pieces ( just look at those sideburns ) but because they so often recall the circumstances in which we first watched them . |
| 19 | And when we watch these films again , fifteen years later , how often do we find ourselves drawn back to the world in which we first saw them ? |
| 20 | This is the apparatus which we first assumed , in the task 's original definition . |
| 21 | The usual remedy was the special action of trespass on the case for negligently allowing one 's fire to escape in contravention of the general custom of the realm which we first hear of in Beaulieu v. Finglam . |
| 22 | This diagram is , of course , the old and familiar friend which we first encountered in Chapter 2 when discussing Pigou 's theory of employment . |
| 23 | I think that the bill which we first saw may well not be the bill that is eventually produced at the end of the day . |
| 24 | The sections to which we next turn are concerned with publication of the ‘ statutory ’ accounts only . |
| 25 | At the same time , Libet set up a procedure for allowing subjects to report the time at which they first experienced the conscious intention to act . |
| 26 | Dancing masters gradually developed the classical technique from European folk dance which they first changed into the elegant steppings of courtiers in the palaces of Italian and Spanish kings and prelates . |
| 27 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |
| 28 | T&M have reintroduced ‘ Brilliant ’ , a tall pink phlox suitable for cutting which they first listed in 1901 . |
| 29 | The English firm which they first suggested returned the typescript . |
| 30 | The eponymous notion of Ferdinand Magellan 's men that the Mar del Sur was a Pacific sea , blessed by fine weather and pleasant breezes , was more or less coded — at least , for that region of the Ocean through which they first sailed and where their optimism was at its height . |