Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China .
2 But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood .
3 Several of you are already subscribed twice in this way — as a result of the confusion which occured the last time the Oxford mailer was messed about with .
4 Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War .
5 Theodora leaned over the white rail fence which formed the fourth side of Yaxlee 's yard .
6 ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace .
7 He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range .
8 Most of the prototypes of both civil and military aircraft which followed the Second World War were fitted with both still and movie cameras for recording specially fitted instrument panels , but their use was confined to test flying and performance proving .
9 He was describing Odd-Knut 's Volvo which arrived the next morning , the like of which I have yet to see again .
10 School Mission had first been conceived by Edward Thring , headmaster of Uppingham , but it was Eton which opened the first club in 1880 , followed by Harrow in 1883 .
11 His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions .
12 In the history of the six generations which succeeded the first H.O .
13 The ‘ middle class ’ designation has retained some validity for so long , covering such disparate socio-economic categories , largely because of the remarkable tenacity of the amalgam of cultural values which characterised the nineteenth century middle classes : part bourgeois ( thrift , independence ) and part acquired from the aristocracy and gentry ( respectability , ‘ gentlemanly ’ behaviour ) .
14 During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War .
15 Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’
16 However , his incorrigible nature meant he was unrepentant , and Loki ultimately formed an army to fight THOR and Odin in the Ragnarok , the battle which destroyed the First World .
17 Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures .
18 The mother , as I say , may or may not be the hen which hatched the first brood ; but from her behaviour , which seems slightly less frenetic , I reckon she is someone else .
19 They were dismayed by the crop of books and articles which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Wales 's marriage and Diana 's 30th birthday .
20 He climbed up the outside staircase past the fountains surrounded by black-veiled women filling their pots with water and out on to the little parapeted promenade which crowned the second storey .
21 Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea .
22 The pro-nuclear scientists say it was a necessary prototype which spawned the next generation of power stations .
23 AUBREY BOOMER was the last surviving member of the Great Britain and Ireland Ryder Cup team which contested the first match against the Americans in 1927 .
24 The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm .
25 Speed got booked for a heavy tackle which prompted the first use of the chant ‘ the referee 's a German ’ .
26 ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’
27 Dubosc 's contribution to the field of Chinese studies included the 1954 exhibition in Venice which commemorated the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo 's visit to China .
28 Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four .
29 Above the doorway was a succession of clocks which indicated the next departures to the principal destinations .
30 From the second half of the 1960s , the aims of these new sectors and the tensions between them and the Francoist old guard would contribute to the build-up of pressure for democracy which characterized the last decade of Franco 's life .
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