Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By designating such materials as in varying degrees precious they have created symbols of excellence , a quality which stems from aesthetic awareness but the striving for which lies at the very root of the civilizations created by man . |
| 2 | Basse-Navarre , or Lower Navarre , was originally the French end of the kingdom of Navarre , the larger part of which lay on the far side of the Pyrenees , in Spain . |
| 3 | The provision was designed to assist the government in assuaging widespread land-hunger by resettling some 110,000 peasant farmers on about 5,000,000 hectares of white-owned land , the bulk of which lay in the fertile maize and tobacco belt in the north-east of the country . |
| 4 | One was a £230,000 ‘ compensation for loss of office ’ , the bulk of which went to the former chief executive , Emmanuel Olympitis , who suddenly departed last month . |
| 5 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 6 | In 1958 and 1959 Uruguay sold 16 per cent of its wool exports to Communist countries , the bulk of which went to the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | As a result the Company lost its monopoly ; after 1697 all English merchants could trade with West Africa , though they were supposed to pay a tax of 10 per cent of the value of goods exported from England , the proceeds of which went to the Royal Africa Company to enable it to keep up its forts on the West African coast . |
| 8 | HE left NME to create the equally successful Smash Hits and then decided to go it alone with £4,000 from his building society account — all of which went into the first edition of The Face . |
| 9 | In 1829–31 he erected two wrought-iron suspension bridges , at Scotswood across the Tyne ( demolished 1967 ) and at Whorlton across the Tees , the latter of which survives as the oldest bridge of its type in the country still supported unaided by its original chains . |
| 10 | There he built his palace and chapel , part of which survives in the present cathedral . |
| 11 | Around 100 members and guests participated in the programmes , the first of which looked at the future economic development of Scotland while the second examined the social and political circumstances relating to the ambitions outlined in the first . |
| 12 | Mr Faulks said : ‘ Inside the police found a complete confidence trickster 's set with 26 different charge cards either in the name of Garawand or in the name of Yousefi and ten cheque books , four of which related to the same account at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington . ’ |
| 13 | The former was the obvious clash between Britain 's need for exports to pay her way in the post-war world and the requirement of the rearmament programme , both of which competed for the same scarce skills and resources of the metal-working industries to the detriment of the export trade . |
| 14 | Companies have other attractions besides the limitation of members ' liability , most of which flow from the separate legal personality with which corporations are endowed under English law . |
| 15 | Contracts for the acquisition of computer equipment and software present special problems , many of which flow from the unique nature of computer technology . |
| 16 | Apart from the works cited in this introduction , some of which refer to the American and Australian literature , there are now two books specifically directed to the analysis of many of these issues within a British context . |
| 17 | The additional buildings allocated to accommodate the museum 's auxiliary services require money for expensive reconstruction work , as does the completion of the Technical Support complex construction of which began in the mid-'80s . |
| 18 | The Rectory , stands a little below the church on the site of an earlier house , some of which remains under the long lean-to at the back . |
| 19 | Typical layout of a rabbit warren , showing the entrances , bolt-holes and dead-ends , all of which figure in the ferreting technique . |
| 20 | The drawings , by Talman himself and a group of mainly Italian artists , depict objects from ecclesiastical and princely treasuries , many of which disappeared during the Napoleonic invasions . |
| 21 | The 1830s saw the foundation of hundreds of small banks like the Midland , many of which failed in the successive financial crises of the following decade . |
| 22 | This year the prize table was especially attractive and the wide variety of ‘ white elephants ’ presented quite a problem of which to choose for the higher scoring competitors . |
| 23 | The intense gravitational field near the black hole causes the creation of pairs of particles and antiparticles , one of which falls into the black hole and the other of which escapes to infinity . |
| 24 | The frequency and volume of business material , not all of which falls into the legal deposit category , means that gaps do exist in the business collection . |
| 25 | Figure 5 is another little collection from my trophy room , all of which developed in the same kind of way . |
| 26 | This improvement was achieved despite losses on Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ totalling $65m net of external reinsurance , $20m of which came in the final quarter . |
| 27 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Rosslyn Park , going backwards constantly and finding their defence overrun , inevitably conceded penalties , the first of which came in the fourth minute . |
| 29 | For the clubs , as ever , the issue is money , most of which goes to the First Division . |
| 30 | The average family sends back $100 a month and pays a $10 fee to send it , part of which goes to the Vietnamese government . |