Example sentences of "which [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , it has been pointed out that there was no net increase in total real wealth between 1913 and 1951 , and in this context the world wars are cast as the harpies which devoured the accumulated efforts of previous generations . |
| 2 | But the specific features and structural characteristics of the German socio-political culture in the short-lived and ill-fated nation-state , which conditioned the manufacture and appeal of the extraordinary ‘ Hitler myth ’ , were largely swept away in the whirlpool of change arising from total defeat , and were completely banished in the process of long-term change deriving from post-war reconstruction . |
| 3 | The company acquired had many business interests which overlapped the company 's own businesses . |
| 4 | The existing management was organised around establishments , each with its own board of management , its own financial system , its own marketing and commercial organisation , its safety infrastructure , administration and so on , but with business interests which overlapped the other establishments . |
| 5 | In 1968 the Government introduced the Newspaper Ordnance ( Amendment ) Bill , which empowered the president to order a newspaper to cease publication when he considered it in the public interest to do so . |
| 6 | Before the Act , section 5 of the 1936 Act was supplemented by a miscellany of powers to be found in local legislation , which empowered the police to deal with minor nuisances and acts of hooliganism . |
| 7 | But in Britain , with its strong governmental impulse as created in the Victorian period in the aftermath of the 1855 Northcote-Trevelyan report , with the British faith in the educated , patrician ‘ expert ’ which kindled the support of American progressives and ‘ genteel reformers ’ in the previous century , the decline of planning and the loss of confidence in the effectiveness of social engineering had a deep cultural impact . |
| 8 | This is the action in the famous Argyll v. Argyll , which concerned the possible disclosure of intimate marital secrets . |
| 9 | In the meantime the only guidance as to what would constitute an acceptable limit on Article 8(1) rights is the rather equivocal decision in the Klass case which concerned the operation of surveillance procedures in the German Federal Republic where legislation authorized telephone-tapping and other surveillance techniques if a number of conditions were satisfied . |
| 10 | Since the working class is the largest group and the group which concerned the educational reformers of 1944 , it is the natural choice of a base for the class variable . |
| 11 | IN OUR LETTER from Nowhere column in the June 1991 issue , we published an article written by Victor Lewis-Smith under the headline ‘ Confessions of a Female Member ’ , which concerned the Chelsea Arts Club . |
| 12 | The Code was later amended to reflect the difficulty which had arisen in the case , which concerned the selection of an estranged parent as an ‘ appropriate adult ’ to be present during the interviewing of a juvenile : see now Code C Note 1C , which provides that an estranged parent should not be asked to fulfil this role if the juvenile objects to his presence . |
| 13 | Finally , Mr. Beloff placed strong reliance on the decision of Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. in E.M.I . Records Ltd. v Spillane [ 1986 ] 1 W.L.R. 967 , which concerned the position of a solicitor , who held a document disclosed on discovery by the opposite party in litigation subject to the usual implied undertaking , when confronted by a notice from the Customs and Excise to produce the document to them pursuant to their wide powers under the VAT legislation . |
| 14 | In Gubisch Maschinenfabrik K.G. v. Palumbo ( Case 144/86 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 , which Mr. Beazley relied on as laying down the broad general principles which should be applicable , and which concerned the interpretation of article 21 of the Brussels Convention , the Court of Justice stated , at p. 4874 : |
| 15 | The points which concerned the visitors in In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1981 ] Q.B . |
| 16 | Other aspects which concerned the public such as the need to retain certain uneconomic railway lines , the use of coal to prevent too fast a rise in unemployment in areas dependent on mining or the case for airports on remote islands in Scotland , could then all be urged from outside on the individual industries and on the Ministry for Nationalized Industries without confusing these social objectives with the normal criteria of operation . |
| 17 | The Soviet and East European participants , however , were obliged in return to give their agreement to the so-called ‘ Basket 3 ’ , which concerned the movement of people and ideas between East and West in areas such as tourism , the reunification of families and access to printed and other media The Final Act also committed its signatories to a series of follow-up meetings , designed to monitor the fulfilment of the agreement ; the first of these was held in Belgrade in 1977 , and the second in Madrid in 1980 . |
| 18 | The Director of Studies was absent from the third meeting and the discussion , which concerned the staffing of the Art Department , was between the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Head of Department . |
| 19 | This does not mean that conventional men of intelligence and ability thought that either science or society had solved all problems , though in some respects , such as those which concerned the basic pattern of an economy and the basic pattern of the physical universe , some very able ones felt that all substantial ones had been solved . |
| 20 | But this was an empirical observation which concerned the economic circumstances of a particular country at a particular period of time : it had nothing whatever to do with his general theory of employment . |
| 21 | In the first , Malone v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis ( No 2 ) [ 1979 ] 2 All ER 620 , which concerned the use to which recordings of telephone conversations made with the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Office , Megarry V-C said " it seems to me that a person who utters confidential information must accept the risk of any unknown overhearing that is inherent in the circumstances of the communication " . |
| 22 | I READ the letter headed ‘ White elephants ’ which concerned the Playhouse , Everyman and William Roberts Centre . |
| 23 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 24 | Codelco , the Chilean state copper corporation which devised the experiments is now testing for commercial production at a larger site in the valley . |
| 25 | There was a lipless mouth , their were deep eye sockets from which gleamed the small evil , old eyes of the necromancer . |
| 26 | Tolkien did not believe in ‘ old religions ’ or ‘ witch-cults ’ ; C. S. Lewis wrote a paper called ‘ The Anthropological Approach ’ which damned the learned variety of that error beyond redemption . |
| 27 | In what the book called ‘ the Lebanon district ’ — for Lebanon would not be a separate independent state for another half century — the writer identified the various religious communities which inhabited the land : Sunni and Shia Muslims , the Druze , the Maronite Christians , Greek Catholic and Greek Orthodox Christians . |
| 28 | Of all the human races which inhabited the Imperium , Yuan 's had been isolated perhaps the longest before re-integration . |
| 29 | Only two were Manchus , but the rest provided an excellent sample of the width of the spectrum of variations of species homo which inhabited the worlds of the Imperium . |
| 30 | The manager proved to be very co-operative , and Thornton and Higgs were shown the machines which processed the dolphin meat into round slabs of meal , and a huge open vat of dolphin oil . |