Example sentences of "which [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coke burns with the oxygen in the air to give carbon dioxide C + O2 = CO2 and becomes even hotter since this is a highly energy-releasing ( exothermic ) process in which 97 kilocalories are released for every gram-molecule ( mole ) of carbon dioxide formed . |
| 2 | THE Ombudsman 's report on the Barlow Clowes affair in which 18,000 investors lost £100 million is expected to be highly critical of ministers ' role in the affair . |
| 3 | Examples include the area of metalling alongside the north-south road at Dorchester-on-Thames , the open area south of the basilican building at Godmanchester , the area south of the temple at Irchester and the gravel areas flanking the temple at Wycomb , from which 1100 coins were recovered . |
| 4 | Police are now analysing the results of a 72 hour road check in which 500 motorists in the Sharpness area were stopped and questioned . |
| 5 | The backdrop is the controversial ‘ SS ’ logo painted over a prison wall on which 500 years are marked off . |
| 6 | Almost two years of acrimonious disputes between the Indian Government and the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie came to an end on Jan. 11 , when a court of inquiry in New Delhi ruled that the crash of an Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus in February 1990 , in which 92 people had died , had been due to pilot error , and not to technical failure , as the Indian authorities had maintained [ see p. 37268 ] . |
| 7 | GATT is an attempt to create stability in international trade relations , to which 92 governments are party . |
| 8 | The survey , in which 814 manufacturing companies took part between September 23 and October 14 , after the reduction in base rates to 9pc , shows : |
| 9 | A spokesman confirmed that they probably come from the Bremen Kunstverein , from which fifty paintings , 1,715 drawings and 3,000 prints went missing at the end of the war , and that experts are still examining them . |
| 10 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 11 | Led by Geoff Miller as Botham was attending Viv Richards ' wedding — to which fifty people were invited and two thousand turned up — they beat the Leeward Islands and then moved on to Antigua for the inaugural Test at St John 's , West Indies ' first new Test ground since the opening series of 1929–30 . |
| 12 | Seeing the cramped , coffin-like quarters in which fifty men had to live , eat , sleep and fight , often in appalling weather for up to six weeks at a time and knowing how marginal were their chances of survival , I could n't help but admire the resolution that had kept them fighting , their morale undimmed , until the very end . |
| 13 | It includes the following calendars : Roman ; all possible dates for Easter ; for England in the year AD1752 ( in which eleven dates were dropped ) ; and a chronological table for Easter Days AD500-2000 . |
| 14 | There is also a Segregation Unit , used both for punishment and to isolate men for their own protection or for other reasons ; a hospital unit , and a hostel from which eleven men can work in the town during the day , returning to the prison each night . |
| 15 | The pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad group has admitted it carried out the bomb attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in which eleven people died . |
| 16 | The fourth reason why the Labour party 's hypocrisy and deceit on unemployment is incredible is that the Labour party — I shall not talk about its Common Market Safeguards Committee , of which eight members of the Shadow Cabinet are still members — and the Opposition Front Bench are just as committed as the Government to membership of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 17 | At the same time , however , the government condemned a wave of guerrilla attacks in the departments of Cundinamarca and Antioquia and the intendency of Putumayo in which eight members of the judiciary , a businessman and 10 policemen died . |
| 18 | There are three options : A league in which eight teams play each other once or twice depending on whether ‘ home and away ’ is selection ; a cup which is an eight-team knockout ; and a season which gives both league and cup competitions . |
| 19 | Tell me , Tel , which eight records and which book other than Shakespeare and the Bible , would Mr Cawthorne choose ? ’ |
| 20 | Modrow 's offer was not immediately accepted but on Jan. 28 , after seven hours of talks , Modrow and opposition groups reached agreement on the formation of a government of national responsibility in which eight opposition leaders would enter the Cabinet as ministers without portfolio . |
| 21 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
| 22 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 23 | The British Columbians , despite dogged persistence , could not cope with a pack in which eight men worked as one and where possession once obtained was so powerfully and cunningly retained . |
| 24 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 25 | Situated next to the delightful city of The Hague , Floriade covers a vast 230 acres of which 168 acres are landscaped exhibition areas providing a breathtaking explosion of colour . |
| 26 | This target was revised to 60 500 ( to be achieved by 1984 ) in 1966 and the area of the CDA was extended to 6010 acres , of which 2520 acres were subject to compulsory purchase , if necessary . |
| 27 | In a major study of sexual offences conducted by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology between 1950 and 1954 in which 3000 cases involving sexual offences were investigated , it was found that the proportion of offenders recorded by the police as having committed carnal knowledge of girls aged 13 to 16 who were not brought before the courts was much higher ( 46 per cent. ) than for men charged with other heterosexual offences ( 12 per cent . ) . |
| 28 | The strike action came as the culmination of two weeks of widespread price riots and strikes by 80,000 public sector workers , during which 7,000 people were arrested and an estimated four killed , with 12 others wounded , as the Army and the police confronted protestors looting shops and markets around the country . |
| 29 | Another Documenta Lorna Green travelled to Berlin to witness an alternative to Documenta in which 70 women from 18 countries participated |
| 30 | During the ninety day period preceding the accident he had flown 140 hours , of which seventy-five hours were on the accident type . |