Example sentences of "which the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , while these books are in the ‘ horror ’ genre which the twentieth century has made its own , they are not written without an eye to their context in literary history beyond their descent from Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the Gothic novel . |
| 2 | Even allowing for the fact that Orphism , as the most recent artistic novelty , was attracting the attention of a press and public made restless and sensation-hungry by the numerous artistic upheavals which the twentieth century had already witnessed , the fact is that by 1914 the abstract tendencies in European painting were already assuming an importance second only to that of Cubism from which they had largely sprung . |
| 3 | In April 1945 , while the division was stationed near Graz under the command of the SS Gen Freytag , it was joined from Berlin by Gen Pavel Shandruk , President of the German-sponsored Ukrainian National Committee and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army ( of which the 1st Ukrainian Division was the most important component ) . |
| 4 | Today the sounds from the packed car park and souvenir shop must surely drown the water-music of Rorie More 's Cascade , the waterfall which the thirteenth Macleod chieftain liked to hear roaring beneath his window before he slept . |
| 5 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 6 | So it was that the agreement on which the first National Government was formed was ignored by the King , who granted a dissolution under conditions which broke both the letter and the spirit of the agreement . |
| 7 | That was the same year in which the first of the classic Austin-Healey line , the four cylinder 100–4 went into production , having been adopted by Austin from a Healey design shown at the previous year 's show . |
| 8 | But the vision was a long way off from Britain , for which the first two years of the Fifties were a continuation of wartime in civilian clothes . |
| 9 | CANADA 'S Daniel Wesley won the BSAD-ADT London Wheelchair marathon at his third attempt , following a sprint finish on Westminster Bridge in which the first four competitors all achieved times inside Frenchman Farid Amarouch 's 1991 course record . |
| 10 | The first and second layer spacing is obtained similarly from α c measured along directions for which the first and second layer atoms lie in the same place . |
| 11 | There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation . |
| 12 | The old gene-selected evolution , by making brains , provided the ‘ soup ’ in which the first memes arose . |
| 13 | A rare approach to library use from the reader 's point of view is Frank Hatt 's The reading process , of which the first two chapters are essential reading . |
| 14 | Suppose , for example , you are employed for three years , of which the first is to be spent abroad and the other two in Great Britain . |
| 15 | These radial coaches , of which the first was built in 1882 , were 42ft long over bodies , with a total wheel base of 32ft ; the end pair of wheels were 8ft centre to centre and 1 6ft between the centres of the middle wheels . |
| 16 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 17 | A good example is provided by his comment on the way in which the first editor of the journal Nature allowed his personal opinions to intrude upon its pages : ‘ [ Norman ] Lockyer sometimes forgets that he is only the editor and not the author of Nature . ’ |
| 18 | Subsequent writers , however , have copied Patrick Forbes 's work without checking for themselves , and the misleading myth has evolved in which the first thousand litres of the cuvée is believed to be officially designated the premiere cuvée . |
| 19 | On to Charterhouse , the public school at which the first stirrings of what was to become Genesis began … |
| 20 | There are essentially two reasons , of which the first is the munificence of W. C. T. 's London cousins . |
| 21 | They discussed and they reached a conclusion ; as a result a new church school — Curry Rivel Parochial School — was built in Church Street in 1876 , the year in which the first of two Acts was passed making school attendance compulsory . |
| 22 | IF THESE SALES HAVE NOT BEEN ACHIEVED THEN THE BALANCE OF ROYALTIES UNPAID WILL BECOME PAYABLE THREE YEARS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH THE FIRST CASSETTES WERE MANUFACTURED . |
| 23 | IF THESE SALES HAVE NOT BEEN ACHIEVED THEN THE BALANCE OF ROYALTIES UNPAID WILL BECOME PAYABLE THREE YEARS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH THE FIRST CASSETTES WERE MANUFACTURED . |
| 24 | We had moored off a deserted cay rimmed with a beach of clear sand above which the first stars were pricking the warm sky , while , beneath Wavebreaker 's bimini cover , half-moon ice cubes clinked in crystal glasses . |
| 25 | This general outline story of the first Passover is called the Haggadah , after which the first part of the special Psalms for Passover are sung , known as the Hallel Psalms ( Psalms 112–13 ) . |
| 26 | But there is a more general condition , which the first use of ‘ Here ’ shares with the second , namely , the possibility of distinguishing one place from another . |
| 27 | He was a non-active member of the movement , but an analysis of his heavily autobiographical books and novels , in which the first World War is of crucial significance , throws considerable light on the origins of fascism . |
| 28 | Of course a chronological narrative can be constructed , but the history of physics in fact has its own temporality in which the first event after Aristotle was Newton , the second was Einstein , the third black holes , etc . |
| 29 | The rise of the hill is dominated by a statue of Robert the Bruce on horseback , and within a swirl of concrete rotunda is the Borestone , at which the first blow of the battle was struck and by which Bruce set up his standard . |
| 30 | Since they were flourishing during the period when the land was invaded and since they certainly possessed limb-like fins , it seemed likely that they were the creatures from which the first land vertebrates were descended . |