Example sentences of "which time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long there were many activities for which time came to be increasingly regarded as valuable . |
| 2 | Whilst some very local cult developed quickly , it spread only in the mid-fifteenth century , from which time come all the extant depictions of him ( complete with diabolical captive ) , in groups from Norfolk ( Cawston , Suffield , Gateley ) , Suffolk ( St Gregory 's , Sudbury , and possibly Bury St Edmunds Abbey ) and Devon ( Hennock , Alphington , and Wolborough ) ; two texts of a lengthy invocation to him ; and the prosecution ( in 1448 ) of the then vicar of North Marston for counterfeiting his head from an exhumed skull . |
| 3 | John Earle , as early as 1628 , likens the child to Adam before the Fall all innocence which time destroys , for experience corrupts ; yet the original nature of the child is pure . |
| 4 | He returned to base camp on the 16th , by which time hope that Wanda would return had largely faded . |
| 5 | March 1953 , by which time United Soviet States of Russia had become isolated from the western world , refusing to accept Marshall Aid and hiding behind the ‘ Iron Curtain ’ which they had created . |
| 6 | There will be further negotiations between Conder and the council at which time planning officers will oppose the request for the company to reserve public spaces . |
| 7 | Zurich is a city of squares , in many of which time seems to have edged forward by only a few hours since the Middle Ages . |
| 8 | The mind is like a vat in which time works on all the ideas and changes them . |
| 9 | Her local newspaper , the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald , ended an account of her life with a prophesy which time has proved to be accurate : — ‘ Her memory , her deeds , and her example will live and be spoken of long after the generation who knew her personally will have passed away . ’ |
| 10 | The hallmark of Glass 's music is a mesmeric rhythm that provides the structure in which melodic phrases , often of ethereal beauty , undergo a gradual transmutation in which time appears to stand still . |