Example sentences of "which ran [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the range of the latter , his historical output was substantial , with his work in English history , best represented by England in the Nineteenth Century , 1815–1914 ( 1950 ) , eclipsed in quality by his work on French history , which was attractively written and distinctive in approach and content : his several books on the subject included Democracy in France ( 1946 ) , which ran into five editions before his death . |
| 2 | Mawson published two main works , The Art and Craft of Garden Making ( 1900 ) , which ran into five editions , and Civic Art ( 1911 ) , in which he discussed the principles of town planning . |
| 3 | There were some comparatively small reductions to the Housing Benefit budget but the major savings — which ran into billions of pounds — were for the 1990s and the next century . |
| 4 | The company , which ran into big trouble after a couple of customers failed to complete big orders as expected — when the orders had already been booked as sales in the figures , says it is unlikely to be acquired because of a Sword of Damocles hanging over it in the form of outstanding class-action law suits . |
| 5 | As the author of many papers and books on metallurgical topics , Desch 's most notable contribution was his book Metallography , which ran to six editions between 1910 and 1942 . |
| 6 | Jammed into one of the blocks was a bright-green electrical wire , the other end of which ran to one of the jaws of the wooden clothes-peg Quinn held aloft in his left hand . |
| 7 | His other publications included A Manual of the Operations of Surgery , which ran to seven editions , and articles on scapulo-humeral dislocation and pulsating tumours of the orbit . |
| 8 | ‘ A fifth-century Greek poet named Tryphiodorus composed an epic poem on the voyages of Ulysses which ran to 24 books . |
| 9 | In 1886 he published A Treatise in Spherical Trigonometry with his cousin W. J. McClelland , which ran to several editions . |
| 10 | The Queen 's Way , which ran at right angles to the King 's Way , was to have a massive terminal station at its head , dominating Connaught Circus and second in importance only to the Viceroy 's palace on the Raisina Acropolis at the head of King 's Way . |
| 11 | Kasonde predicted that inflation , which ran at 118 per cent in 1991 , would be reduced and indicated that government subsidies on various commodities , which accounted for 25 per cent of state expenditure , would be further reduced and ultimately ended [ see also p. 38666 ] . |
| 12 | Edward Thomas , the manager , often travelled with the train , which ran on three days a week , from 1947 , in the summer only . |
| 13 | The race was only open to vehicles which ran on unorthodox fuels , or which had internal combustion engines modified for greater energy efficiency . |
| 14 | Dozens of popular tourist spots across the world were represented at the exhibition which ran for five days . |
| 15 | One of the top sit-coms was ‘ On the Buses ’ which ran for sixty episodes . |
| 16 | Over £100,000 was spent on the campaign , which ran for six months , and culminated in the then Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's smug remark , following the Budget in March 1985 , that he had never had any intention of imposing a tax on books . |
| 17 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 18 | The seminar , which ran for two days , was attended by some 300 people . |
| 19 | The turning-point in Lynn 's career came in 1922 when Leslie Henson and Tom Walls [ qq.v. ] cast him in Tons of Money , a sparkling farce which ran for two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre . |
| 20 | Mrs Dale 's Diary , which ran for twenty-one years on BBC radio from 1948 , was always gently laced with humour ; its rural rival , The Archers , which began two years later , is a broadly similar amalgam of the playful and the sentimental ; and between them , in a sub-literary sort of way , they illustrate the power of a revived realism in post-war Britain : quite different from the grand-opera histrionics of American TV soaps like Dallas or Dynasty , which are scarcely funny at all , at least in intention , and wildly unrealistic as images of how the rich in the United States really live . |
| 21 | This most popular show , which ran for 12 years and hooked 22 million viewers at its peak , operated under all the usual constraints of economy sit-com — restricted set , small cast , tiresome re-establishment of norm every week — but somehow extracted magic from little more than the relationship between Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambles . |
| 22 | What 's in the Box ? was one of the greatest successes of 1953 , and in 1960 Steen 's purchase of the King 's Theatre off Shaftesbury Avenue heralded a string of commercial triumphs , including One Thing After Another , which ran for three years , and , currently , Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other . |
| 23 | The group sessions , which ran for 90 minutes each week , opened with the clients discussing what they had eaten during the previous week . |
| 24 | In 1883 Robinson published The English Flower Garden , the Bible of natural gardening , which ran through fifteen expanding editions during his life and several more thereafter . |
| 25 | very much part of , which ran alongside this moral economy |
| 26 | The World League , which ran in 1991 and 1992 , was dropped this year because of poor TV ratings in the US . |
| 27 | Their surfaces were ribbed by corrugation , which ran in wavy lines three inches across , like giant fingerprints , but without whorls or loops . |
| 28 | A fever sent him back to Britain , where he wrote for Blackwood 's Magazine under the pseudonym ‘ Colin Ballantyne ’ , edited a Tory paper , British Press or Morning Literary Adviser , and established the Telescope , a paper focusing on Indian affairs , which ran until 1825 . |
| 29 | Some of the more successful systems were products of the North American DARPA research program into speech understanding , which ran from 1971 to 1976 . |
| 30 | For example , The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show , which ran from 1950 to 1958 , made no attempt to construct bogus personas for the eponymous couple . |