Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [vb past] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China . |
2 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
3 | Several of you are already subscribed twice in this way — as a result of the confusion which occured the last time the Oxford mailer was messed about with . |
4 | Theodora leaned over the white rail fence which formed the fourth side of Yaxlee 's yard . |
5 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
6 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |
7 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
8 | During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War . |
9 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
10 | However , his incorrigible nature meant he was unrepentant , and Loki ultimately formed an army to fight THOR and Odin in the Ragnarok , the battle which destroyed the First World . |
11 | The mother , as I say , may or may not be the hen which hatched the first brood ; but from her behaviour , which seems slightly less frenetic , I reckon she is someone else . |
12 | He climbed up the outside staircase past the fountains surrounded by black-veiled women filling their pots with water and out on to the little parapeted promenade which crowned the second storey . |
13 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
14 | The pro-nuclear scientists say it was a necessary prototype which spawned the next generation of power stations . |
15 | AUBREY BOOMER was the last surviving member of the Great Britain and Ireland Ryder Cup team which contested the first match against the Americans in 1927 . |
16 | The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm . |
17 | Speed got booked for a heavy tackle which prompted the first use of the chant ‘ the referee 's a German ’ . |
18 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
19 | From the second half of the 1960s , the aims of these new sectors and the tensions between them and the Francoist old guard would contribute to the build-up of pressure for democracy which characterized the last decade of Franco 's life . |
20 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
21 | The 34027 Locomotive Group still retain the prestigious opportunity of being able to say that it was their locomotive which took the first train hauled by a steam locomotive into Waterloo after some 25 years . |
22 | Ten of the 25 practices in the Oxford Regional Health Authority which entered the first wave of the fundholding scheme were asked to continue collecting referral data for a further year . |
23 | Ironically , in view of what had happened fifty years earlier , it was now the School 's success which precipitated the next crisis . |
24 | Smith was on course to cross ahead of Steinlager 2 's track , the 84 foot ketch which won the first leg having slowed noticeably in the past two days . |
25 | Indeed it was this economic growth which made the Second Empire so important for 19th- and even 20th-century France . |
26 | In May 1991 the prince visited Prague , a city which survived the Second World War unscathed , during an East European trip with the Princess of Wales . |
27 | On one side is a reiteration of the Whiggish , teleological view of history which dominated the nineteenth century , demonstrating present western culture as the result of a continuous enlightenment and development of civilisation from the beginnings of the early modern period until the present . |
28 | Mike Wilson , managing director of Gameplan , the company which organised the first event last September , said he was still searching for ‘ someone to fire the starting pistol ’ with a commitment to guarantee the necessary money . |
29 | That permitted a last Malthusian response to the then unprecedented economic growth and prosperity which followed the Second World War . |
30 | The ‘ younger people ’ as they were known started to ready themselves for the expedition which started the next day . |