Example sentences of "[noun prp] which [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving evidence , Capt von Humbracht said that he picked up the uniform , hat and sword belonging to Napoleon which lay on the ground . |
| 2 | Sagadat Nurmagambetov , held two days of talks in Alma Ata which concluded with the signature on Aug. 19 of a military agreement , covering the transfer of personnel between the two armed forces , training , and military co-operation . |
| 3 | With the Paisley side leading 1-0 referee Douglas Hope decided a mishit clearance by Martin Baker which ballooned into the air and was picked up by goalkeeper Les Fridge was a pass-back . |
| 4 | The Fly in the Ointment brings to a conclusion the trilogy of novels by Alice Thomas Ellis which began with The Clothes in the Wardrobe and The Skeleton in the Cupboard . |
| 5 | In 1832 Nicholas made a trade agreement with Washington which lasted for the rest of the century . |
| 6 | Three areas of made ground were present on the line of the road , the most significant of these three being the backfilled quarry area at Straiton which resulted from the extraction of the limestone by opencast methods to a maximum depth of 16 metres . |
| 7 | The conference heard that out of 732 post-mortem examinations — on victims of the Air India Boeing which crashed into the Atlantic near Cork , Zeebrugge , Piper Alpha , Lockerbie and Kegworth — 80.22 per cent of identifications had been through dentistry records . |
| 8 | The most notable capture was that of Caen which fell at the end of July , and which , according to the chronicler Froissart , was the source of much material gain which was taken down the river Orne to the coast for shipment back to England . |
| 9 | Has my right hon. Friend had an opportunity to look at the study in The Financial Times on 6 January which pointed to the fact that the northern region has very much benefited from the economic restructuring of the 1980s and is now coming out of recession faster than any other part of the country , due to the success of the regeneration programmes that the Government have put in place in the region ? |
| 10 | A map recovered from the wreckage showed a direct track drawn between Blackbushe and Cranfield which passed through the north west comer of the Luton special rules zone . |
| 11 | The new government of Russia which negotiated with the brother of Nicholas II with a view to restoring the monarchy in Russia , and in which the leading monarchists Lvov and Guchkov occupy leading positions , this government is trying to represent as a defensive war … its imperialist war with Germany , to represent as a defence of the Russian republic … the defence of the predatory imperialist bandit-like aims of Russian , English , and other capital . |
| 12 | In 1317 he and Pembroke combined to restrain the most avaricious of the courtiers , Roger Damory [ q.v. ] , in order to placate the court 's leading opponent , Thomas , Earl of Lancaster [ q.v. ] ; and he went on to play a part in the negotiations with Lancaster which culminated in the treaty of Leake in 1318 . |
| 13 | His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October . |
| 14 | The ideas of Anton Pannekoek which emerged with the publication of his Workers ' Council after World War One provided a ready-made model of a non-hierarchical political system . |
| 15 | The latest UN peace plan followed proposals unveiled on May 10 by ex-king Zahir Shah which called for the establishment of a national committee including mujaheddin leaders , free elections and a parliamentary system . |
| 16 | They nodded to Maggie Jones and Ida Bromsgrove who were chatting together on the doorstep , and to Grace Crossley , the landlady of the Kings Arms which stood on the corner of Page Street . |
| 17 | The English actions were not combined in a single trial but subject to an order of Steyn J. which provided for the selection of lead cases to ensure determination of the major points of law and to avoid multiplicity of litigation . |
| 18 | All this Tallis expressed to the shaman , Wyn-rajathuk , who listened in silence , his hand on her arm , his eye on the face of Harry which watched from the pieces of dead wood . |
| 19 | ( It was the publicity given to a case in Egham which led to the setting up of the Arton Wilson Committee . ) |
| 20 | The long and bitter dispute in Hillingdon which culminated in the closure of the centre in April 1979 and the closure of the three Wandsworth law centres in January 1980 illustrate the problems faced by law centres . |
| 21 | It was , for example , the House of Lords which insisted upon the institution of conciliation machinery in the Race Relations Act 1965 , which experience elsewhere strongly suggested was the key to success but which the Commons had , strangely , omitted . |
| 22 | The Dutch types were overwhelmingly preferred during the 1940s , when there was a general boom for dual-purpose breeds in Britain , but a few Canadian animals were preserved , bolstered by Canadian gifts of heifers to promote the Holstein in Britain which led to the formation of the separate British Holstein Society in 1947 . |
| 23 | Of these the most important was Abydos and either the pilgrimage to Abydos was depicted on the walls of the tomb or the deceased erected a stele along the great processional way at Abydos which led to the tomb of Osiris . |
| 24 | We have recently seen the horrendous stabbing in Walthamstow which resulted in the death of Sergeant Alan King , a popular Chingford policeman . |
| 25 | One may indeed go so far as to assert that the Japanese occupation of Indochina was the key issue in the conflict between Japan and the US which led to the attack at Pearl Harbor ; and after what was , initially , a rather lofty approach to the problems of Indochina and Southeast Asian security , America 's final demand that Japan remove its forces from both China and Indochina ( 26 November 1941 ) was met with the equally final Japanese rejection which manifested itself at Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Southeast Asia . |
| 26 | The presence in such deserts as the Sahara of vast lakes such as mega-Chad which overflowed into the Bodele depression south of the Tibesti seems more the sort of feature which would have resulted from increased Pleistocene rainfall . |
| 27 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 28 | It was , then , peace or truce which threatened their existence , and it was because of the termination of hostilities between England and France which resulted from the treaty of Brétigny in 1360 , followed as this was in 1364 by the ending of the Navarrese challenge to the royal authority in Normandy and the war of Breton succession , that France , Italy and Spain were to be hosts to the Companies in the 1360s . |
| 29 | It involved Avro Tudor G-AKBY which crashed in the Llandow circuit on March 20 , 1950 . |
| 30 | Eventual development was to follow the vision of William Vaughan which roamed beyond the Pool to embrace Wapping , the Isle of Dogs and Rotherhithe . |