Example sentences of "[det] which [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a marked concentration in the region of Sagittarius ( the Archer ) , and it was this which led to the discovery that we are having a lop-sided view of the Galaxy because we are not in the middle of it . |
| 2 | It was this which led to the appeal being re-argued before the Appellate Committee of seven which now reports to the House . |
| 3 | Half a mile or so along the valley bottom , the path converged with another which led down the hill from the village . |
| 4 | Where crops were sold both by large estates and small farmers or peasants , the situation was more complex , though in peasant economies , for obvious reasons , the proportion of the crop which came on the world market — i.e. which was not consumed by the producers — from large estates was normally much larger than that which came from the peasant holdings . |
| 5 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 6 | The sedentary farmer succeeded the migrant shepherd as the agent by whom the soil of Spain was squandered ; by the early nineteenth century cereals occupied perhaps three-quarters of the cultivable land , an imbalance between crop and animal husbandry as pernicious as that which prevailed in the heyday of wool . |
| 7 | In any event , residence of some kind was the hallmark of establishment in so far as establishment involved economic integration in the host member state of a kind that was greater than that which arose from the provision of a cross-border service . |
| 8 | That will have a disastrous effect upon the locality equal to that which arose from the threat of the route . |
| 9 | Half a century later , in 1969 , First Artists Productions , a new independent film company , was set up by Paul Newman , Sidney Poitier and Barbra Streisand , with a similar aim — a balance between mammon and idealism — to that which led to the formation of UA . |
| 10 | He says that Murray always tried to help others , and it was doing just that which led to the tragedy . |
| 11 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 12 | The urge to stop the car will not qualify , but that which served as the reason for stopping , namely to assist a distressed animal , well might . |
| 13 | The general rule was that a company could lawfully do only that which fell within the scope of the objects clause . |
| 14 | On the highest point , the beech trees of Cottington 's Clump were moving in a stronger wind than that which blew across the heather . |
| 15 | Speaking on sentencing policy to the Law Society of Scotland 's annual conference at Gleneagles Hotel , Lord Taylor said there were two schools of thought — that which believed in the need for , and efficacy of , punishment and that which did not . |
| 16 | In a ‘ sellers market ’ , similar to that which pertained in the United Kingdom after World War Two , there was little need for promotional activity because demand exceeded supply and whatever was produced was taken up immediately by the market . |
| 17 | The poverty of the farm worker today is obviously very different from that which existed in the countryside in Victorian times , but the majority of farm workers are poor by the standards which we have come to expect in modern Britain . |
| 18 | By mid-1990 the government acknowledged that the threat posed by " military rightists " was a more serious problem that which emanated from the insurgency campaign of the communist New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 19 | Knitmaster had separate manuals or leaflets for these which came with the accessory . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was the initial attempt to date these which led to the discovery of anomalous fading . |
| 21 | It should also be pointed out that the Crown , in the shape of the Ministry of Defence , has said that no objection would be raised to Dr. Hayes giving evidence in strictly controlled circumstances similar to those which applied in the case of evidence furnished by Mr. Feraday in accordance with an agreement dated 22 August 1991 exhibited to an affidavit of Mr. David Brummell dated 13 April 1992 . |
| 22 | The street was one of those which led into the souk and its lower end was completely blocked by stalls . |
| 23 | The legislation aimed to prevent conflicts between the President and the government such as those which led to the dismissal in June of the short-lived government of Jan Olszewski in June [ see pp. 38972-73 ; 39016 ] . |
| 24 | The legislation aimed to prevent conflicts between the President and the government such as those which led to the dismissal in June of the short-lived government of Jan Olszewski in June [ see pp. 38972-73 ; 39016 ] . |
| 25 | The safety breaches were similar to those which led to the Chernobyl accident in 1986 . |
| 26 | Even in 1987 the brand new ship was suffering smells similar to those which led to the deaths of Katherine and James Tomlins . |
| 27 | The provisions relating to Economic and Monetary Union take the form of amendments to the EEC Treaty and therefore form an integral part of Community law ( even if one might have doubts as to the likelihood of the factual events which would trigger the final stage ) ; on the other hand , in the context of the provisions relating to political Union , a distinction was made between those matters which constituted amendments to the existing Community treaties , and those which fell outside the scope of the Communities , notably the provisions on a Common foreign and Security policy and those on co-operation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs . |
| 28 | Though all planning applications were made , in the first instance , to the district , those which fell within the category of ‘ county ’ matters were determined by the county council . |
| 29 | Under SOGIT 1973 , the test of reasonableness was to be applied taking account of all the circumstances including those which occurred after the making of the contract , whereas , under UCTA 1977 , the test is to be applied to the terms of the contract at the time of contracting . |
| 30 | The act affected the working of the political system in a number of significant ways so that it makes sense for us to see the constitution in very different terms from those which focused on the balance between King , Lords and Commons . |