Example sentences of "[det] which [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | It is probably this which accounts for the menu price rises . |
| 4 | Half a mile or so along the valley bottom , the path converged with another which led down the hill from the village . |
| 5 | Of the suggestions that we have canvassed the one that seems to be the most promising is that which points to the emergence of classical measuring instruments from a quantum mechanical substrate , even if the mode and consistency of this happening is harder to comprehend than Copenhagen orthodoxy is willing to recognise . |
| 6 | The defendant was held liable , for the fire which did the damage was not that which broke out in the carburettor but that which spread to the car and this second or continuing fire did not ‘ accidentally ’ begin . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That will have a disastrous effect upon the locality equal to that which arose from the threat of the route . |
| 11 | This uniformity expresses that which occurs in the progress of autumn to winter , of day to night , and of fire to ashes just as the symmetry in the rhythm show light and dark . |
| 12 | The knowledge which is concentrated in government agencies is not only that which derives from the employment of professionals , scientists and technologists . |
| 13 | It 's silly things like that which get in the way of the actual show , so for the next series , I suggested a couch , low enough for me to put my arm over the back of it , but high enough to stop me sliding off on to the floor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He says that Murray always tried to help others , and it was doing just that which led to the tragedy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | No attempt should be made to allocate the proceeds of the instrument between that which relates to the liability and any other element . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The general rule was that a company could lawfully do only that which fell within the scope of the objects clause . |
| 20 | On the highest point , the beech trees of Cottington 's Clump were moving in a stronger wind than that which blew across the heather . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One of the most farcical rivalries was that which existed for a time between two groups of prisoners who earlier had been in different Oflags . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That which vibrates within the electron can be regarded as a unit of pure consciousness . |
| 25 | It will start with something like that which appears in the version set out in the New English Bible : ’ When all things began , the Word already was . ’ |
| 26 | I take as the third period that which follows upon the death or incapacity of the parents . |
| 27 | This view is similar to Hirtle 's description ( 1975 : 20 ) of the to infinitive as referring an event " to any point in time prior to its realization " , since to can be seen to evoke that which comes before the realization of the event . |
| 28 | I walk down the broadest thoroughfare on the island , that which leads to the harbour . |
| 29 | Water diffusing from internal tissues towards the outer layers of skin will not be sufficient to replace that which evaporates from the surface . |
| 30 | Of the three types of relation to practical politics which intellectuals generally , and political theorists in particular , may have , the most important for further consideration here is the second — that which consists in the interpretation of current and medium-term political trends , in the light of some general theory or conception of political life . |