Example sentences of "which [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 2 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the busy life which goes on in the unconscious profoundly affects our feelings and reactions in our conscious , outer life . |
| 4 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 5 | This is a process which goes back to the two questions raised on page 66 : |
| 6 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 7 | By contrast , regions which lose out in the early development will see even their initial potential undermined relative to the growth-regions . |
| 8 | J. S. Raworth , who was a director of both , invented a system of regenerative control , by which a car descending a steep hill , could use its motors as brakes and generate current which passed back into the overhead wires to be used by other cars ascending . |
| 9 | Yet the point , it 's a question really , which refers back to the last programme summary three , of the , the ninety four , ninety five base budget . |
| 10 | The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge . |
| 11 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 12 | The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park . |
| 13 | There was a small garden in front of the house , and she hurried along the crazy-paving path which led up to the gabled front porch . |
| 14 | ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem . |
| 15 | Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney . |
| 16 | Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support . |
| 17 | The British presence was much more persistent and important during the long negotiations which led up to the Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 . |
| 18 | This appeal concerns the four younger children , although the two elder boys played a part in the events which led up to the present situation . |
| 19 | So Lewis drove down to the bottom of South Parks Road , where he was ushered through into the University Parks by a policeman on duty at the entrance to the single-track road which led down to the bathing area . |
| 20 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 21 | Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board . |
| 22 | Mr McNally then asked him to indicate to the court any evidence which arose out of the two interviews held yesterday . |
| 23 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 24 | The name Mývatn means ‘ midge lake ’ and the principal reason the lake supports a large population of birds and fish is the astronomical numbers of chironomid and simuliid larvae which hatch out in the clear water . |
| 25 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |
| 26 | From the terrace of the house , grimed with soot and wind , one looked down into a grey , fogged landscape of endless slate-roofed ‘ back-to-backers ’ and soaring mills throbbing with trundling looms , glittering with acres of lighted windows ( dark in the black-out after 3.30 in the afternoon ) , and huge chimneys trailing and belching smoke endlessly into the curdled air , which loitered out over the spoiled valleys until , eventually , it was dispersed across the distant moors . |
| 27 | The surface of each of the dendrites which branch out from the neuronal cell body is covered with synapses — perhaps up to ten thousand in all — arising from the other neurons which thus make contact with them . |
| 28 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
| 29 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 30 | Many areas have special schemes which fit in with the particular needs of individual people at home . |