Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases of this kind ( which rarely come before the Court of Appeal except on appeal against sentence ) , the last act of the provoker , even though minor in itself , may be placed in the context of the previous provocation , and may itself be treated as sufficient to show that the loss of self-control was ‘ sudden and temporary ’ . |
| 2 | The duty arises from the real concern that management may benefit from an opportunity which properly belongs to the company and its shareholders . |
| 3 | Instead , bloated catalogues bulged with inferior stock and works which properly belonged in the routine day sales and had been promoted in order to provide ballast for the smarter evening sessions . |
| 4 | • These days she 's pretty much engaged in an acting career , although she did turn up in John Waters ' Hairspray in 1988 to render Barbara Lynn Ozen 's title song , which duly appeared on the soundtrack album . |
| 5 | Suitably armed , the Princess felt confident enough to write a long and detailed rejoinder to her irate father-in-law which effectively spelled out the way she felt she had been treated by husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 6 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 7 | Neither of these units were encountered in Newmill-l , which presumably terminated above the volcanics ; the absence of the Magnesian Limestone and Permian salt is attributed to faulting . |
| 8 | Early television sets , when you turned them off , used to leave a blob of light in the middle of the screen , which slowly diminished from the size of a florin to an expiring speck . |
| 9 | It was here that disenchantment with the liberalism of the New Deal and its successor the Great Society began setting in , which eventually culminated in the landslide victories for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s . |
| 10 | The failure of this ‘ mechanical speech ’ approach ( which eventually led to the development of speech synthesis by rule ) has many lessons to teach us about pronunciation teaching and learning , and it will be useful , in looking at connected speech , to bear in mind the difference between the way humans speak and what would be found in ‘ mechanical speech ’ . |
| 11 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
| 12 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
| 13 | Ever since 1914 , when the great majority of the leaders of social democratic parties in Europe supported the war effort of their own nation states — under a variety of influences , one of which was undoubtedly the nationalist fervour of the peoples involved — the capacity of the socialist movement to bring about a new kind of political relationship among the peoples of the world has seemed more questionable ; and the doubts have multiplied not only as a result of the course taken by the revolution in Russia , culminating in the project of building ‘ socialism in one country ’ , which eventually led to the identification of socialism with the national interests of the Soviet Union , but also in the light of the actual relations that developed between the communist countries in the postwar period . |
| 14 | It was in this capacity that Le Duc Tho conducted secret negotiations in the early 1970s with Henry Kissinger , US President Nixon 's National Security Adviser , which eventually led to the signing of the 1973 Paris agreements . |
| 15 | In late 1959 Goleniewski had given MI5 enough information to identify Harry Houghton , who worked at the Admiralty 's underwater research laboratory at Portland , which eventually led to the exposure of the Portland spy ring . |
| 16 | First , although it was a serious issue which eventually led to the introduction of the Public Order Act in 1936 , such violence was only a pale reflection of the conflict which led to the growth of fascism in Italy and Germany in the inter-war period . |
| 17 | Further down the chain of linked processes , are all the activities which eventually result in the provision of the product to the final consumer . |
| 18 | Troops storm the Sikh stronghold of the Golden Temple , causing widespread resentment which eventually issues in the assassination of Indira Gandhi . |
| 19 | These successive submarine eruptions built up layers of material which eventually emerged above the ocean 's surface as a small island , and coral reefs formed around its edge . |
| 20 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 21 | Trudge up this to find a well-defined narrow path which eventually leads to the south-east face of the crag . |
| 22 | They had allowed others to commit waste and make assarts ; they had embezzled fines which rightfully belonged to the king , taken large sums for the agistment of animals in the Forest pastures so as to overburden them , and illegally kept unlawed dogs . |
| 23 | Bone is a living tissue which constantly adapts to the body 's changing requirements . |
| 24 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 25 | Galatians 3 , 28 is quoted : ‘ There is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus ’ as though sexual differences were subsumed in a common humanity which alone counts in the scheme of redemption . |
| 26 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |
| 27 | ‘ We have strong reservations , ’ it says in its response to the document , ‘ about the usefulness of information contained in accounts which only relate to the activity of a branch in an economic entity . |
| 28 | Some harbour resentments going back many years , which only come to the surface when a crisis causes the couple to come for counselling . |
| 29 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 30 | It has become commonplace to observe that the precious yet precarious Churchill Ian , stiff-upper-lip culture which only materializes in the midst of national adversity — underneath the arches , down in the air-raid shelters where Britannia enjoyed her finest hours — is something from which blacks are excluded . |