Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | • 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Webster 's resignation came only a month after a fire in the US embassy in Moscow , which apparently led to the loss of computer disks and other sensitive material when Soviet firefighters , possibly including State Security ( KGB ) agents , were allowed to move unescorted through parts of the building . |
| 18 | He had imposed heavy and illegal exactions upon the forest dwellers , prevented the men of the royal demesnes from having their customary rights of housebote and haybote , and taken for himself the dues for escapes of cattle and other animals in the forest , which rightly belonged to the king . |
| 19 | Associated with the growth of the proletariat in the towns of feudal times were other processes which together led to the concentration of the means of production in ever-fewer hands , a process which ultimately led to the capitalism of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 21 | This came about through the fact that although Mondrian made use of the Cubist grid-system of Composition , he had already begun to develop a new form of painting which finally culminated during the war in the purely abstract idiom of De Stijl and Neo-Plasticism . |
| 22 | They arrived at the restaurant , were shown to a table , handed menus and started a reasonably convivial conversation either about Ken 's rearend , the radio show or about Pieces of Eight which finally closed in the autumn of 1960 . |
| 23 | They thought of the movies as a mechanical novelty , a meaningless and trivial craze which might be allowed to provide a moment 's distraction at a music-hall or vaudeville show but which normally belonged to the amusement arcade or fairground . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough hit back with a 25-yard shot by Jimmy Phillips which just went over the bar . |
| 25 | The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across . |
| 26 | The sovereign 's power to debase the currency has passed to the commercial banks and so has the seigniorage which once accrued to the state . |
| 27 | And there was an almost disastrous end for this 1913 American motorbike , which once belonged to the actor , Steve McQueen … |
| 28 | Such large quantities of water have been diverted for irrigation of the crop that the rivers which once ran into the sea no longer reach it . |
| 29 | The old divorce laws which once sat on the statute books were viewed with contempt even by many of those who made their living from them . |
| 30 | Magnificent is the fine stone canopy which once stood over the tomb of Bishop Lucianus by Matěj Rejsek , 1493 . |