Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUIDING deputies with a firm hand , President Gorbachev yesterday got his way at the opening session of Congress , which duly voted against a proposal by the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko to discuss the Communist Party 's monopoly of power . |
| 2 | In late April 1991 Lee signed a document declaring the end of the " Period of Mobilization for the Suppression of the Communist Rebellion " , which effectively brought to an end more than four decades of " civil war " between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland . |
| 3 | Near him was a door which presumably led to a room beyond . |
| 4 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 5 | Then Clare took her by the elbow and led her along the path which suddenly went through a gate and stopped . |
| 6 | The outer room contained two wash-hand basins with a paper towel dispenser and , to the left of the door , a long Formica-covered counter with a glass above it which apparently served as a dressing-table . |
| 7 | A news item in 1988 concerning a 590cm. ( approximately 19ft. ) long pilot whale washed up at Talland Bay recalls other sea mammals washed up on our coastline , one of which apparently qualified for a church burial . |
| 8 | Any possibility of this , he concluded , was ruled out by the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 which finally brought to an end the provisions of the Navigation Acts , ( already repealed in other respects in 1849 ) that all seamen on coasting vessels , and three-quarters of crews on ships in foreign trade , were to be British . |
| 9 | The someone , who was , of course , Dr Neil , struck a Swan Vesta to light the oil-lamp which always stood on a side-table where he usually kept the book which he was currently reading . |
| 10 | A little museum in Broadbank helps to tell the history of the town and right at the door is placed the Blue-stone : an enormous boulder which once stood on a street corner in the town and is thought to have been brought here by the Scandinavian ice flow . |
| 11 | A RollsRoyce tourer , built for Lord Astor in 1935 but which also served as a machine gun carrier in the Second World War and later as a hearse , is among classic cars gathering at Duncombe Park , near Helmsley on Sunday . |
| 12 | They were in the hallway which also served as a reception area for the hotel and Hope raised his voice to include as many eavesdroppers as possible in his private conversation with the landlord . |
| 13 | A police car was stoned by onlookers as it chased a stolen car which later crashed into a lampost . |
| 14 | Consideration was given to living there , but the thought of sixty bedrooms and only one bathroom was too much Legend has it that the place was once so deprived of modern conveniences that drinking water would sometimes be collected by a footman with a silver pitcher from a stream flowing in front of the main door which originally served as a moat . |
| 15 | This can be seen clearly in the medieval illustrations of post-mills which originally rested on a kind of wooden tripod . |
| 16 | The pathologist had finished with Maurice 's body , which now lay in a chapel of rest in Maidenhead , awaiting a decision on when and where the funeral was to be held . |
| 17 | Through her hair , which now lay in a tangle about her face , she saw a pair of long legs flex . |
| 18 | Hope walked rapidly from the outlying church towards Keswick which now seemed like a net , dropped on him when he was unaware , leaving him pinioned … |
| 19 | All through the pages of Ramakrishna 's biography appears his gentle humour which often acted as a prelude to his flights of ecstasy . |
| 20 | In the last stages of composition , after the destruction of the ‘ society ’ names , ‘ De Bailhache , Fresca , Mrs. Cammel ’ , Eliot amended his original version , adding some lines which surely came as a result of his meeting with Peters : |
| 21 | Folly lashed the aggressor over the head with her roses — which immediately disintegrated in a hail of scented petals . |
| 22 | As I look back to my inner training in prayer , I see an early stage when it consisted of asking God 's blessing on myself and those I loved , then through a stage of mental meditation , and finally a merging into contemplation , which did not need words , but a silent awareness of the presence of God , which sometimes continued for a quarter of an hour or more . |
| 23 | No accident that the preceding round of fashion for women had emphasized the breasts ( which virtually disappeared as a fashion accessory in the sixties ) . |
| 24 | From this , the idea was derived of ‘ patchwork pieces ’ , which then led to a demand for specific colours in the bags , ’ ‘ and suddenly we realized we had created a bit of a monster . ’ |
| 25 | Merton itself , as a result of Silverman 's experience in selection , advertising and research , was first conceived as a high-level recruitment consultancy which then evolved into a management consultancy and executive search practice ; he based his approach — ahead of its time in Britain in the mid-1970s — on the concept of building up a profile of ‘ the ideal candidate ’ by using the most sophisticated industrial market research techniques , approaching a recruitment programme in the same way as he had devised and implemented a marketing plan . |
| 26 | The revelations of Watergate shook the confidence of many Americans in their entire political system , which almost ground to a halt in the 18 months before Nixon 's resignation . |
| 27 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 28 | The assembly was the first to be held since April 1987 , when Mahathir had narrowly survived a leadership challenge , a contest which subsequently led to a split within the party [ see pp. 35459 ; 35773 ; 36657 ] . |
| 29 | The assembly was the first to be held since 1987 when Mahathir narrowly survived a leadership challenge from Razaleigh , a contest which subsequently led to a split within UMNO . |