Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [prep] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Witcombe reservoirs ( where the Horsebere originates ) opened around 1860 and were responsible for depleting the water supply to the mill , which eventually led to its downfall . |
| 2 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 3 | For example , in one story , an organisation required a new item to go through some 270 checks before production , which understandably cut into its capacity to innovate . |
| 4 | There seems to be no way in which the human race can bring about the civilisation of its members without using to some degree that same power of evolution which inevitably needed for its effect the imposition of some measure of discomfort , pain or unhappiness in some form or other . |
| 5 | This was Hinkley Point , an industrial complex on the Somerset coast which already housed two nuclear power stations , and which proudly boasted in its publicity that it was ‘ Britain 's biggest ’ . |
| 6 | Dennis Hopper , meanwhile , was resurrecting his own very personal project , The Last Movie , which again had as its theme an attack on the great American Dream . |
| 7 | Shares in Grampian , which recently failed in its bid for chemist group Macarthy , fell 9 to 163p yesterday after it announced a 15 p.c. drop in pre-tax profit to £11.2m in a tough year for its retail and sports goods activities . |