Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Aberdeen , Dundee , and St Andrews were among those which expanded rapidly in the early 1970's , whilst Strathclyde was established in 1965 , and its Department of Applied Geology grew out of the Mining Department of one of the Colleges which merged to form the University . |
| 15 | A good example can be found in a discussion group of civil servants , academics and penal reformers which met regularly throughout the 1980s . |
| 16 | Mr McNally then asked him to indicate to the court any evidence which arose out of the two interviews held yesterday . |
| 17 | They were awarded damages for this loss of ordinary business which arose naturally from the late delivery . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Like Auerbach a scholar of Germanic origins who finished his career in the United States , Spitzer developed , in contrast to him , a method of stylistic analysis which concentrated firmly on the individual text . |
| 22 | The Election of 1705 , for example , which occurred shortly after the unsuccessful attempt to tack the Occasional Conformity Bill to the Land Tax Bill , was fought largely over the issue of the Church in Danger , and produced a series of bitter contests throughout the country . |
| 23 | Particular attention is being paid to the major Indian rebellions which occurred there in the late colonial period ( 1780 and 1814 ) , to the role of southern Peru in the overthrow of Spanish rule ( in 1824 ) , and to political , social , and economic developments in the first three decades after independence . |
| 24 | The Dwarfs advanced in battle formation fully expecting an attack from the steep mountain slopes which towered ominously above the old Dwarf road . |
| 25 | At a meeting on Aug. 29 Gorbachev and Yeltsin endorsed a plan produced by the commission which drew heavily on the Russian " 500 days " programme . |
| 26 | Other reservoir possibilities are offered by the great variety of sandstone facies of the Late Carboniferous deltas which prograded southwards across the Dinantian carbonate platform . |
| 27 | Homicide , on the other hand , is interpreted as a consequence of distinctive aspects of Sinhalese culture which changed little during the colonial period . |
| 28 | Boyd Orr 's malnourished population was drawn almost entirely from this section of the working class and it was their lives which changed little during the inter-war years as Carl Chinn , and other writers have noted . |
| 29 | Parts of the rudder which sank away from the main hull corroded as could be expected , so the answer must lie with the hull itself . |
| 30 | The pre-Maastricht debates offered a field-day for this sort of claim , which surfaced again in the general-election campaign , on this occasion as an anti-Labour weapon . |