Example sentences of "which [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Militarily stronger by ten to one , Israel made Abdallah agree to an armistice in April 1949 whereby he ceded thirty villages in and near Wadi Ara , in the area which became known inside Israel as the Little Triangle . |
| 2 | A look at this shy and distinctive creature which has lived in Britain for thousands of years and featured in many favourite stories but is rarely seen in its natural habitat . |
| 3 | It is , I think , the logical conclusion of the line in Enlightenment thought which has run from Rousseau through Nietzsche and Sartre — the strand of truly anarchic individualist thinking which avoids the vulgar Nozickian ‘ libertarian ’ path of concentrating on the freedom of certain selected institutions such as commercial companies , and genuinely exalts only the freedom of the individual . |
| 4 | He starts repairing and expanding the ancient network of standing stones which has stood upon Ulthuan since the dawn of time . |
| 5 | On the face of it there are more contrasts than resemblances between , for example , the brand of empirical and then linguistic philosophy which has predominated in England in recent decades , the existentialist thought which has led the way in western Europe , and the critical reflection on human history and society on a broadly Marxist basis which has naturally held sway in communist countries , but more recently come more to the fore in the west as well . |
| 6 | The preoccupation with providing for widows is one outcome of the high marriage rate for women which has persisted in Britain since World War 11 . |
| 7 | The main threats to the forecast lie in the outlook for world trade , which has worsened since November as Germany and Japan turn down , the burden of domestic debt continues , and the effects of German policies on the European Community remain adverse . |
| 8 | However , it did not prevent , in the winter of 1921–2 , an appalling famine afflicting the southern districts of the Ukraine , ‘ the worst ’ , a League of Nations report declared , ‘ both as regards the numbers affected and as regards the mortality from starvation and disease which has occurred in Europe in modern times ’ . |
| 9 | Japan 's devastation of a country which had lost to Namibia on the eve of the World Cup was noting less than a scandal and a disgrace to international rugby . |
| 10 | Hellenistic culture interfered with the parallel developments of individual cultures which had extended from China to Greece in previous centuries . |
| 11 | A political storm which had developed in September around the proposed sale of 35 small islands in the Bay of Argolis and the Saronic Gulf abated after a government official , Byron Polydoras , on Oct. 14 assured journalists that the proposals had been that " certain rocky islets " should be leased — not sold — " on a long-term basis for tourist development " . |
| 12 | They were helped by trends of thought which had developed in Greece in the fourth century . |
| 13 | These reflected the extraordinary complexity of the political situation which had developed in Yugoslavia during the years of the German occupation , when different ethnic , religious and political groups had formed shifting alliances , according to whether their main enemy at any time had seemed to be the occupying Germans or Tito 's partisans working to establish a Socialist state in post-war Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | Once baptised in the fiery power of the Spirit which had been in Jesus , the disciples at once interpret it as the fulfilment of Joel 's prophecy about the availability of the Spirit in the last days , and proclaim the good news to the representative crowd from ‘ every nation under heaven ’ which had gathered in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost ( 2:16ff ) . |
| 15 | At the same time he went through all books which had appeared in England on these sciences . |
| 16 | That year , therefore , saw the re-establishment of a principle which had existed in Scotland for centuries , namely ‘ the arrangement by which the formation of the records is committed to one set of officers and the custody of them to another ’ ( Conveyancing Lectures , Menzies , 2nd Edn , 1856 , p 165 ) . |
| 17 | In a general election on May 9 , 1987 , the Nationalist Party narrowly defeated the Labour Party which had governed in Malta for the previous 16 years . |
| 18 | Four days later the Military Council , which had ruled in Georgia since the flight of Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January [ see pp. 38731-32 ] , transferred its legislative and executive powers to a newly created State Council of which Shevardnadze was to be the chair . |
| 19 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 20 | Marshall suggested that a quarter of all the acid rain which had fallen on Norway in the previous century had come from Britain . |
| 21 | Dubcek faced calls from right-wing forces for his resignation as Assembly Chairman in view of his " practical support " for the opposition party Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , a group which had split from VPN in March 1991 [ see p. 38106 ] . |
| 22 | Underground groups which had operated inside Kuwait against the Iraqi forces issued demands for political reform which mirrored calls made by exiled opposition leaders . |
| 23 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 24 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 25 | Of meetings which had begun in London in 1645 , the mathematician John Wallis could say : These remarks indicate the scope that existed by the mid-seventeenth century for differentiation between the sciences . |
| 26 | The shambling uprising of anti-war Guevara-dreamers which had begun in Cambridge in October 1967 with a demonstration against Harold Wilson , leading to some skirmishing with police , had spread through the universities of the country . |
| 27 | Fighting which had begun in August between Georgian troops and Abkhazian separatists in the autonomous region of Abkhazia threatened in September to draw Russia into conflict with Georgia . |
| 28 | He had reportedly criticized the kingdom 's policies in his Friday prayer sermons , opposed the presence of US troops , and put his name to a collective letter by a group of Moslem clerics to the country 's supreme theologian , Sheikh Abdel-Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz , expressing opposition to the US-sponsored Middle East peace conference which had begun in Madrid in October 1991 . |
| 29 | By comparison , the death toll during the period of unrest which had begun in Soweto in June 1976 [ see pp. 27886-88 ] and had lasted until October 1977 , had been 700 . |
| 30 | The new law , passed by the US Senate on Sept. 20 [ see p. 39090 ] and the House of Representatives on Oct. 2 , made it illegal for the subsidiaries of US companies based anywhere in the world to trade with Cuba , and closed US ports to any ship which had called in Cuba within the previous six months . |