Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 32 | His theory required him to specify a reason why the human branch of the evolutionary tree had advanced so much further than those which led to the living apes . |
| 33 | In the second half it was pretty much a similar story , Leeds pressing from the start , then a Soton injury , then a lovely classy move which led to the first goal . |
| 34 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 35 | There was one last wave as they crossed the stone bridge before swinging away right , up the long gentle pull which led to the first draw . |
| 36 | The shock of the change of circumstances was sufficiently numbing to dampen any inclination to run riot , particularly after the painful build up of events which led to the final arrest . |
| 37 | It was the criticisms of costs and complexity in small claims , put most convincingly by the Consumer Council in Justice Out of Reach , which led to the procedural reforms of the early 1970s . |
| 38 | Happily , she is now flying again , the rather unusual engine fault which led to the premature landing now rectified . |
| 39 | At dinner that night we were discussing the whole affair and I said : " Oh well , you ca n't make an omelette without breaking some eggs , " which led to the classic retort from Ed Prior , my engineer : " Yes , but you did n't have to break the whisk ! " |
| 40 | It was the pointy headstock revolution which led to the wide usage of scarf jointing , as the thinner necks which went with such guitars were prone to breaking behind the nut , where the headstock pitched back but the wood grain did n't follow it . |
| 41 | It was this kind of objection which led to the influential doctrine of falsification and the conception of the hypothetico-deductive model of explanation which is sketched below . |
| 42 | It was the failure of this attempt which led to the gradual expansion of the regular police into rural areas in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 43 | However , and with great irony , it was the Government 's cuts which led to the virtual abandonment of the Council 's housing policy since the Council decided that whereas it was cheaper to service houses in groups , it was even cheaper and perhaps even permissible not to provide them with certain expensive services at all . |
| 44 | Thus , the intellectual climate was transformed by refugees from the failed Paris Commune , and from Spain , Italy and Germany , who had brought with them their socialistic education , which led to the general practice of mutual aid among the immigrants — a practice little known to the people of Argentina' ( Juan Justo , in Aguilar : 1968 , p. 79 ) . |
| 45 | The first is that , with the consumer being the main culprit in the spending boom which led to the current difficulties , there is a case for shifting the tax burden from industry to individuals . |
| 46 | The reasons which led to the Civil War of 1642 – 48 are explained , and the parts Chepstow and its lord played in it are outlined . |
| 47 | It was his publication in 1763 of what the courts decided to be a seditious libel on George III which led to the judicial decision that general warrants were illegal ( see p. 136 ) . |
| 48 | From our mooring at the pier , panting in the heat , we walked up a long steep , straight track , which led to the main village where accommodation in private houses was to be allocated ; there were no hotels or pensiones . |
| 49 | The circumstances which led to the inconclusive ballot result lend some credence to this . |
| 50 | A serving-maid to all intents and purposes , she had presented herself at the door which gave access to the rear stairs , the garden stairs , which led to the royal apartments . |
| 51 | In 1949 another financial crisis occurred which led to the massive devaluation of the pound against the dollar from $4.00 to $2.80 [ Cairncross and Eichengreen , 1983 ] . |
| 52 | Few men have been able to resist their strength and beauty , and at one time would congregate at the base of the zigzag path which led to the French village of Faye , hoping for a glimpse . |
| 53 | Revisionist work in this area is less advanced than on the events of 1917 itself , but it has begun to unravel the process which led to the rapid breakdown of the broad popular alliance of October , the metamorphosis of the Bolshevik party , and the transformation in the nature of its power . |
| 54 | It was that speculation and accompanying doubts about the ability of the private practitioner to meet this need which led to the rapid growth of interest in alternative means of providing legal advice . |
| 55 | It was Stalin 's unfortunate deviation which led to the whole series of attempts by Western European Marxists to return-to-Marx — the major examples in France being Sartre and Althusser , and in Germany the Frankfurt School . |
| 56 | Perhaps the son was a traitor or a criminal , which led to the exciting possibility of civil wars in later reigns . |
| 57 | The flowering of Serbian national culture which occurred in the late eighteenth century and which led to the national awakening and later re-establishment of a Serbian state , owes much to the Orthodox monasteries in Fruška Gora . |
| 58 | There were also moments of aggravated political violence — whether clashes between hunger marchers and the police , bitter street-fights between fascists and anti-fascists which led to the Public Order Act of 1936 , or accusations and counter-accusations about ‘ political hooliganism ’ when public meetings were broken up , as they frequently were . |
| 59 | Two of us decided to walk along the road which led to the public causeway and another , even larger , pool . |
| 60 | Once over the stile he was soon amongst the hawthorn and gorse and on the track which led to the little hut ; he was doing as Alfred must have done two days earlier . |