Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 2 | Val had said ) which operated from the British Museum , to which Ash 's wife , Ellen , had given many of the manuscripts of his poems , when he died . |
| 3 | The Somali Patriotic Movement , which operated in the southern Ogaden , in November 1989 agreed to co-operate with the SNM . |
| 4 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 5 | The dispute between , on the one side , the News International newspapers ( Sun and News of the World ) , the Times Group ( The Times and The Sunday Times ) and others , and , on the other side , the unions ( SOGAT 82 , the NGA and others ) which centred on the new site at Wapping , followed the breakdown of negotiations and the dismissal of all those on strike . |
| 6 | Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres visited Japan on Dec. 14-17 , for talks which centred on the Middle East peace process . |
| 7 | It was a picture — a picture of a pearl necklace that my mother used to have , which lived inside the little drawer on her dressing-table , in its own special case lined with black velvet . |
| 8 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 9 | I shall return to this point later , but must first record how matters went in the Divisional Court , omitting for present purposes any reference to an alternative ground of relief concerning the Director 's refusal to wait whilst the applicant pursued his application for legal aid , which failed in the Divisional Court and was not renewed on appeal . |
| 10 | The skeletal trees that grew close to the chapel rattled their branches in the wind , which whipped across the open ground . |
| 11 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 12 | It was held that an offence under that section had been committed where the accumulation emitted offensive odours which interfered with the personal comfort of persons living in the neighbourhood , but did not cause injury to health . |
| 13 | The provision of permanent waters led everywhere to overgrazing and consequent soil erosion , and veterinary quarantine regulations which interfered with the free movement of cattle both within and into and out of the reserves almost certainly contributed to the spread of tsetse fly which occurred during the colonial period . |
| 14 | The most fundamental need was to increase the area of water by the provision and enlargement of wet-docks and basins , the total acreage of which doubled over the last quarter of the eighteenth century as a prelude to a much greater expansion between 1800 and 1830 . |
| 15 | He had the choice of half-a-dozen alleys which led off the main street and climbed to the terraces . |
| 16 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |
| 17 | She followed a makeshift , stepping-stone path , through a rapidly deepening quagmire of mud which led to the front door , and knocked loud and firm upon the solid oak panels . |
| 18 | We 're lucky , outsiders like me , in that we 've got the Franks Report on the origins of the war , which covers the seventeen-year build-up , the era of non-decision-taking almost , which led to the Argentine invasion of 1982 . |
| 19 | Gently nosing the car down the hill into the village , he turned off the road into the gravelled drive which led to the eighteenth-century stone barn . |
| 20 | The same impulse which led to the Great Exhibition of 1851 also led to the founding of the School of Mines , following the French , and of the Royal College of Chemistry , which was intended to bring Liebig 's methods to Britain . |
| 21 | In order to prove the commercial value of his coal reserves in the Rhondda valley , he initiated steps to show that the steam coal of the valley lay at exploitable depths , an act which led to the astounding growth of the Rhondda . |
| 22 | It may have been this subjective judicial approach which led to the strange result in Attwood . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Happily , she is now flying again , the rather unusual engine fault which led to the premature landing now rectified . |
| 29 | 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 ! " |
| 30 | 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 . |