Example sentences of "which [vb past] in the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Furthermore , in the great flowering of Viennese intellectual life which occurred in the last decade of the nineteenth century , the party contributed a galaxy of famous intellectuals — Karl Kautsky ( who , through his journal , Neue Zeit , and his role in the German party , became the most influential Marxist of his time ) , Victor Adler himself and his mentor , Carl Gruneberg , Max Adler , Otto Bauer , Rudolf Hilferding , Karl Renner etc . |
| 3 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Atkins felt that Peterborough 's first goal , which came in the first minute of the second-half , should have been disallowed because Cambridge goalkeeper John Vaughan had the ball kicked out of his hands by sliding Peterborough midfielder John McGlashan . |
| 5 | Certainly Hearts created precious few chances , and the fact their goal , which came in the 20th minute , stemmed from a blunder must have proved hard for United to swallow at a ground where they last won in 1985 . |
| 6 | Rosslyn Park , going backwards constantly and finding their defence overrun , inevitably conceded penalties , the first of which came in the fourth minute . |
| 7 | They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority . |
| 8 | This is the theory of social evolution which flourished in the nineteenth century from the stimulus of Darwin 's Origin of Species and which is most closely associated with Herbert Spencer . |
| 9 | Political uncertainty , after the Norse invasions which began in the ninth century , forced a need for protection for which services were given in exchange . |
| 10 | The latter , a uniquely interesting people distinct from all their neighbours both physically and culturally , were driven out of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin by the Russo-Japanese territorial conflicts which began in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The process of commercialization and industrialization in the newspaper industry which began in the 19th century thus continued to have an important effect on newspapers in this century as newspaper costs escalated , as new methods were developed to tap new audiences , to reach new readers , and to increase sales . |
| 12 | Modern socialism , however , is a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began in the second half of the eighteenth century : in particular to the advent of the machine and the factory , the rapid growth of population and urbanisation , the payment of low wages and the existence of sporadic unemployment , and to the kind of society which industrialisation created which was considered by many as inhuman , unjust and divisive . |
| 13 | Despite this glimpse of vintage anti-Semitic paranoia , setting the tone for the new wave of anti Jewish action and propaganda which began in the last months of 1937 and continued throughout the following year , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was scarcely touched upon in Hitler 's speeches throughout the critical year of 1938 . |
| 14 | The growth which began in the eighteenth century had made the population more youthful by 1801 ; the normal consequence of any decline in mortality and increase in fertility ( figure 2.8 ) . |
| 15 | The pride and joy of the town is the splendid castle , which originated in the 11th century and has been restored through the ages . |
| 16 | The founder of this method , which thrived in the nineteenth century , was Auguste Comte.l We will first consider the nature of Comte 's thought and then examine its development by Durkheim . |
| 17 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 18 | Blyth was formerly a medieval fishing and salt-working village known as Blyth Snook , which grew in the eighteenth century to become one of the north-east 's great coal ports . |
| 19 | Eventually Newsome came up with a super 50–50 pass back which resulted in the second goal . |
| 20 | This was a bribe-riddled deal which resulted in the first imprisonment of a former cabinet official . |
| 21 | Several new female occupations which emerged in the eighteenth century , such as the hand-decorating of china or hand printing of cottons , demanded great dexterity and control . |
| 22 | The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 23 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 24 | What Schumpeter ( 1942 ) called the ‘ march into socialism ’ seems to have slackened its pace ; and socialism , which appeared in the nineteenth century as the ideal image of an alternative society , providing an indispensable unifying element in working-class consciousness , has become in the late twentieth century a more problematic reality ( Stojanovic , 1973 ; Kolakowski and Hampshire , 1974 ; Parekh , 1975 ) . |
| 25 | Lévi-Strauss ' famous objections to Sartre , which appeared in the last chapter of The Savage Mind ( 1962 ) , are sometimes represented as if they were merely a structuralist attack on Marxism . |
| 26 | As it banked over the Cambrian Mountains , the reservoir which featured in the first party political broadcast sparkled far below . |
| 27 | The demands of Cold War politics prompted Aragon to go one step further and fabricate a fictional representation of Nizan 's treachery which had in the first instance itself been fabricated from Nizan " sown fictional productions . |
| 28 | What both opposed was a vital popular culture , which had in the eighteenth century entered on a vigorous phase . |
| 29 | In addition to the Pahlavi rugs , Persia produces workshop items in styles that have evolved from those made during the Qajar dynasty ( which ended in the 19th century ) , and there are also numerous village and nomadic groups who , allowing for some minor modifications to the market , still make rugs that have hardly changed for generations . |
| 30 | William Temple , while Archbishop of York , wrote in the York Quarterly , a journal which expired in the first year of the Second World War . |