Example sentences of "which [vb past] them [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 2 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 3 | Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage . |
| 4 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 5 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 6 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 7 | The wherry shot under London Bridge where the water boiled between the closely built arches , the boatmen dipping their oars so the boats could squeeze by the starlings which protected them against the thick stone arches . |
| 8 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 9 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
| 10 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 11 | In 1550 three London gentlemen paid £18,744 11 2d , which entitled them to an annual income of £939 2 5½d from the various properties . |