Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 2 | The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years . |
| 3 | He kicked another stone , which went rocketing after the first one . |
| 4 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
| 5 | Berkeley 's philosophy marks the turn of the tide against the world picture which had developed in the seventeenth century , and which had reached one of its classical expositions in Locke 's Essay . |
| 6 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
| 7 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
| 8 | The new US position led to a closing of ASEAN ranks , with little evidence of the internal quarrelling over Cambodia which had surfaced at the 22nd annual meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brunei in 1989 . |
| 9 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |
| 10 | The local press , which had flourished during the last years of colonial rule , had been allowed to die . |
| 11 | Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb . |