Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The fundamental difference between the traditional City and Guilds awards and the new NVQ award is that the former were awarded by City and Guilds to students who had attended an approved course of study in a college which led to the student successfully passing the relevant City and Guilds examination .
2 Race starter Captain Keith Brown was also criticised for allowing the horses to line up too close to the start line which led to the tape twice being broken .
3 Race starter Captain Keith Brown was also criticised for allowing the horses to line up too close to the start line , which led to the tape twice being broken .
4 This wider context of the developments at university and LEA levels is necessary for an adequate understanding of the difficulties which arose in the years immediately prior to the 1939–45 war between the Cambridge Board and the District as there were serious implications for the National WEA if the District 's problems had not been resolved through protracted , patient and complex negotiations .
5 An attempt to reconcile the cases was made in Taylor Woodrow Property Co Ltd v Lonrho Textiles Ltd ( 1985 ) 275 EG 632 , where it was held that a " two-way " deeming provision ( ie which applied to both landlord and tenant ) made time of the essence , but a " one-way " deeming provision ( ie which applied to the tenant alone ) did not .
6 The progeny of mixed marriages contributed to a ‘ metisization ’ of the Russian population , the greater part of which occurred in the regions most remote from Europe .
7 There was nothing imaginary about the shooting which erupted in the street outside .
8 All I can tell you is that Winsor blue is one of the trade names for an intense blue pigment , copper phthalocyanine , which came into the palette sometime in the thirties .
9 It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today .
10 May I on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends point out that the disgraceful barracking and shouting which came from the mob opposite during the reply was clearly an exercise orchestrated by the Labour Whips ?
11 Yet yesterday 's report on the Clapham crash , confirming the picture which emerged throughout the Hidden inquiry , makes an event which seemed at the time totally unexpected look almost inevitable .
12 He had avoided it hitherto because of the stink , which wafted on the air even when there was no noticeable breeze .
13 Then a little further out blazes a great American packet ( the Roraima ) , which arrived on the scene just in time to be overwhelmed by the catastrophe .
14 My introduction to the Advanced Courses Development Programme was in the form of SCOTVEC 's Consultative Paper which arrived at the College early in 1987 .
15 It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back .
16 Calcutta 's police chief , Tushar Talukdar , said forensic scientists would decide whether the explosion , which ripped through the buildings shortly after midnight , had been caused by careless handling of a cache of explosives or by a bomb .
17 In the years which followed , some of his ships ( which belonged to the king personally ) were sold to repay his debts ; others were left so long that they eventually rotted .
18 Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held that he had erred in English domestic law , because he had misunderstood the Hoffmann-La Roche case as extending to local authorities a privilege which belonged to the Crown alone ; and furthermore that he had erred in Community law because , since it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of provisions of Community law , it was necessary to require an undertaking in damages to protect any current right which Wickes might have , by virtue of article 30 , to open their doors for Sunday trading .
19 The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza .
20 Sociologists used to operate with a model which conceived of the problem here as being one of integration .
21 He sucked slowly at his pipe and blew out a cloud of smoke which disappeared into the haze all around us .
22 That is a complete misintepretation of the original evidence , which related to the period immediately prior to Vanguard 's first refit .
23 ‘ It was a truly excellent service and a great team effort which resulted in the crew coolly and professionally saving the casualties . ’
24 ‘ It was a truly excellent service and a great team effort , which resulted in the crew coolly and professionally saving the casualties . ’
25 In the early decades of this century the diverse private welfare organizations ( freie Verbände ) began to firm up their organizational structures which resulted in the founding around 1920 of the major welfare organizations which dominate the German welfare landscape today : Side by side with the Protestant ‘ Innere Mission ’ and the Catholic ‘ Caritas ’ , which date back to the nineteenth century , and the Jewish central welfare association ( Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden , 1917 ) there developed the secular welfare associations of the labour movement ( Arbeiterwohlfahrt , 1919 ) — despite the socialist principle of the primacy of public welfare ! — of the German Red Cross , and of the independent hospitals and nursing institutions ( today called the ‘ Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ’ ) .
26 The rest of provision the rest of the , of the movement are things like provisions which increased during the year much smaller number .
27 Both the Keynes effect and the real-balance effect were to form the essential ingredients of the professional consensus which emerged in the years following the publication of the General Theory known as the neo-classical synthesis .
28 She looked out of the big foyer window , which ran from the floor almost to the ceiling , at the empty pathways and the silent buildings outside .
29 Thus , if the taxpayer can show that in year 1 he had been assessed under s739 on the £100,000 which accrued to the trust then the trustees are able either in that year or in subsequent years to pay the monies out without any tax charge under s742(2) ( c ) .
30 Mildred rushed to the washroom and seized the bucket which stood under the window there to catch drips from the leak in the ceiling .
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