Example sentences of "[prep] which [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iranian news agency IRNA reported on Oct. 3 that former Prime Minister Sa'adoun Hammadi [ for whose dismissal in September see p. 38452 ] had been involved in an attempted coup in September against President Saddam Hussein after which 76 army officers had been executed . |
| 2 | The Military Intelligence Directorate ( DIM ) was reported by the press in the capital , Caracas , as having foiled a military plot by disaffected elements in the army on Oct. 6 , after which 20 officers were reportedly summoned for questioning . |
| 3 | Bases in Martinique and Union Island between which one way charters are available and Tortola . |
| 4 | the Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries ? |
| 5 | The Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries ? |
| 6 | I said go for the obvious one Brazil question seventeen , the Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries ? |
| 7 | This was followed by the Plague during which 100,000 people died in London alone . |
| 8 | The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length . |
| 9 | The film had to be stopped for seven minutes , during which one man shouted through a loud-hailer , ‘ We , the National Front , protest against this anti-British rubbish , especially at the time of El Alamein . ’ |
| 10 | A minute 's silence was observed , during which two members of Sinn Fein left the chamber . |
| 11 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 12 | Carl Haywood , Angus Spence and Alexander Woods appeared at Teesside Crown Court following one night in Darlington last June during which two men were assaulted and a third had his car badly damaged . |
| 13 | The strike action came as the culmination of two weeks of widespread price riots and strikes by 80,000 public sector workers , during which 7,000 people were arrested and an estimated four killed , with 12 others wounded , as the Army and the police confronted protestors looting shops and markets around the country . |
| 14 | In the church where I was converted , the service began with a muffled announcement from the back , followed by a lengthy hymn during which thirty men and women in long blue dresses , white nightshirts and yellowing ruffs walked up and down the various corridors in the building singing at the top of their voices . |
| 15 | Within the ambit of the social guild work of his church , he planned a modest two-day holiday in Ambleside in June 1981 during which thirty men from his pastorate scaled the fells . |
| 16 | At the same time the BJP called a nationwide strike on Oct. 24 , during which 4,000 people were arrested and 16 killed . |
| 17 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police surrounded the bus for five hours during which three shots were fired but nobody was injured . |
| 18 | The agreement was placed in doubt by a renewed contra offensive on March 24 during which 12 Sandinista soldiers were reported killed and 12 people wounded near San Sebastian de Yalí , approximately 145 km from Managua . |
| 19 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 20 | Antonio Navarro Wolff , president of the April 19 Movement Democratic Alliance ( AD/M-19 ) , announced on May 21 that he would call on the government to hold a plebiscite on whether an amnesty should be granted to former M-19 guerrillas who had participated in an assault on the Palace of Justice in the capital , Bogotá , on Nov. 6-7 , 1985 , during which 106 people were killed [ see pp. 34152-53 ; 34804-05 ] . |
| 21 | At the same time a regional general strike took place in Rome and the Lazio region , involving 3,500,000 public employees and resulting in clashes between militant demonstrators , trade union officials and police during which 60 people were injured and about 100 arrested . |
| 22 | Secondly , there are deeper connections between care-giving and the social construction of masculine and feminine identities , as Ungerson ( 1983 ) and Graham have explored : ‘ Caring ’ becomes the category through which one sex is differentiated from the other … it becomes the defining characteristic of [ women 's ] self-identity ’ ( Graham , 1983 , p. 18 ) . |
| 23 | Leadership can essentially be described as a relationship through which one person influences the behaviour of other people . |
| 24 | The time taken to give a correct affirmative answer increases linearly with the angle through which one shape must be rotated in order to coincide with the other . |
| 25 | To assist the food and beverage manager run the department , there are between four and six assistant managers who are involved in the many and varied aspects of management — from running a food expediting line in the galley through which 1200 entrées will pass in 30 minutes , to being responsible for a small reception for some VIPs . |
| 26 | In January 1920 a conference with milk retailers agreed on a voucher scheme through which 76,764 gallons were supplied until it was decided in August , because of the continued difficulty of guaranteeing uncontaminated milk , to substitute dried milk powder . |
| 27 | Later in 1988 these units began to be joined north of the Thames by similar ( but AC current only ) units of Class 321 for use on Cambridge and Northampton services for which sixty-eight units were authorised , together with a further five similar Class 322 units for the Stansted Airport link . |
| 28 | Minton also contributed to the Arts Council 's ‘ 60 Paintings for ‘ 51 ’ exhibition , for which sixty artists had been commissioned to produce a painting at least 45″ × 60″ in size . |
| 29 | In general terms , each faculty offers an Ordinary or General degree , for which three years of study are required , and a number of degrees with honours for which four years of study are required . |
| 30 | For which two sports did Colin Moynihan win Blues at Oxford University ? |