Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Dartmoor was used by the inhabitants of both Devon and Cornwall until AD 850 , after which date common rights began to develop for the Moor , protecting the rights of all but the people of Barnstaple and Totnes ( who were excluded after AD 900 ) , while allowing the area to be hunted by the Wessex kings . |
2 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
3 | Congested city graveyards soon acquired very different associations from those about which Kilvert rhapsodised . |
4 | Where I talk about sites specific is to get down to this nitty gritty about which comes first , the erm inquiry or the erm planning consent . |
5 | It had a little courtyard off which led three simple , whitewashed rooms . |
6 | A further single-flight stair , in this instance incorporating winding treads at its base , discharges on to the large second-floor landing , off which radiate all four bedrooms ( Fig 56 ) . |
7 | Before they reached the towering stack of containers , between which ran innumerable alleyways where no faint light penetrated , they came upon a series of deck hatches . |
8 | — Despite arguments to the contrary ( Duporte , 1965 ; Matsuda , 1970 ) , it may be supposed that the thoracic terga consisted primitively of three simple segmental plates ( the nota ) between which lay small intersegmental sclerites ( Snodgrass , 1927 ) . |
9 | The findings suggest that the period during which developed human society has flourished may be a time of unusual stability . |
10 | But it is very lately that the truly magnificent taste in gardening has flourished in these northern parts of Europe , for although in King Charles the Second 's reign there was great spirit amongst the nobility and gentry of England for planting and gardening , which spirit was greatly heighten 'd in King William 's reign , during which time most of the large gardens of England were laid out and planted , yet we find the taste at that time extended little farther than to small pieces of box-wood , finish 'd parterres and clipp 'd greens , all of which are now generally banished out of the gardens of the most polite persons of this age , who justly prefer the more extended rural designs of gardens which approach the nearest to nature . |
11 | Banbury offered a bright and clear window through which to view national developments across the 1960s , and into the 1970s . |
12 | It was a hell of leaping flames through which darted black figures . |
13 | The general layout and fine pavements give the site all the appearance of a rich villa , but it has been built on a levelled shelf of tufa , through which flow vigorous streams from nearby springs . |
14 | They have therefore left us with an unusually rich source of material through which to examine several questions about psychosis and creativity already raised , but as yet unanswered , in this and the previous chapter . |
15 | A TV screen is a dangerous medium through which to judge any sport , particularly boxing . |
16 | To the world at large , the Sultanate of Oman attracts attention for its strategic position guarding the Straits of Hormuz through which passes fifty per cent of the world 's oil supplies . |
17 | If the intellectual lead in the area of biology gradually switched to Germany in the course of the mid-century , Paris had already established the ideal framework through which to promote scientific research into animals and plants . |
18 | Even when , sixteen years later in 1833 , he saw in trade unionism the instrument through which to establish industrial democracy , the change was to be painless , to steal upon the country unaware , ‘ like a thief in the night ’ . |
19 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
20 | Lastly , its own functions as a bank combined with its size and its relationship to the government provide a third channel through which to influence financial markets . |
21 | Oil consumers , whether directly or indirectly concerned , concentrated their attention on the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf , through which flowed some 20 per cent of the oil supplies of the world outside the CPEs and which shifted into sharp focus as the war intensified . |
22 | Amphibious raiding along the Channel coast and elsewhere became a coordinated intelligence gathering operation in preparation for the opening of a Second Front by the invasion of Europe , plans for which entailed amphibious training for large armies , pre-empting men and equipment from possible large raids . |
23 | McCallen 's next outing will be the Isle of Man TT , practice for which begins next week . |
24 | They are very useful for spraying large areas or inaccessible or elevated surfaces for which purpose some spray wands can be fitted with extensions of up to 2 metres . |
25 | A comprehensive trouble-shooting guide is given opposite which summarises most problems that arise . |
26 | The twice yearly honours lists are the ones which attract most attention , but there is another raft of honours in the gift of Downing Street , some of which reflect professional excellence and others which confer real power and influence : jobs . |
27 | Judging by site alone , 83 per cent could be due to venous disorders , and 10 per cent to arterial insufficiency — a disproportionate number of which affected male patients . |
28 | There is a recurrent failure not only to ground the subject fully in its historical context , but also to propose an adequate theoretical model by means of which to assess socialist realist literature . |
29 | I have become aware of three stages , all three of which deserve equal attention and time spent on them . |
30 | The Ulster majority was humiliated and alarmed , but its immediate emotions were channelled into a two-day general strike and Peaceful protest rallies , one of which attracted 100,000 people . |