Example sentences of "[prep] which [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting from Birkdale Summit , an initial detour may be made to look into the open shaft of Jingling Pot nearby , after which a pathless course must be steered south-west across tedious grass to reach and climb the rough slopes building up to the Edge . |
| 2 | The improvements made in the machines to date do not seem as though they ought to have added up to much , but they appear to have allowed the crossing of a psychological threshold , after which a rich harvest of human error becomes accessible . |
| 3 | Exploratory talks were held in Beijing on in November and December [ see pp. 37860 ; 37818 ] , after which a first round of full normalization talks was held in Pyongyang in late January 1991 and a second in Tokyo in mid-March [ see p. 38098 ] . |
| 4 | According to Rivers 1964 , in the audio-lingual method , grammar is presented first through the drilling of structures , after which a simple generalisation is made about the grammatical principle involved . |
| 5 | Fasting was maintained for a further 2 hours , after which a normal diet was permitted . |
| 6 | It passed the 1000 mark in 1919 and the number climbed steadily to just over 2000 in 1923 , after which a rapid decline set in . |
| 7 | It is the Select Committee system , which can report to the House , after which a full debate can take place . |
| 8 | Unless the centre or SCOTVEC identifies a need for an earlier date , a contract will operate for a fixed period , after which a further Quality Audit will take place . |
| 9 | The format , too , followed last year 's by being an all day event starting with enjoyable classes given by Ann Langford and Chris Markham , after which an appetizing ploughman 's lunch was served at flower-decked tables , efficiently organised by Phyl Bailey and Anne Weathers , ably supported by their class members . |
| 10 | Support can be coerced for only so long , after which an acceptable degree of legitimacy must be developed in some form . |
| 11 | All cases are presented and discussed at the weekly team meeting , after which an initial diagnosis is made . |
| 12 | This general outline story of the first Passover is called the Haggadah , after which the first part of the special Psalms for Passover are sung , known as the Hallel Psalms ( Psalms 112–13 ) . |
| 13 | The American War of Independence and the French Revolution marked a turning point after which the new meaning became universal , Britain excepted . |
| 14 | After the church service , a reception was held at the Lesser Town Hall , Airdrie after which the one week honeymoon was spent touring Scotland . |
| 15 | But we are very close now to the critical turning-point after which the political scene in Prague could be as rapidly transformed as among its neighbours . |
| 16 | But we are very close now to the critical turning-point after which the political scene in Prague could be as rapidly transformed as among its neighbours . |
| 17 | There was evidence that a tear had progressed from the corroded area across the face of the pressure dome , initially in fourteen separate steps , after which the critical crack length was exceeded and total disruption followed . |
| 18 | Talks ensued with management , after which the General Confederation of Labour ( CGT ) instructed employees to return to work . |
| 19 | The gastric contents were collected at 15 minute intervals for 45 minutes to determine stimulated gastric acid output , after which the nasogastric tube was removed and subjects once more emptied their bladders . |
| 20 | If you do set too high , you may find that the first syllable spoken after a pause is distorted , especially on p's and b's , after which the overall level of the recording drops to a lower value as the speaker continues ; during the next pause in speech , the background slowly returns to its original value until the speech resumes , whereupon it falls again . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , in April 1991 leading separatists met with Chandra Shekhar in Delhi , after which the Prime Minister announced that a large number of Sikh youths imprisoned for minor offences would be released [ see p. 38151 ] . |
| 22 | The work is due to be completed in the year 2000 , after which the Great Hall will provide an unrivalled setting for conferences , concerts , balls and other grand events . |
| 23 | Orlando Gibbons published a masterly set remarkable for its general seriousness in 1612 , and Tomkins a very fine book of what he preferred to call Songs in 1622 , after which the English madrigal went into a rapid decline — as did the type of solo song which had flourished beside it , the ayre with lute accompaniment . |
| 24 | This rough equivalence continued until the 1960s after which the rapid growth in local authority expenditure placed such pressure on the rates — with predictable political controversy — that central government steadily increased its contribution to local finances . |
| 25 | In one post the English applicant was shortlisted and was subsequently withdrawn — after which the Asian applicant was shortlisted . |
| 26 | Mr Adamec held talks with the small Socialist Party yesterday , after which the Socialist leader , Mr Bohuslav Kucera , announced that the Prime Minister was quitting because he wanted someone younger to handle the ‘ compromise ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ When the sandfly bites you , it lets in this protozoan , which gets under your skin and eats away the underlayer , after which the top layer breaks away leaving raw , open wounds . |
| 28 | However , at the junction of the 25kDa/50kDa proteolytic fragments located downstream of the putative Mg-ATPase domain , the amino acid comparison revealed a completely divergent region of 13 amino acids after which the high degree of homology was restored ( 9 ) . |
| 29 | As the brood grows , workers chew through septa in the shoots and kill or seal off other queens , after which the whole tree is taken over . |
| 30 | There may follow a period of spontaneous singing in tongues by the congregation , after which the whole assembly might lapse into a profound corporate silence and a still waiting upon God . |