Example sentences of "[prep] which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virgin had also bought a London cinema , the Scala , specialising in ‘ art house ’ films ; and a video-editing suite , called Off Line — both of which had become the particular interest of Nik Powell . |
| 2 | Efforts continued to establish a harmonization of European accounting practices , in accordance with the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives ( 1978 and 1983 respectively ) , the first of which had created the Contact Committee of officials , the standards body which had originated most of the current proposals ( but which was still not recognized by many EC members ) , while the second had included measures to standardize the presentation of consolidated accounts within the EC ( see p. 36154 for earlier developments ) . |
| 3 | It was a potentially dangerous operation involving 15 armed police officers , 2 of which had tracked the car in the force helicopter . |
| 4 | BP , ICL , IBM , Volvo , British Gas in Wales , British Telecom in the South-west , and a clutch of local authorities , many of which had led the way , had all shown it could be done , with Ford announcing its partial ban recently . |
| 5 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 6 | The Nairobi weekly publication Development Agenda was banned in August 1989 after publishing only two issues , one of which had examined the politics of the Western province and the career of Livestock Development Minister Elijah W. Mwangale . |
| 7 | In some Shanghai factories , once a ‘ hotbed ’ of radicalism , there were demands for independent trade unions along the lines of Solidarity in Poland , news of which had reached the Chinese people . |
| 8 | A general election held in Bangladesh on Feb. 27 was dominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) and the Awami League , both of which had boycotted the previous elections held in March 1988 [ see pp. 35835-36 ] . |
| 9 | It used to be the custom that the issue of the writ should be moved by chief whip of the party in the House of Commons a member of which had held the seat prior to its vacation , but this practice was occasionally the subject of abuse by the moving party being reluctant , by reason of its unpopularity in the country and consequent fear of being humiliated in a poll , Constituents in one instance were left unrepresented for over nine months . |
| 10 | Candarli Halil Pasa was one of a family of statesmen , four members of which had held the office of Grand Vezir for much of the century preceding the accession of Mehmed II ; and these men had also held , prior to their appointments as vezir , the offices of kadi and kazasker . |
| 11 | The meeting was also attended by leaders of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) , Jordanian supporters of which had established the Jordanian People 's Democratic Party ( JPDP ) in July 1989 . |
| 12 | The independence of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay from Spain was finally recognized in 1828 by Argentina and Brazil , both of which had claimed the territory . |
| 13 | An obvious possibility was an academic splash , and throughout his years at Burleigh he had chafed at the mediocrity of the school , the variable nature of the teaching , the dimness of its reputation , all of which seemed to preclude the splash academic . |
| 14 | A larger version , called the Super-Speedwing was introduced for 1992 with extra panels , a deeper cone and a trailing edge hem , all of which combined to reduce the noise element to claims of ‘ near silent ’ . |
| 15 | Faced with expressions of " growing concern " from Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and vociferous criticism from the bloc parties ( three of which threatened to leave the coalition over the issue ) , Modrow withdrew plans to create an Office for the Protection of the Constitution before the elections . |
| 16 | Being handsome , he had enjoyed only good fortune and fine adventures in his life , not the least of which included slaying the CHIMERA and defeating the AMAZONS . |
| 17 | Delegates agreed that all parties represented at the meeting , as well as the Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) , the official white opposition Conservative Party ( CP ) , the Reformed National Party ( HNP ) and the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) — all of which refused to attend the preparatory meeting — would be invited to CODESA . |
| 18 | We were wearing wetsuits , helmets and lamps and carrying ex-army ammunition boxes that were watertight and into which had gone the cameras and flashguns we were going to use to photograph the mine . |
| 19 | Everyone was heading for the bedroom from which had come the screams . |