Example sentences of "[pron] which [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fürst Franz Thun-Hohenstein remembers : ‘ When the enormous picture arrived packed up , my sisters and I were curious to see and touch something which really came from Decin , from Bohemia , which had taken on a kind of dream-like quality for us ; Decin did live on for us , but was unattainable . |
| 2 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 3 | First there were alternative models of historical geomorphology evolved in areas where remnants of Tertiary planation surfaces were dominant in the landscape and these are considered in this section ; and secondly there were developments in areas where Quaternary deposits and landscapes promoted a very different approach and one which often centred upon sea levels and glacial landforms and their interpretation , as reviewed below ( pp. 74 and 76 ) . |
| 4 | A new 15 foot tufting machine is also being installed for this purpose , replacing one which originally came from the Glenvale factory in Paisley . |
| 5 | Leonard had even met him briefly in 1949 , but this meeting at McGill was the one which quickly developed into a strong and mutual respect , a lifelong friendship . |
| 6 | It was a grisly episode indeed , one which inevitably detracted from history 's judgement of the epochal events that were to follow . |
| 7 | The outer room contained two wash-hand basins with a paper towel dispenser and , to the left of the door , a long Formica-covered counter with a glass above it which apparently served as a dressing-table . |
| 8 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 9 | This did not mean that they were wholly resistant to new ideas — that was clearly not the case because many spoke of the helpful advice and information given on the farming , nutrition , health and child care programmes — but they seemed to resist anything which either conflicted with views they already held or seemed to have no relevance to their experience . |