Example sentences of "[prep] which it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Charles I sold the manor to the City of London in 1628 to raise finance , after which it changed hands several times until the Bethell family of Rise held it through most of the 17th and 18th centuries . |
2 | However , in 1990 the government launched a full-scale economic restructuring package for which it sought World Bank support . |
3 | The company , which has four US and four European offices , has branched out further and has now established an Asia-Pacific operation for which it chose Singapore . |
4 | 6.2 Each centre has received a proforma showing the courses for which it presented candidates in session 1988–89 . |
5 | It stated that Karelia 's constitution and laws took precedence over those of the Russian Federation and the Soviet Union , but that some of Karelia 's state powers were voluntarily delegated to Russia , of which it remained part . |
6 | Newmill-1 followed in 1971 and reached 6500 ft in the Lower Permian Sandstone , near the top of which it encountered traces of gas ; further traces were found in the Sherwood Sandstone . |
7 | The JUSTICE report , A Proposal for a Suitors ' Fund , advocates a more radical reform by suggesting that public funds should be used to indemnify litigants against ‘ faults in the system ’ amongst which it included appeals on fact or law . |
8 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
9 | If the West could be confident that full debt forgiveness would automatically be matched by a growth in spending on things like schools and clinics , then the zeal with which it pursued debt-forgiveness might be greater . |
10 | Battalions , Northumberland Fusiliers and the actions in which it took part during the 1914–18 War . |
11 | And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly . |
12 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
13 | At the outset of the meeting , the Bank put forward its proposals in relation to Job Security and highlighted the main areas in which it sought agreement with the Association . |
14 | For example , in circumstances where there may be legitimate public concern about the violation of human rights by the new regime , or the manner in which it achieved power , it has not sufficed to say that the announcement of ‘ recognition ’ is simply a neutral formality . |
15 | On 11 February the monarchist ABC weighed in with a leader entitled " Patriotic alert " , in which it claimed solidarity with " the Falangist faith " and issued dire warnings against the " hidden hand " which lay behind the 9 February disturbance , by which was meant socialism and communism . |
16 | Last night the organisation issued a statement in which it vowed attacks on jail staff would continue until the current dispute in the Maze prison is resolved . |
17 | At that meeting he will be able to announce to clubs that ITV has agreed to pay more than £7m over the next four years , an extension of a contract in which it paid £10.5m over five years . |
18 | Whilst it would be an exaggeration to say that the part played by remains true that it is only in an exceptional case that a Government Bill fails to pass into law in substantially the form in which it entered Parliament . |
19 | On Dec. 25 the EC published a communiqué in which it considered Russia to be " exercising the rights and international obligations of the former Soviet Union " . |
20 | What made this trade especially useful was the small extent to which it depended on re-exports and the very great extent to which it brought markets for English manufacturers , especially in woollen and worsted textiles of the lighter and cheaper kinds . |
21 | If such an advance is realized , it represents one more step in a progression in which the antidiscipline , that is , the field treating the next level of organization below the one under scrutiny , is partly replaced by the synthetic enterprise to which it gave rigour and impetus ( Wilson , 1977 ) . |
22 | It was an interesting move pregnant with unforeseen circumstances , not least the concern and misunderstanding to which it gave rise locally . |
23 | J. G. Frazer further suggests that the story of Jacob 's dream ( which was deemed so extremely significant that the spot on which it took place was henceforth sanctified in the Jewish religion ) " was probably told to explain the immemorial sanctity of Bethel , which may well have been revered by the aboriginal inhabitants of Canaan long before the Hebrews invaded and conquered the land " . |
24 | Ms Oruene claimed that the faculty had varied to her detriment the terms on which it granted membership . |
25 | Specific ideas on which it sought views were that preparatory advice given before the granting of a legal aid order should be claimed and paid for under that order and not the green form scheme , and that welfare benefit entitlement work should either be limited to a fixed fee or excluded altogether . |
26 | Later , when the Northern Ireland Office was established , it relied heavily on it for the information on which it based security and political activities . |
27 | Moreover , the provinces believe there is no need to determine if the management of the blood-supply system was negligent in the pace at which it implemented heat treatment and blood screening measures . |
28 | The diacylglycerol analogue , 1-oleoyl-2-acetyl-glycerol , at a concentration at which it inhibited histamine stimulated aminopyrine accumulation in parietal cells , had a similar inhibitory effect to 100 nM TPA ( Fig 3 ) . |
29 | This action can not be interpreted as an inhibition by stauro sporine of negative modulation of the histamine H 2 receptor by a basal activity of protein kinase C because similar effects were found with gastric inhibitory polypeptide , the action of which was not inhibited by activation of protein kinase C. Finally 1-oleoyl-2-acetyl-glycerol , a diacylglycerol analogue which activates protein kinase C in intact cells , inhibited histamine stimulation of cyclic AMP content in HGT-1 cells at a concentration at which it inhibited histamine stimulated aminopyrine accumulation in partietal cells . |
30 | In doing so it also extended and sharpened the tools by which it assured standards across the growing territory of higher education , but at the same time it struggled with the problem of those institutions which increasingly felt that they had served a long enough apprenticeship . |