Example sentences of "[prep] which [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ran the cell all day , after which time a green crust had formed on the cathode . |
| 2 | She went slowly to the refrigerator , took out a block of ice cream , cut three slices off it and put them into glass dishes , then plonked the dishes on the table , during which time a new idea came to her . |
| 3 | They voted by 19 to 6 in favour of a two year moratorium , during which time a scientific committee will ‘ review the scientific and technical considerations relevant to the proposed amendments ’ . |
| 4 | Faced with the immediate prospect of a serious coal dispute and fuel crisis the Baldwin government decided to provide a nine-month subsidy to the coal owners , during which time a royal commission , the Samuel Commission , would investigate the coal industry . |
| 5 | There are many such areas , each containing a full or partial representation of the visual field , some of which receive a direct input from the primary area and some of which rely on indirect projections for their inputs . |
| 6 | Ms Tyson has supported the Japanese-American semiconductor agreements , the last of which set a proposed share of part of the Japanese chip market of 20% ; she says that not all sectors should be treated to the ‘ market-share ’ approach , but that the administration reserves the right to use it where appropriate . |
| 7 | Retailers incur fixed costs , many of which contain a sunk element , for example fixtures and fittings . |
| 8 | A short continuous crisis , the origins and consequences of which cover a long period , seems to be the double requirement of tragedy and its double relationship to time . |
| 9 | Self-help groups have also been started by carers themselves , many of which form a strong platform to campaign for improvements in health facilities , patients ' rights and benefits , public awareness and funds for research . |
| 10 | The boilers to raise the necessary steam were of ‘ Lancashire ’ type , the characteristics of which enable a small amount of steam to be supplied over long periods with a minimum of attention , which was the type of duty envisaged for this plant . |
| 11 | The most complex of the risings was the Pilgrimage of Grace , the problems of which have been covered in two important papers , both of which stress the varying motives of the participants ( 68 ; 69 ) . |
| 12 | In conclusion , introducing managed competition into the NHS introduces a number of dilemmas , some of which admit no easy answer . |
| 13 | Furthermore , Y6N17 AVG ( see figure ) departs significantly not only from the Haiti glass trend , but also from other samples of Chicxulub melt rock , some of which show no petrographic sign of alteration or unmelted casts ( see C1N10 in the figure ) . |
| 14 | Although this is a possible explanation , it is not completely convincing , as similar conditions must prevail on many other spits , none of which show the progressive grading of material characteristic of the Chesil Beach . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind also that our body clock tends to run slow at the weekend , we will tend to have later nights and lie-ins , all of which cause a slight delay of our body clock . |
| 16 | Permanent inhabitants include many kinds of protozoa ( single-celled animals ) and a great many multi-celled animals , many of which undergo a daily vertical migration , from deeper to surface waters , effectively to stay within the same level of illumination as the light varies . |
| 17 | The styles of the lotus buds which occupy opposite arms of the saltire are different — the one at the " bottom left " is broader at the base and more heavily drawn than the other , although they possess identical stems both of which meet a small rhomboid , with equal precision . |
| 18 | In the multi-tracked recording Mr Jarvis plays 99 roles , many of which bear an uncanny resemblance to well-known actors . |
| 19 | The SL-Bit players are the CDX-560 ( £199.95 ) and CDX-460 ( £179.95 ) , both of which include a remote control handset . |
| 20 | An effective means of achieving this is by the use of an individual care assessment approach , the main elements of which include the following : 1 Medical , Nursing and Social assessment of the person 's needs to determine the most appropriate form of care , eg domiciliary/residential/day care , taking into account availability in both the public and private sector . |
| 21 | The disk is subpentagonal and covered with small thin scales many of which carry a simple glassy spinelet or rod , disk diameter up to 15 mm . |
| 22 | The disk is rounded to pentagonal , diameter up to 5 mm covered with thin overlapping scales many of which carry a simple rodlike spinelet . |
| 23 | Gay bars show porn videos , many of which carry an explicit safer-sex message . |
| 24 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 25 | The existence at Edinburgh of a range of computer– based disciplines ( many of which enjoy a worldwide reputation ) has a spin-off effect across faculties . |
| 26 | The sediment created during second fermentation is composed of various waste-products , several types of which possess a sticky character ; to encourage these more cohesive particles to descend to the base of the cork requires a certain amount of physical persuasion and , as a result , a method of supplying this encouragement , remuage , was developed . |
| 27 | The high prison population is held responsible for overcrowding and understaffing in prisons , both of which exacerbate the bad conditions in England 's ageing prisons . |
| 28 | A range of accommodation is available — from five star hotels through to working farms as well as bed and breakfast accommodation — all of which offer a traditional Somerset welcome and excellent value . |
| 29 | Large intelligence organisations are very hierarchically structured , affording plenty of opportunity for individual empire-building and internecine jealousies , all of which waste an enormous amount of time and effort , sow the seeds of discontent and distrust and frequently obscure and distort the important issues . |
| 30 | All of which beg the following questions . |