Example sentences of "[n mass] which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protestors had intended to enter Épernay , but were prevented from doing so by a squadron of cavalry which had barricaded the road . |
| 2 | Because what is truly remarkable , given the nostalgic lament which has accompanied the subsequent displacement of this ‘ traditional way of life ’ , is that in their own historical time these emerging cultural institutions were greeted not only as something ‘ new ’ , but as signs of an alarming development among the British people which threatened to destroy the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 3 | THE DEATH OF THE Lotus Elan was the result of poor sales which failed to recoup the massive investment made in the car , according to former GM Europe boss Bob Eaton . |
| 4 | Attempts to develop a peinture feminine , on the lines of the écriture feminine proposed by Hélène Cixous ( whose rhapsodic feminism has had much greater impact on the Aglophone world than on her own French audience ) , led to works which sought to represent the very evanescence , immateriality , and ordinariness of women 's existential condition and past works , as in Bobby Baker 's performance art , in which she makes cakes or reproduces her daily kitchen routines , or , Susan Hiller 's cool , barometrically precise account of her own pregnancy , in the graphic work , ‘ Ten Months ’ . |
| 5 | Their hands were busy with each other , lubricated by the lotus oil , their perspiration and the wine of Min which had entered the mouth of the Cave . |