Example sentences of "which [verb] occurred [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Free Churches have made much use of the explosion of hymn writing which has occurred during the last thirty years and which crosses the boundaries of all denominations . |
| 2 | Mr Dryfe said : ‘ The violence which has occurred during the last several weeks outside the factory gates and the damage done to the property of several of our employees is deplorable . |
| 3 | But they are now undoubtedly the most endangered of the dolphin species , largely because their small and isolated populations are particularly vulnerable to the industrialisation which has occurred throughout much of their range in the past few decades . |
| 4 | One theme which has occurred throughout this book , is that law and order , and indeed Conservative criminology , has developed in response to social anxieties felt by ‘ respectable ’ elements of British society about a Britain which has difficulties in coming to terms with its position in a changing world . |
| 5 | That comparison is exagerrated by the enormous increase in world trade which has occurred in the post-war period , and which has largely by-passed the Eastern European countries . |
| 6 | However , it did not prevent , in the winter of 1921–2 , an appalling famine afflicting the southern districts of the Ukraine , ‘ the worst ’ , a League of Nations report declared , ‘ both as regards the numbers affected and as regards the mortality from starvation and disease which has occurred in Europe in modern times ’ . |
| 7 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |
| 8 | The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary . |
| 9 | This is an important point to make , and it can again aid in understanding a distortion which has occurred in the notion of ‘ death instincts ’ in psychoanalytic theory . |
| 10 | This season all female competitors had to undergo a compulsory sex test , a sad indication of the ridiculous cheating which has occurred in top level sport in the past . |
| 11 | Bearing in mind the magnitude of soil erosion which has occurred in sensitive areas including the Dust Bowl , parts of China and of Africa it is surprising that more attention has not been directed to this aspect of the human impact . |
| 12 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 13 | No , I think it , it is , it 's quite a complex situation , but there is a disease of p pigeons which is one of these paramixa viruses , which has occurred in the country and is a disease of pigeons , and most pigeon clubs in fact all pigeon clubs now I believe , insist that their members vaccinate their birds . |
| 14 | It is the shift which has occurred within the population over statutory retirement-pension age towards the oldest old . |
| 15 | In England pop culture has a simultaneous function — inextricably intertwined to a degree unmatched anywhere else in the world of exploitation and expression : exploitation as the product of an industry at the sharp end of the new conditions of capitalism , expression by virtue of its position — which has occurred by default — as the main area of activity in our society which freely admits voices of both youth and change . |
| 16 | That this is not always the case is apparent from our policy in cervical cancer screening , the bulk of which has occurred among young women , in whom the risk of dying of cervical cancer is substantially less than among older women , who have not been the focus of public screening policies for this disease . |
| 17 | Suddenly he was determined to unravel the intrigue which he was certain linked many of the events which had occurred since Nogai 's death . |
| 18 | It was a thought which had occurred to Tweed . |
| 19 | Myopotamus Manor , which had occurred to him , was just a joke . |
| 20 | However , a light but bitterly cold breeze was a strong reminder of the horrors which had occurred to previous travellers , in far worse conditions . |
| 21 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |
| 22 | ‘ You think leaving the valley is corrupting , do n't you ? ’ said Lydia who was clinging like a terrier to a theme which had occurred to her . |
| 23 | A naval investigation began in August 1989 into the cause of an explosion which had occurred on board the battleship USS Iowa in April 1989 , causing the death of 47 sailors [ see p. 36604 ] . |
| 24 | He discovered loose rivets and serious fretting which had occurred between the main beam and the first three crossbeams on the right-hand side only . |
| 25 | The confrontation was symbolic of the accelerating polarization which had occurred over the previous five years , with the Popular Front calling for a determined re-application of the policies of 1931–3 and the right for radical constitutional revision . |
| 26 | For Marx and Engels the French Revolution marked the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism , which had occurred over a century earlier in England during the civil war . |
| 27 | Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years . |
| 28 | In the latter union these changes ‘ were less a surrender of power to the shopfloor than a formal accommodation to the reality of decentralisation which had occurred during the post-war years ’ ( Hyman , 1983 , p. 42 ) . |
| 29 | Suchinda resigned as Prime Minister on May 24 , stating that he strongly regretted the events which had occurred during his brief premiership . |
| 30 | Furthermore , a fear of revolution on the lines of that which had occurred in France still loomed large in the minds of the new English bourgeoisie , underpinning the demand for an organized police system geared to the protection of the life and property of the ruling classes ( Reiner 1985 ) . |