Example sentences of "that which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation today is quite different from that which prevailed following the 1944 Act . |
| 2 | As a programme of state medicine it was quite as significant as that which had shaped the environmental reforms seventy years before . |
| 3 | But it was n't that which had caused the perspiration to stand out on her skin . |
| 4 | Colonel Philips explained that they had thought initially that they had discovered a danger similar to that which had caused the Hob 's Lane disaster . |
| 5 | Nothing daunted , the committee members set to ; they contacted friends and acquaintances on other islands , they studied ferry time-tables , and planned their campaign with a speed which matched that which had equipped the Law Centre . |
| 6 | With no likelihood of progress in the dispute , it was widely believed that Yeltsin had cancelled his visit in order to avoid a failure to achieve progress on the issue similar to that which had accompanied the visit by the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in April 1991 . |
| 7 | This was a very different type of nationalism from that which had produced the United States of America , and one which it is not easy to explain , as has sometimes been attempted , in terms of Gandhi 's attachment to traditional Hindu notions of self-purification . |
| 8 | To both men it seemed that a way out for all parties might be found in an international conference , such as that which had settled the Luxembourg question in 1867 . |
| 9 | Another diplomatic marriage was that which attempted to bring the house of Foix into a closer relationship with the French crown and with the great families of northern France . |
| 10 | It was a question of which faction would win , that which was at least potentially pro-English and Protestant , or that which wanted to maintain the status quo , pro-French and Catholic . |