Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in 1950 the French Minister of Agriculture , Pierre Pflimlin , announced at the Council of Europe — and proposed later in March 1951 to the non-member states of Austria , Portugal and Switzerland — something which amounted to a second Schuman Plan , in that it contained similar ultimate objectives : a common market directed by supranational institutions . |
| 2 | A Daghestan-quality Caucasian rug is roughly the same price , and would therefore be classified as zero per cent ( 0% ) ; whereas a standard Afghan , which costs between a third and twice as much , will be marked as +35/100% . |
| 3 | Park Foods is in fine fettle after selling off all none-core business identified in a refocusing exercise a move which has clearly had a beneficial effect on profits which soared by a third from £7.7m to £10.3m before tax at the end of March this year . |
| 4 | That year Nestlé — which accounts for a tenth of the Swiss stockmarket — opened its register to overseas investors , and a number of other companies have followed suit . |
| 5 | In America , which accounts for a third of all luxury purchases , shares of Tiffany & Co. , an upper-crust jeweller and a weathervane of the industry , fell on news of disappointing sales . |
| 6 | The issue of the transformation to political pluralism was regarded as the main obstacle to progress in the peace talks between the government and the Mozambique National Resistance ( Renamo or MNR ) , which resumed for a second round in Rome on Aug. 14 . |
| 7 | The trees had gone , absorbed back into the stone , which shimmered with a last remembered green , oozed a final sheen of sap . |
| 8 | Scotland answered with a show of power in the scrum which lead to an 11th minute try by captain Andy Nicol . |
| 9 | It also links with Chapter 3 , which reports on a second survey of known drug users conducted during the following year ( 1985–6 ) , and in which , with the aid of a theoretical model of outbreaks of heroin use , we attempt to use our research findings to forecast future trends in heroin use . |
| 10 | The diffusion model of the spread of heroin use in Wirral will be further examined in Chapter 3 , which reports on a second multi-agency survey of known opioid users during 1985–6 , and presents a forecast of the future of heroin use in Wirral . |