Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.

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1 The decision puts the EC ahead of other signatories of the Montreal Protocol , which agreed in November to phase out these chemicals by January 1996 .
2 Within an hour Corbett and Selkirk , accompanied by a dozen mounted men-at-arms , were pounding along the muddy track which led from Edinburgh to the port of Leith .
3 A FIRM which moved from London to Liverpool and doubled turnover in each of the past three years has moved to a prestige waterfront office block .
4 , 37 , had been with the Company since 1982 and was part of the team which moved from Bletchley to Northampton .
5 Green Shopping Day ( this year called Green Consumer Day , and roping in interests as diverse as supermarkets , townswomen 's guilds and environmental groups ) was a thing entirely of SustainAbility 's own devising ; Hailes and Elkington had Lynne Franks PR working on the publicity , and some of their participating organisations — which ranged from Safeway to the World Wildlife Fund — paying for it .
6 DAVID KILSBY David Kilsby joined the retail sales force in September as Merchandiser for the Southern area which covers from Cornwall to East Anglia .
7 By 1926 eleven British and four continental centres had opened ; in 1938 , with assets totalling £100,000 , 45,169 guest weeks were taken at the thirty British and twenty-two overseas centres which spread from Brittany to Poland and Czechoslovakia .
8 The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects which range from McDonalds to the Gulf War , taking in on the way a whole range of everyday tragedies :
9 ‘ Now then , ’ said Deuce , looking critically around the large sitting room which seemed to Harry to be the sort of place the Queen of England would live in , ‘ this wo n't do at all . ’
10 This leaves Kenchester on the north-south route along the Welsh Marches which passes through Leintwardine to Wroxeter , thence to Chester .
11 This had originated in a Cossack military formation which withdrew from Russia to Yugoslavia at the end of the Russian Civil War in 1920 .
12 Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water , about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire , and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askrigg .
13 These are ten week courses which run from January to March .
14 The sharpening of management skills and getting things done through people is the focus of the 5 x 2 day modules which run from May to December each year .
15 ‘ We still believe there is a lot of untapped potential in the catchment area which stretches from Moyle to Ballymoney .
16 Maureen covers an area which stretches from Swansea to Wootton Bassett and across to Birmingham .
17 From a small , localised clientele , the company has now expanded into a customer base which stretches from Southampton to Wick .
18 On the North-East circuit today , which stretches from Middlesbrough to Ashington , boys make up only about three per cent of the dancing community .
19 The report points out that 70 million people live in the banana-shaped industrial complex which stretches from Britain to Italy .
20 During the year Manweb spent £85.5m on improving the network , which stretches from Aberystwyth to Merseyside , and is planning similar capital expenditure in the coming 12 months .
21 Rooney 's large canvasses and works on paper are always memorable and , on reflection , I see his work as part of an English tradition of individual ‘ eccentricity ’ which stretches from Blake to Stanley Spencer , Paul Nash and Carel Weight .
22 Pam Ashton will take the Trans Pennine Trail , a route she is helping to establish , which stretches from Southport to Hornsea on the east coast .
23 Demonstrations began on 11 February in Stepanakert , the regional capital , and led to the adoption of a resolution by the regional soviet on 20 February which called for Nagorno-Karabakh to be transferred back to Armenia .
24 ‘ I look upon pigeon fancying as a very enjoyable hobby and , through the club , I have the opportunity to race my birds every week of the season , which lasts from March to September ’ .
25 ‘ ONLY A few small seas and rather larger mountain ranges stand in the way of the completion of a Euro-megalopolis which spreads from Glasgow to Milan ’ , according to Terence Bendixson , a transport researcher .
26 She described colours which appeared to Carolyn to be faded , dirty , or both , as ‘ subtle ’ , and Carolyn realized that her clothes were not these shades by dismal accident , but by the most painstaking design .
27 Back in Scotland , in 1712 he attempted to extend his dominions , which stretched from Dumfries to the braes of Glenapp in south-west Ayrshire , into the heart of the latter county ; however , his troops were defeated at Newton of Ayr by ‘ a powerful body of Tinkers from Argyll and Dumbarton ’ .
28 Their common purpose is to restore the Elbe as a source of drinking water , and to reestablish commercial fishing on the river , which flows from Czechoslovakia to the North Sea .
29 Lake Mývatn has the privilege of being the only European breeding station for Barrow 's goldeneye , a duck of American origin , and in the River Laxa which flows from Mývatn to the sea , you are assured of seeing the beautiful Harlequin duck , another New World species which also has its only European outpost here .
30 The completion of the Corrieyairack road — it was also the end of the road-building season for that year which ran from April to October — was made the occasion of a notable celebration , here described by an eye-witness :
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