Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study in 1971 found that of 132 political states only 12 were true nation-states in which everyone had the same native tongue . |
| 2 | I refrained from making any statement until I had the erm minutes which I received the er , agenda which I received the next day which contradict the abandonment , but if the idea was to sort of give this troublesome member from Bungay a heart attack , er it failed , cos I 'm still here and ticking , now I would like to go through once again the , the point regarding Bungay and I hope the committee will take it on board with . |
| 3 | They were both enjoyable erm I ca n't really say which I enjoyed the most er , I thought they were both very good and of course good value for the money because they do n't charge very much for the fares well I do n't think they do . |
| 4 | The state of the sterling exchanges , the progress of the negotiations for financial aid , the estimates of the likely flow of oil-these were all matters on which I knew the Prime Minister would want the latest information . |
| 5 | I have just completed a randomised study of 24 patients receiving oral hypoglycaemic agents , in which I compared the glycaemic control ( as indicated by monthly assay of fructosamine ) of a group allocated to self monitoring of blood glucose and a similar group who tested their urine . |
| 6 | I HAD EVEN WRITTEN : ONE , THE TRAVELLING COMPANION , WHICH WAS RETURNED BY AN EDITOR ON THE PLEA THAT IT WAS A WORK : OF GENIUS AND INDECENT , AND WHICH I BURNED THE OTHER DAY ON THE GROUND THAT IT WAS NOT A WORK OF GENIUS , AND THAT JEKYLL HAD SUPPLANTED IT . |
| 7 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 8 | In the slide in which I showed the overall results it appears that about half the patients , the erm marker tumour had been eradicated and in quite a lot of patients there were tumours present . |
| 9 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 10 | I have received with great satisfaction the loyal and dutiful expression of your thanks for the Speech with which I opened the present Session of Parliament . |
| 11 | I I took Mr Jewitt 's contribution or comment really on that to almost confirm the way in which you suggested the additional wording , but I paused . |
| 12 | The enlightened Bazarov had inherited , was continuous with , took a stage further , the liberal and Westernizing impulse of the 1840s which itself followed the Decembrist uprising of 1825 , an aristocratic bid for reform by men who had chased Napoleon out of Russia and had later felt the civilizing influence of Paris . |
| 13 | She led a losing diamond from dummy , on which she discarded the winning heart from the closed hand , and West was forced to ruff and concede the last two tricks . |
| 14 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 15 | As ever , Omi was in , sitting patiently at the table , writing one of the many letters with which she kept the tattered network of Brombergs and Ritters precariously bound together . |
| 16 | For Elizabeth — who had flown micro-light aircraft , climbed rock faces , dived in treacherous underwater currents and travelled the world alone — the visit to the remote camp near Sondwana was one adventure too far for which she paid the ultimate price . |
| 17 | There was no mistaking her sincerity , nor the obvious distaste with which she regarded the very idea of such a union . |
| 18 | She leased the theatre ( which she called the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall ) for eighteen years at a rental of £1,000 p.a. , raised from her own charitable supporters , but faced an immediate financial crisis as local audiences , deprived of drink or blue jokes , withdrew their patronage . |
| 19 | It is ironic that the right hon. Member for Finchley was pitched out of office a year ago today as a direct consequence of that ’ no , no , no ’ with which she infuriated the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) . |
| 20 | The Waldron City Herald night editor must have had a fit trying to decide which one got the three inch banner . |
| 21 | And frowned at each other , as ill-coordinated a double-act as Fanny and Johnny Cradock : it was hard to tell which one found the other most irritating . |
| 22 | I have just returned from a NATO meeting last week at which we agreed the military strategy that will accompany the strategic concept now agreed , of which Germany is a prominent supporter . |
| 23 | This was followed by a trio of voices relating the history of 1OAB 's community service ‘ from birth to enforced closure ’ , after which we played the doleful song ‘ There 's a Gold Mine in the Sky ’ . |
| 24 | I remember a gang of us once roamed the streets looking for fag ends from which we shook the remaining bits of tobacco to roll our own . |
| 25 | Now one of the major issues that we 're concerned about of course is the overtime erm which is , if you review the last three months of the overtime which we did the other day , erm we obviously , we spent the annual budget erm allowance . |
| 26 | I mean which we did the last time we went we went down the , the beach and so on down the |
| 27 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 28 | It was the year in which we celebrated the first twenty-five years of a successful university . |
| 29 | The manner in which we used the social network variable has been fully described elsewhere ( L. Milroy , 1987 ) , and I shall limit my comments here to the question of focusing , stability and normenforcement . |
| 30 | Coun. Michael Carr , leader of the borough council , said : ‘ We have entered the second round of City Challenge with the same enthusiasm with which we approached the first , and I hope we enjoy the same success . |