Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own father had been a skilled mechanic ( a phrase which conveyed little to Clara ) and as he himself had managed to purchase by his own labours a three bedroomed semi-detached house in a pleasant suburban district , he might have been thought to have cause to feel fairly content with life . |
| 2 | Professor Cuttino has concluded that the peace of paris ‘ which re-created the feudal relationship which led eventually to war , was the result of English commitments towards Sicily and the desire to secure wealthy territory ’ . |
| 3 | Although modest in their poetic achievement , they helped to sustain the tenuous thread of the Slovene literary language which led back to Trubar . |
| 4 | Given Mancini 's scenario , their role is clear : they selfishly overturned Edward 's wishes and set in motion the train of events which led directly to Edward V 's deposition . |
| 5 | Given Mancini 's scenario , their role is clear : they selfishly overturned Edward 's wishes and set in motion the train of events which led directly to Edward V 's deposition . |
| 6 | This is not to claim that the war was totally unintended , but that national leaders had become caught in an irrational process which led inevitably to war . |
| 7 | To have a set-aside system which applied only to farms in the north of Europe would discriminate considerably . |
| 8 | The PFLP-GC was allegedly linked to the bombing of the Pan American Boeing 747 which crashed on to Lockerbie , Scotland , on Dec. 21 , 1988 , killing 270 people [ see pp 36409-10 ] . |
| 9 | Dr Martin Knapp , Deputy Director , Personal Social Services Research Unit , University of Kent I am going to talk about the programme of pilot , projects described in " Care in the Community : The First Steps The starting point for that was the 1983 Care in the community circular which referred only to England and built on the Department of Health 's Care in the community consultative document of 1981 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it was the economic climate , as much as the renewed trade union and working-class support for Labour , which contributed significantly to Labour 's victory in the 1929 General Election . |
| 11 | It was subscriptions from Friends through the Committee for Sufferings which contributed substantially to funding propaganda efforts in Europe in the 1820s and 1830s including the translation of existing materials into various languages and the production of new items for European readers . |
| 12 | The primitive ceremony which came soonest to Eliot 's mind , whether in his ‘ Beating of a Drum ’ or in 1926 when he spoke of savages who ‘ believe that the ritual is performed in order to induce a fall of rain' , was rain-making , probably because he had read about it for his 1913 seminar paper . |
| 13 | Her period then came early and flooded and the symptoms were severe enough to warrent a new prescription ( the Staphisagria was n't helping ) which came out to Millefolium . |
| 14 | The only gossip which came back to Lucien was that Amber thought him too plain in appearance to work well with Jeopardy , and considered him merely a tool that her lover was using in an attempt to provoke her . |
| 15 | We ca n't begin this week with anything else but the Barcelona Olympics which came home to Oxford athletics coach Marcia Marriott . |
| 16 | The place itself , the arrangement of those low , recently rebuilt stone farms and the few mud and wattle cottages , the eternal comfort of the lake 's shape and colours which seemed not to mirror but to temper her mood , the rise of fells which gave her sensibility its reach . |
| 17 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 18 | In the centre of the vault , which dated back to 382–336BC , was the king 's sarcophagus , apparently untouched for 23 centuries . |
| 19 | They were Roman Catholics and they brought their own priests , their own life style and a cultural heritage which owed much to Italy . |
| 20 | The Office of Works had already commenced construction of the attractive Well Hall Estate , Eltham ( the design and layout of which owed much to Unwin 's book Town planning in practice ( 1909 ) ) , but the building of munitions plants elsewhere in the country was now promoted . |
| 21 | The quatrain poems bind up such sympathies with a way of thinking which owed much to anthropology and Eliot 's growing wish to include in his work the worlds of both the savage and the city . |
| 22 | Instead , he had put up in a hotel some miles out of town , high up on the Downs , which owed more to Laura Ashley than to Nancy Astor . |
| 23 | Gone was the natural , below-shoulder , slightly fly-away look , and in its place was a dramatically side-parted bob , which shelved sharply to chin level . |
| 24 | His version of mortalism distinguished between the soul , remaining with the body till the Last Judgement , and the spirit , which God quickened only in the elect and which returned straight to heaven . |
| 25 | They leased a grand house at 4 Tenterden Street , just off Hanover Square , the garden of which ran north and contained the workshops which fronted on to Oxford Street . |
| 26 | Remy , which lost out to Martini last year in a bid for Benedictine , is the world 's third largest cognac firm and the only one which is still family owned . |
| 27 | Truman 's decision not to stand left open the Democratic nomination , which went eventually to Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois . |
| 28 | Wihtred was heir to a legislative tradition in Kent which went back to Aethelberht but no king among the western Saxons is known to have legislated before Ine . |
| 29 | In fact , Marx and Engels did not have much choice among anthropologists because most of them were heirs to the philosophical tradition which went back to Locke and which glorified private property . |
| 30 | Moreover , this model has the advantage of giving , by means of a simple calculation : ( i ) a minimal villus height ( about 358 µm ) , which related experimentally to protein malnutrition , ( ii ) a limit to villus growth reaching about 710 µm as maximum height related experimentally to a protein value of 20% , or higher . |