Example sentences of "which [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This presaged by 20 years that apt acronym CREEP ( Committee to Re-Elect the President ) , whose coffers financed the Watergate scandal which led to jail for ten aides and to Nixon 's resignation in 1974 to avoid impeachment . |
| 2 | A more sophisticated form of vernacular religious music of the Counter-Reformation was the madrigale spirituale which began to flower in 1581 with the publication of the first book of Madrigali spirituali a cinque voci by the Imperial Kapellmeister Philipp de Monte ( 1521–1603 ) , another Italianized Fleming . |
| 3 | This stripping away of extraneous duties continued under its successor , the College of Foreign Affairs , which began to function in 1719 , and well before the end of the century this process of specialization had been completed . |
| 4 | The indispensable starting point is the annual International Bibliography of Historical Sciences which began to appear in 1930 and is now published at Paris with the assistance of UNESCO . |
| 5 | Besides the obvious encyclopedias , most countries produce several annual or periodical repertories of useful information ; a well-known British example is The Statesman 's Yearbook , which began to appear in 1864 . |
| 6 | Albert Batchelor constructed a small cement works on the site known as Clinkham works which continued to operate until 1931 . |
| 7 | The report had initially been commissioned by Arthur Greenwood when he was in the War Cabinet : its purpose had been to recommend measures to consolidate existing welfare provisions , which tended to vary from one scheme to another . |