Example sentences of "which [vb past] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1964 the TUC sold its 40 per cent of the Herald to the Mirror Group , which relaunched it as the Sun . |
| 2 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 3 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 4 | I had underlined the few shady connections which made it into the open . |
| 5 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 6 | Nevertheless there was a central thread running through the JCPT report which linked it to the feasibility study of merger which the CHC had commissioned . |
| 7 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 8 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 9 | Well , you had to feed it you know erm Then there was this erm er sort of a whipping in in there was a long trough leading to the knife and then there were some cogwheels which pulled it into the knife . |
| 10 | Donny O'Brien , the ancient typesetter inherited from the original Advent , swore each day that it was only by the grace of God that the paper ever got launched in the taxi which delivered it to the newspaper boys . |
| 11 | He had inherited a view of the cross which saw it as the place where Christ did something which changed God 's mind about human beings . |
| 12 | Over coffee we heard another interesting anecdote about The Kings Head which brought it to the forefront of media attention last year . |
| 13 | During the years between 1813 and 1830 Serbia , under Miloš , had experienced a social , cultural and economic transformation which brought it from the medieval obscurity of a declining oriental despotism to the threshold of modern European statehood . |
| 14 | As has been noted , services are far less easy prey to import penetration ; and the broad financial sector fared well out of a sharp rise in inflation and the high interest rates which accompanied it in the early 1970s . |
| 15 | In an unexpected coda to a recent art saga , the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth announced in December that the original frame to Thomas Eakins 's ‘ The Swimming Hole ’ had been discovered at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , which donated it to the museum . |
| 16 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 17 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |