Example sentences of "which [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 2 | All the machinery was powered by a gas engine which drove a long shaft near the ceiling that in turn , by means of belts to fast and loose pulleys , provided the motive power for the various equipment . |
| 3 | In middle age he has experienced a breakdown , an identity crisis , which followed a long illness and an operation . |
| 4 | It was a fall down the cellar steps of one of these houses which started a long history of back trouble . |
| 5 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 6 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 7 | Some rays , which took a longer time to travel , left the white hole earlier ( when it was smaller ) while others , which took less time to travel , would have left the white hole later ( when it was bigger ) . |
| 8 | At last there was room for a central bureau of information , which went a long way to reducing the confusion caused by overlapping responsibilities . |
| 9 | For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air . |
| 10 | Also on Oct. 17 the Supreme Soviet passed a decree which went a long way towards meeting other student demands , and secured an end to the protests . |
| 11 | Pushing all the forceps to one side he almost ran from the room and reappeared shortly with a tray on which reposed a long chisel and a metal mallet . |
| 12 | Città del Castello , which had a long rivalry with Arezzo , had reason to want papal protection in order to stave off the ambitions of Arezzo . |
| 13 | By thus reproducing arguments in favour of unequal pay which had a long pedigree , Amelia McLean 's article showed that she was either unable or unwilling to realize that , apart from anything else , the introduction of Monotype machines within the previous few years had completely redistributed the cards . |
| 14 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |