Example sentences of "which we [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local correspondents were ‘ warning every day that the events which we saw last winter may occur again' . |
| 2 | The top management group with which we began this chapter decided to begin to change their organisational defensive routines by beginning with the ones that they create in their own meetings . |
| 3 | A system that forces some into the worst schools is hardly one that meets the canons of social justice with which we began this article . |
| 4 | I enclose a Christmas card for Wilson Efren Ruiz , although we have not yet heard whether he received the greetings and small gift which we sent last Christmas . |
| 5 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 6 | ‘ We plan to use the cash proceeds to build up our environmental service business in the US particularly to expand our $42m Tropical Plant Rental business which we acquired last year , ’ said Mr Thompson . |
| 7 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 8 | Which we made good margins on . |
| 9 | For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty . |
| 10 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 11 | The process of reform upon which we embarked some time ago runs against some ingrained attitudes in public sector management , but they are beginning to change . |
| 12 | Our immediate agenda must be the talks on which we embarked last year . |
| 13 | The only occasions on which we got fleeting moments of commitment were ones where I or my British colleagues were present and involved . |
| 14 | one of the reasons which we lacked last year was er , was a , was a fast , you know , opening bowler . |
| 15 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |
| 16 | He nevertheless adapted well to this new-fangled contraption and made the most excellent coffee on it , of which we drank many cups with him and his family during their visit . |
| 17 | For instance this bit of woodland which we planted fifteen years ago — it 's becoming part of the countryside and in another generation will be here as a bit of habitat for wildlife — it 's of no monetary significance at all . |
| 18 | Although we were very happy with much of this document , there were a few sections about which we had reservations , and on which we submitted detailed comments . |
| 19 | The central drives are those to which we gave considerable prominence at the start of this book , and are those associated with survival and identity , as well as with the preservation and expansion of family , kin and blood relations . |
| 20 | ‘ Project 1990 ’ , which we started two years ago , is a great help here and is a process that must and will continue . |
| 21 | And this would be somewhat ironic given the definition of social psychology with which we started this discussion . |
| 22 | As Harry says in the play with which we started this chapter : |
| 23 | This question was the principal focus of Obair 's first Briefing Paper on the Making Belfast Work initiative which we issued last September ( and which is available at this conference ) . |
| 24 | On Thursday March 9 , Spare Rib hosted a forum to which we invited eleven women representing a broad range of positions within the women 's movement . |
| 25 | There were the Bingley summer courses , and those at Grantley to which we invited professional painters to meet and work with West Riding teachers . |
| 26 | Erm , the arrangement erm I think for this concert arise on the er er sheet which we distributed last week and the week before , er |
| 27 | In this regard we wondered if he had opinions about certain taxonomic questions , after which we listed several problems that were currently being debated by the scientific community . |
| 28 | In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon . |
| 29 | These reports followed our earlier study in which we reported similar findings in animals with experimentally induced colonic inflammation . |