Example sentences of "that which [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the campaign against the Japanese army still raging he observed , ‘ We have in Burma a potentially dangerous situation … not dissimilar to that which developed in Southern Ireland after the [ last ] war . ’ |
| 2 | If the same set of appearances could be saved by each mathematical model , then why should one be privileged as that which corresponded to physical reality ? |
| 3 | As we have seen , higher education in the Principality has assumed a quite different form from that which existed in 1970 so that we now have ten institutions of higher education made up of the Polytechnic of Wales , three national colleges , and six colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 4 | It was basically a neighbourly association of kin and workmates , not dissimilar to that which existed in many urban working-class neighbourhoods , but which the outsider could find virtually impenetrable . |
| 5 | The loss of the documents appears to be a more serious breach of security than that which occurred in 1979 , when the IRA obtained a copy of a secret Army intelligence assessment . |
| 6 | It is possible that a ‘ fire storm ’ condition developed in the town , similar to that which occurred in several German cities during the last war , when saturation bombing raids started so many fires that the city became effectively one big fire , sucking into itself hurricane force winds to bring fresh oxygen to the heart of the inferno . |
| 7 | Reports reached Washington that the Shah was hoping for a restoration similar to that which occurred in 1953 . |
| 8 | That which ended in 1774 resulted in the Treaty of Kutchuk Kainardji ( Kücük Kaynarca ) , which wrested the Khanate of Crimea from the Turks and gave the Russians the right to protect the Christian subjects of the sultan . |
| 9 | Montagu welcomed dissent in India as a sign of blossoming political maturity , and distinguished confidently between legitimate and illegitimate unrest — the latter being that which had for its object ‘ Home Rule ’ , the former that which aspired to political responsibility to the degree the British saw fit to give it . |