Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ shape-changing ’ qualities of the Queen of the Night may be associated with the moon , which waxes from dark to full and declines again . |
| 2 | The decision puts the EC ahead of other signatories of the Montreal Protocol , which agreed in November to phase out these chemicals by January 1996 . |
| 3 | At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne , which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river . |
| 4 | Every three months the library produces a bibliography which refers by categories to longer articles held in the library . |
| 5 | They repay your interest and capital together , in monthly instalments which change from time to time , as our interest rates change . |
| 6 | Within an hour Corbett and Selkirk , accompanied by a dozen mounted men-at-arms , were pounding along the muddy track which led from Edinburgh to the port of Leith . |
| 7 | The proposal in the review is that you probably will need to keep your joint care teams , your JCTs , which tend of course to be professionally and officer dominated , but there are strong feelings throughout the county , and one has to remember the run up to local government , erm , the local government commission is on , strong feelings especially from the voluntary sector , but also from the district councils , that there could be renewed dynamism at the local level , in terms of local care teams . |
| 8 | The project was to be a three-year one and was to employ one action project development officer in each of the two locations ( employed by Age Concern at its Research Unit ) and three researchers ( two employed by Age Concern at its Research Unit , and one , a research psychiatrist , employed by Guy 's Medical School ) ; in addition , the funding ( which amounted in total to approximately £250,000 ) was to cover the wages of local people to be employed specifically to work with dementia sufferers . |
| 9 | The government retained a minority share in the Sicartsa rolled steel mills which sold for $170,000,000 to the Villacero Group , while Grupo Acerero del Norte bought Altos Hornos de Mexico for $350,000,000 and took over $350,000,000 of its debt . |
| 10 | A more prurient depiction of childhood was Bouguereau 's ‘ Retour des Champs ’ , of a tousled-haired girl carrying a bundle of what seems to be herbs , which sold for $180,000 to the trade ( £103,400 ) ( est. $100–150,000 ) . |
| 11 | Although the term , delta , was originally derived from the Greek letter which approximates in shape to the Nile delta , it is generally used with a wider range of meanings today . |
| 12 | A FIRM which moved from London to Liverpool and doubled turnover in each of the past three years has moved to a prestige waterfront office block . |
| 13 | The firm had developed novel parallel processing software which worked like a ‘ worm ’ , spawning segments which moved from processor to processor . |
| 14 | , 37 , had been with the Company since 1982 and was part of the team which moved from Bletchley to Northampton . |
| 15 | The only other significant documented difference in the cash flow is a smaller than usual increase in the amount allowed for the imputed earnings of family labour , which rose by £1m to £56m . |
| 16 | THE sudden popularity of the Portuguese escudo , which rose from obscurity to a position of strength inside the European exchange rate mechanism after it joined a week ago , could lead to the removal of restrictions on foreign investment earlier than planned . |
| 17 | The bulk of Cluff 's turnover , which rose from £1.88m to £6.8m , was generated by gold mining in Zimbabwe . |
| 18 | Charles put on a low dynamic voice which rose in crescendo to an order . |
| 19 | Green Shopping Day ( this year called Green Consumer Day , and roping in interests as diverse as supermarkets , townswomen 's guilds and environmental groups ) was a thing entirely of SustainAbility 's own devising ; Hailes and Elkington had Lynne Franks PR working on the publicity , and some of their participating organisations — which ranged from Safeway to the World Wildlife Fund — paying for it . |
| 20 | Six thousand visitors made their way to the Business Design Centre in Islington , London to see the exhibits , which ranged from tableware to floorcoverings , fashion to fabrics . |
| 21 | Franco responded as he had done with Hitler , presenting a shopping list and saying that the provision of the items on it ( which ranged from aircraft to foodstuffs ) was a prerequisite for Spanish cooperation . |
| 22 | The junior supervisory rank in the service , the landwaiters , were paid a uniform salary of £25 , but the ordinary gaugers , or tidesmen , were paid as irregularly as their supervisors , with salaries which ranged from £20 to £12 . |
| 23 | ( He had also proposed a new electoral law , but on Jan. 16 the constitutional and legal committees of both chambers of parliament had refused to recommend his draft to the Jan. 21 joint session of parliament , preferring a draft put forward by deputies , which provided for votes to be cast for parties rather than individuals . ) |
| 24 | The second prong of the attack is reduced rates for the GEC Plessey Rabbit phone , which drops in price to £69 from £127.65 , and the Rabbit Recall package ( including the park and charge unit ) , which goes to £100 from £177 . |
| 25 | DAVID KILSBY David Kilsby joined the retail sales force in September as Merchandiser for the Southern area which covers from Cornwall to East Anglia . |
| 26 | In fact , the behaviour of the janissaries bred a smouldering resentment which erupted from time to time into acts of armed resistance . |
| 27 | By 1926 eleven British and four continental centres had opened ; in 1938 , with assets totalling £100,000 , 45,169 guest weeks were taken at the thirty British and twenty-two overseas centres which spread from Brittany to Poland and Czechoslovakia . |
| 28 | Currently the Commission is , however , considering giving grants towards pilot restoration projects in Venice , invoking the special clause of the structural funds which allows for grants to urban areas outside declining or under-developed regions . |
| 29 | It would also normally be advisable to have a term in the partnership deed which allows for disputes to be referred to arbitration , thereby avoiding the risks and costs of litigation . |
| 30 | Section 23 penalizes the intentional or reckless administration of any poison or noxious thing which results in danger to the victim 's life or grievous bodily harm ( maximum sentence of ten years ' imprisonment ) . |