Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem has been compounded by the hot summers of 1989-90 which increased the rate of soil evaporation , thereby further reducing the amount of water which penetrated through to the aquifers . |
| 2 | The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge . |
| 3 | Theodora followed the hair-cord runner down the middle of the dark hall to a door behind the staircase which led through to the kitchen . |
| 4 | When interrogated by the FBI in his British jail , Fuchs identified photographs of one of his contacts , Harry Gold , who named a trail of others which led eventually to an obscure machine-shop manager of Russian parentage , Julius Rosenberg , and his wife Ethel . |
| 5 | That is exactly what Jesus did by becoming man , travelling the road which led eventually to the cross . |
| 6 | ‘ Can I get to my room round this way ? ’ asked Belinda quickly as she slid her suitcases from Tom 's grasp and began to walk to the corner of the veranda which led around to the side of the house . |
| 7 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |
| 8 | It was painted while and there was an untidy hedge in front of it , divided by a rickety gate which led on to a short path to the front door . |
| 9 | But what kind of battle ? she wondered apprehensively , discovering an exit from this bedroom which led on to a terrace , with an archway framing a velvety night sky filled with bright silver stars . |
| 10 | The great events of his administration were the return to the gold standard , the Treaty of Locarno , the General Strike , the Imperial Conference of 1926 which led on to the Statute of Westminster , and the measures originating in the Ministry of Health for the reform of local government and the extension of social security . |
| 11 | It required the outbreak of war and the threatened imminence of defeat to produce the power-sharing of 1940 , which led on to the power transference of 1945 . |
| 12 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 13 | In this perspective , it was industrialization and urbanization which triggered those processes and which led ultimately to a weakening of family ties , and especially ties with kin outside the so-called ‘ conjugal family ’ composed of a couple and their immature children ( Morgan , 1975 , ch. 2 ; Harris , 1983 , chs. 6–8 ) . |
| 14 | It was the beginning of our curiosity about each other which led ultimately to a mutual understanding and respect upon which our friendship became firmly based . |
| 15 | Good humour helped to see Victor through his prolonged ill health , caused by a lung complaint which led ultimately to a transplant operation from which he did not recover . |
| 16 | The net result was that the stiffness distribution of the structure was significantly altered , creating the high fastener loadings which led ultimately to the fatigue failure in the rear spar top chord . |
| 17 | And this organization , which sought to protect the rights of the newly colonized , provided much of the original intellectual and moral impetus which led ultimately to the formation of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain . |
| 18 | It is of far greater historical significance that the legends of Kosovo helped to keep alive for centuries the spark of Serbian national consciousness which burst into flame with the Karadjordje revolt of 1804 , and which led ultimately to the founding of an independent Serbian kingdom . |
| 19 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 20 | ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem . |
| 21 | Again , there was no direct reference to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ about the destruction of European Jewry , though the whole section of the report was placed under a quotation from the speech which led up to the passage on the Jews : that in the light of the suffering of the Germans at the hands of others , people should ‘ keep well away from us with their humanitarianism ’ . |
| 22 | Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney . |
| 23 | This region played a relatively small part in the struggles which led up to the Sandinista revolution . |
| 24 | Kelly walked up the steps into the hall of the Garrick towards the wide staircase which led up to the bar , then hesitated . |
| 25 | Detailed Description : the steps which led up to the problem and any messages or codes that were included . |
| 26 | These are constitutive luck — the kind of person one is ; contemporary circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances in which one is placed ; antecedent circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances which led up to the situation one faces ; and consequential luck — the way things turn out . |
| 27 | She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent . |
| 28 | This appeal concerns the four younger children , although the two elder boys played a part in the events which led up to the present situation . |
| 29 | The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park . |
| 30 | He turned off along one of the dimly-lit back streets and , making the most of his bump of direction , arrived at the foot of the steep slope which led up to The Brigantine , the pub where Tony had taken him . |