Example sentences of "which [vb past] between the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , despite the five centuries which passed between the creation of these two buildings and their different geographical location , they have much in common . |
| 2 | ‘ He is still angry at the two-week delay which occurred between the day he was tested and the way the results were announced in such a public manner . ’ |
| 3 | A visiting minister performed the burial service , a man who was lending the chapel a helping hand during the interregnum which came between the departure of Samuel Saunders and the arrival of Thomas Fox Newman . |
| 4 | The Migration period which intervened between the decline of Rome and the emergence of European nations witnessed a marked change in the way garnets were used to embellish gold work . |
| 5 | For , unlike conquerors before and after , the Romans did not only take from their subject peoples , they contributed also , and the result of these contributions in road communications , law and administration , heating systems , architecture and art has had a permanent effect in Europe despite the 1000 years which intervened between the collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance . |
| 6 | Durkheim felt that these tasks should be performed by groups — such as professions and other occupational groups — which intermediated between the individual and the state . |
| 7 | It formed on the north side of the expanding lapetus Ocean which opened between the North Atlantic and Eurasian continents in late Precambrian times . |
| 8 | About fifty metres from the car she discovered a passageway which sliced between the terraces . |
| 9 | The incident which gave rise to the charge is indicative of the high , and often explosive , tension which existed between the NSFU and breakaway BSU men in Glasgow . |
| 10 | First , the philosophical source from which citizenship emerged needs to be recognized , as does the relationship which existed between the philosophy and New Liberalism . |
| 11 | In a biography about the former England captain about to be published , the rift which existed between the pair for the final 15 months of Lineker 's international career is at last revealed . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , some of the tension which existed between the police and black communities in the 1960s appears to have been relieved by an increase in the number of elected black politicians and their moderating influence on police policy : ‘ The growth of elected and appointed black people in the political system means that racialist and violent police behaviour comes to be more and more criticised and highlighted ’ ( Kilson , 1987:59 ) . |
| 13 | On Merseyside the ore at some stage probably entered into that unexpected and unusual relationship which existed between the soda , salt , glass , soap , and chemical industries . |
| 14 | Over the 1950s , for example , large amounts of US capital were invested in Britain because of the wide productivity gap which existed between the economies . |
| 15 | There is also a complete and intimate record of the acrimonious relationship which developed between the Norwich Union Insurance Company and the founding manager of its London office in Edwardian times . |
| 16 | A less stormy sequence of events lay behind the conclusion of an alliance between the houses of Foix-Béarn and L'Isle Jourdain , lords of the frontier zone which lay between the lands of Armagnac , Foix and the comté of Toulouse . |
| 17 | But she was old enough to be assigned a dowry , a stretch of land which lay between the rivers Seine , Epte and Andelle , known as the Norman Vexin . |
| 18 | The Renaissance State consisted , at bottom , of an ever-expanding bureaucracy which , although at first a working bureaucracy , had by the end of the sixteenth century become a parasitic bureaucracy ; and this ever expanding bureaucracy was sustained on an equally expanding margin of ‘ waste ’ : ‘ waste ’ which lay between the taxes imposed on the subjects and the revenue collected by the Crown . |
| 19 | Yuan and Alexei were seated on the far side of the space which lay between the tables . |
| 20 | This should not be confused with the later usage of Slavonia , which , in a geographical sense , refers to a region of south-east Croatia centred on Slavonski Brod , but in a wider context is used to cover the historic Habsburg province of Slavonia , which lay between the valleys of the Sava and the Drava . |
| 21 | Martha waved to Elizabeth , as she ran down the side of the field of oats which lay between the farm and the beckside path . |
| 22 | The enmity which ensued between the NSFU and the Amalgamated Marine Workers continued until 1927 when Wilson finally forced the latter out of existence . |
| 23 | It was the only institution which was able to keep alive the sense of national identity during three and a half centuries of subjugation to foreign rule , which stretched between the fall of Smederovo in 1459 and the revolt of Karadjordje in 1804 . |
| 24 | He examined it closer , and it was only then he noticed the faint crack which ran between the edges of the tiles . |
| 25 | Where , in one place the track was lined with trees which stood between the carriage and the sun , she became gratefully aware of the cool shade cast by their dense foliage . |
| 26 | The porter threw one venomous look at Ranulf , slammed the jack of ale down on the bench , grumblingly unlocked the postern door and led them out on to the white , dusty forest track which snaked between the trees down to Godstowe village . |
| 27 | They rode through the wicket gate of the church , following the pathway which snaked between the trees and overgrown graves to the Norman church which stood on the brow of a small hillock . |