Example sentences of "which in the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was precisely the lack of consensus about Thebes ' — or anybody else 's — leadership which in the fifth century led to federalism of so unusual and developed a kind , and which gave Boiotia the cohesion , and the manpower , to defeat Sparta at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 2 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 4 | This improved the price-competitiveness of Turkish exports , which in the first quarter of 1991 rose by 10 per cent over the previous year , with Germany continuing as their largest single-country market . |
| 5 | It 's a two year project , which in the first year includes three large seminars and the production of a number of booklets together with a training video . |
| 6 | An initial Ir £20m is to be invested in the plant at Leixit in County Kildare , which in the first phase will produce computer systems . |
| 7 | With the sum their husbands allowed them , wives organised the family budget , which in the first place involved solving the food/rent equation . |
| 8 | In the case of childbirth , which in the nineteenth century so often proved fatal , there was a certain disposition — at least among males — to believe that to relieve the pains of labour would be to interfere with what had been divinely preordained ; indeed the Bible could be quoted to this effect . |
| 9 | There were also , throughout the century , various international bodies ( which in the nineteenth century , as now , frequently meant bodies dominated by or confined to Britain and America ) concerned with promoting various radical reforms or building up new ventures like Sunday Schools . |
| 10 | It was Samuel Heinicke who pioneered the pure oral system of teaching the deaf in Germany with the foundation of his school in 1760 , a method of teaching which has persisted in that country ever since and which in the nineteenth century came to be known as the ‘ German System ’ . |
| 11 | Extracting this sort of consolation prize from the Bourbon candidate was the first stage of Britain 's advance into the Mediterranean , which in the nineteenth century was followed by a series of acquisitions which led to control of the route to the east . |
| 12 | They offered some credence to the contemporaneous growth in anti-semitism : limited and localized though this was , Jewish migrants were criticized and condemned in very similar terms to those later invoked against post-Second World War black immigrants , and which in the nineteenth century had been raised against the Irish . |
| 13 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 14 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 15 | Moreover , since there is no irreducible kernel of class interest which in the last analysis guides all else , the ideas , the culture , the religion of a given society may well play a critical role in explaining social and political development . |
| 16 | The principal excursion is to the churches and ruins of Old Goa , which in the sixteenth century had a population more than twice the size of London . |
| 17 | Money which in the sixteenth century had played merely a marginal , though a necessary part , now became the one thing necessary for the maintenance of life … |
| 18 | Ergotimos and Kleitias seem to be the inventors of a more elegant type , the ‘ Little Master ’ , which in the next generation settled into two forms , ‘ Lip-cup ’ ( fig. 50 ) and ‘ Band-cup ’ ( fig. 51 ) . |
| 19 | There was a most serious consequence : Spanish trade , throughout the nineteenth century , was unable to conquer the import surplus , which in the eighteenth century had been concealed by the export of American silver . |