Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , bloated catalogues bulged with inferior stock and works which properly belonged in the routine day sales and had been promoted in order to provide ballast for the smarter evening sessions . |
| 2 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 3 | The Committee accepted the prototypes first , which duly arrived in January 1934 and were placed on display in Talbot Square ( Opposite ) . |
| 4 | There seemed to be wide horizontal bands of light which slowly changed in intensity , with brighter spots growing and fading in places mysteriously against the deeps of eternity . |
| 5 | It was here that disenchantment with the liberalism of the New Deal and its successor the Great Society began setting in , which eventually culminated in the landslide victories for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s . |
| 6 | This fascinating display holds , and reveals to you the vital spirit which eventually triumphed in 1945 . |
| 7 | A gradual process began in countries liberated by the Red Army , which eventually resulted in governments across eastern Europe using police-state methods and carrying out Soviet-style economic reforms , the very antithesis of liberal democracy . |
| 8 | Pet writhed , which only succeeded in making her sink even quicker . |
| 9 | He was born in Leeds in 1789 and trained as an architect , but by 1830 had taken over the fight against child abuses from Robert Owen ( q.v. ) , and conducted a vigorous campaign for a ten-hour day , which only succeeded in 1847 with the passing of the Ten Hour Bill limiting the working hours of all those aged up to eighteen . |
| 10 | Richmann and his remaining man ran a few yards after the departing car , blazing away with a frustrated volley which only succeeded in blowing a few holes out of the bodywork and setting fire to the rear-mounted spare wheel . |
| 11 | But BBC boss-to-be John Birt has already had enough of the sun , sex and sangria saga , which only started in July . |
| 12 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 13 | AI groups campaigned for his release which finally came in 1987 . |
| 14 | First established as a concept by the Catalan artist in 1984 when he announced that he would be donating 300 paintings and 3000 graphic works to the city of Barcelona , the Fundació was the subject of protracted negotiations with the local autonomous government and the Ministry of Culture in Madrid , which finally resulted in a handsome level of funding for building in which to house them . |
| 15 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 16 | They arrived at the restaurant , were shown to a table , handed menus and started a reasonably convivial conversation either about Ken 's rearend , the radio show or about Pieces of Eight which finally closed in the autumn of 1960 . |
| 17 | King Husayn used this situation to persuade the PLO to embark upon its risky alliance with Jordan in pursuit of a peace solution , which finally collapsed in early 1986 . |
| 18 | Neale 's thesis was challenged in 1982 by Norman Jones , who exposed a number of errors in his argument and demonstrated that the religious settlement which finally emerged in 1559 was the one that had been originally planned by the government . |
| 19 | From the spartan Moon era , which finally ended in 1891 , Wolverton Works under Park 's leadership developed a palatial standard . |
| 20 | He had two almost contemporary biographies and a wealth of oral tradition to draw on , and out of these materials he made a lively and dramatic portrait , full of sentiment and warmth , which easily outdistanced in popularity the biographies written by later writers who tried to do better . |
| 21 | In that case , at any rate , there was little question of the boys ' dispute creating a relationship of permanent hostility between the two groups ; and this was in part the consequence of the wider peace , sanctioned by authority , which generally prevailed in Libya . |
| 22 | He suggested that if the RAC were to be re-constituted with equality of representation and parity of esteem between the Board and the WEA , an arrangement which already existed in the University/WEA Joint Tutorial Classes Committee , the procedures followed by that committee over the appointment of tutors and approval of syllabuses would clearly offer a satisfactory solution . |
| 23 | Ceauşescu 's obsession with numbers ought to have been satisfied by the overmanning which already existed in Romanian industry which could not really provide productive employment for the existing population . |
| 24 | Many of these were connected ultimately with traditions of pastoral care which already existed in the Early Church . |
| 25 | The aggressive reaction in favour of Sacheverell at this time , however , should not obscure the fact that the whole affair merely served to fuel religious tensions which already existed in many parts of the country . |
| 26 | The picturesque result and subsequent offers to purchase , for substantially more than the couple had paid , were not lost on Jill 's father , chairman of a company which already specialised in timber frame building . |
| 27 | Marx 's theory is an attempt to accept both types of accounts of the Orient and to explain the apparent unity of states often made up of previously independent units which nevertheless co-operated in great communal works such as road building ( among the Inca ) and large-scale irrigation ( in Asia ) . |
| 28 | On the other hand , even efficient ‘ managers ’ , such as Lord Ilay or Henry Dundas , could never claim absolute mastery of Scotland in fact , whatever they may have alleged to their colleagues , for no manager ever possessed a monopoly of desirable patronage , some of which always remained in private hands . |
| 29 | The real price though , has been paid by the wildlife which once lived in Cannop brook . |
| 30 | It is the last remaining of four windmills which once stood in the town . |