Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most had already lit their fore-and-aft lamps , which twinkled like glow-worms in the gathering dusk . |
| 2 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
| 3 | Founded in 1860 by a group of railwaymen at the Eastern Counties Railway works at Stratford , it had progressed steadily , in part through amalgamation with smaller societies at Canning Town in 1882 , Plaistow in 1883 and Beckton in 1892 , all of which centred on colonies of skilled and semiskilled labour ( Marriott 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Hitherto , the Frelimo president was also President of the Republic ; the proposed change followed discussions at the fifth Frelimo congress in July 1989 , which centred on ways to broaden popular support for the party and strengthen national unity [ see p. 36804 ] . |
| 5 | North America jumped 27 per cent to £41.3 million , but Coats 's Achilles ' heel continues to be Brazil , which plunged into losses of £15.7 million , after profits of £1.5 million in 1991 . |
| 6 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 7 | Then the water vapour which condensed into oceans must have come from early volcanic activity and from the gaseous components of the solid Earth itself . |
| 8 | The summons on which he made the order was merely a summons which asked for directions and the form in which his order was couched was that of an order nisi which , subject to the time limits laid down in the order , gave an unqualified liberty to apply . |
| 9 | These were published in April 1985 as the Invitation to Promoters which asked for submissions by October of the same year . |
| 10 | Bullingdon is one of twelve prisons designed to ease the problem of overcrowding , which led to disturbances and riots at jails like Strangeways.Here , they 'll cater for 635 inmates in single or double cells with toilet facilities . |
| 11 | It was this statement of the law which led to outcries that it was a ‘ Rapist 's Charter ’ . |
| 12 | This was the reasoning which led to discussions on the possibility of a European Political Community . |
| 13 | It was his behaviour which led to problems in the marriage . |
| 14 | The 1990 disturbances were only the latest in a series of eruptions — in 1986,1988 and 1989 , which led to injuries and damage to prison buildings and equipment . |
| 15 | The didacticism of the nineteenth century which led to projects such as the Victoria and Albert Museum , the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Exposition Universelle of 1878 , gave birth to one of Paris 's great museums . |
| 16 | Support for it has come from the observation that both the brain and the conventional digital computer ( i.e. the one hard-wired only for its machine code ) seem to be surprisingly homogeneous in their internal structure , which led to remarks like Newell 's ( 1973 ) ‘ … intelligent behaviour demands only a few very general features in the underlying mechanism ’ . |
| 17 | At a time when the Royal Commission is examining the imbalance of resources available to the defence which led to miscarriages of justice , the Government is cutting access to legal help for the accused . |
| 18 | Many of the post-war inquiries were into big , difficult subjects , like the investigation carried out by Sir Edmund Compton into allegations of security force brutality in Northern Ireland , or the inquiry by Sir John Wolfenden into homosexual offences and prostitution , which led to changes in the law . |
| 19 | Mick Clarke and William Joyce pioneered the soapbox oratory which led to fights and attacks , sometimes by Fascists and sometimes by their opponents . |
| 20 | It all culminated in three days of frustration which led to complaints of ‘ disgusting crowd behaviour ’ from the German players . |
| 21 | Efforts to establish professional standards and provide a sound educational basis for doctors were accompanied by anxieties about their status , which led to doctors often adopting , it seemed to their critics , a priest-like role . |
| 22 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 23 | Investigators are working to establish whether vandals caused the fault in North Shields which led to trains being cancelled between Tynemouth nd Wallsend . |
| 24 | After 1898 the latter two of these castes were also excluded , a fact which led to protests from élite Salagamas when it became generally known . |
| 25 | There was subsequent correspondence with the Board of Trade , enquiring whether Parliamentary Powers and an inspection would be necessary for those lines which led to depôts and on which a public service would never be provided . |
| 26 | Four years ago , I argued with the then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security about the Fowler review , which led to cuts in income support . |
| 27 | John Mabb , UK director of the NZ Meat Producers Board , made only the briefest of references to last year 's imports of chilled lamb into Scotland which led to recriminations from farmers . |
| 28 | The Jack transfer was the first to command a five-figure fee , despite the fact that Arsenal were continuing to propose limits on transfer fees , which led to accusations of hypocrisy . |
| 29 | Some began to negotiate better terms for their own patients which led to accusations of a two-tier service . |
| 30 | It is understood that a teenage girl went with her mother to police in Southampton and made a statement which led to detectives reopening the inquiry . |