Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though a white cloak had been thrown over the entire countryside , a cloak which gleamed beneath an enormous ghostly-white moon , robbing the night of its darkness . |
| 2 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 3 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 4 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 5 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 6 | So , Fearnley was under continuous threat from the two or three agencies which operated on an international basis , and especially from the most powerful , Mike Martinez . |
| 7 | The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone . |
| 8 | ( i ) Liability for negligence.In Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland [ 1987 ] 2 All ER 620 the Court of Appeal upheld a finding that a clause in a plant hire contract requiring the hirer of an excavator to indemnify the owner against liability for loss caused by the driver 's negligence , which operated as an exclusion , was unreasonable . |
| 9 | He then stabbed Mr Kelly in the backside with the knife which penetrated to a depth of four to six inches . |
| 10 | Partial debt remission would reward enterprises which agreed on a restructuring programme with their creditors . |
| 11 | A notably successful example of a glass shot ( see page 44 ) appears in the Powell/Pressburger version of Rumer Godden 's 1938 novel , Black Narcissus ( 1947 ) , which centred on a small group of nuns in the Indian Himalayas . |
| 12 | The air was calm and , once freed of the camera ship , we set up Nigel 's preferred cruise setting of 2,200/25 inches , which translated into an indicated ( and , at 1,500 feet , probably very close to genuine ) 127 knots . |
| 13 | Mr Dubcek , 70 , whose reforms were crushed by the Soviets in 1968 , was being driven in a car which plunged into a ravine near Prague . |
| 14 | Outside , standing on a beer barrel , a member of the ward watch rang a hand bell which tolled like a death knell through the noisy clamour of the place . |
| 15 | Courier beat Stefan Edberg in the final , which failed by a large margin to live up to it 's billing . |
| 16 | There followed DCT 's attempt to fly the Mercury nonstop from Dundee to Cape Town , which failed by a relatively short distance , but nevertheless added considerably to the world 's seaplane records and is still the record today . |
| 17 | Underneath the black hair , the man 's fleshy lips curled into a grimace which passed for a smile . |
| 18 | England had been one of the first countries to adopt Gothic designs but was one of the last to relinquish the style which passed into a Perpendicular phase unique to the British Isles . |
| 19 | The successful schemes were unsentimental and transcended the apparent dilemma posed by the design brief which asked for a building which related to preformed and powerful sensibilities and beliefs about life and death and which is also required to be effectively energy conscious . |
| 20 | The leading element in this upheaval was the student movement , and although students became independently active in political life all over the world — in Eastern Europe and in the Third World just as much as in the West — the principal expression of a distinctive radical doctrine and mode of political action , which became to a large extent a model for the whole international movement , was to be found in the US , in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) . |
| 21 | The star attraction was a model of the Princes of Wales 's head which doubled as a playhouse , with her tongue as a slide ! |
| 22 | Craig Luxton , a New Zealand-born scrum-half on the England periphery , rubbed salt into the self-inflicted wounds with a series of tap-penalties and darting thrusts , one of which led to a 90-metre break-out and a second try for Gavin Thompson — one of the game 's few high points . |
| 23 | The colonists in North America were encouraged to partake of the new refreshment but were taxed on tea and other imports from 1765 onwards , which led to a trade in tea smuggling from Holland to avoid the taxes . |
| 24 | The Pier Head incident proved to be the turning point which led to a new period of industrial peace within the giant Vehicle Division , unfortunately too late to avoid the massive investment switch to the Continent which was already under way with the newly approved corporate plan . |
| 25 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
| 26 | Investigator Ken Randall found Gooda Walker had made unorthodox use of ‘ time and distance ’ insurance policies , which led to a possible £10 million overstatement of profits for 1988 on one syndicate , 290 . |
| 27 | Since her trial a year ago , which led to a six-year jail sentence , Winnie Mandela has been at liberty on bail , pending an appeal . |
| 28 | In 1927–28 , Miss Green revived the ailing WEA branch there with a Terminal course , followed by a One-Year course in the following year which led to a Tutorial Class from 1929–32 . |
| 29 | There was an increase in the population of central and northern Italy which led to a rapid development of agriculture , a rise in general prosperity and a subsequent increase in merchant goods . |
| 30 | A controversial television documentary at the end of 1983 on timber-frame houses , which led to a tumble in share prices for leading house-builders , was itself attacked for being ‘ technically ill-informed and misleading ’ . |