Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Koch decided that no exchange could be located within 1,000 feet of a school , which ruled out the possibility of a communitybased programme . |
| 2 | Saunders has a cloud over him with the possibility of legal action by Paul Elliott over a tackle which ruled out the Chelsea defender for the season . |
| 3 | Six Senior Clerks were each in charge of the Consular , the Slave Trade and four political departments , which divided up the world between them into convenient geographical areas . |
| 4 | It was wild countryside , steep hills and grassy plateaux , scarred and gashed by steel-grey rocks and rapid , frothing rivers which tumbled down the hillside . |
| 5 | He was joint editor of the English Historical Review , 1939–58 ; professor of history in the University of Edinburgh from 1945 till his resignation on health grounds in 1954 ; and in 1951–2 Ford 's lecturer in Oxford , delivering the lectures which became probably the most widely known of his books , King George III and the Politicians ( 1953 ) . |
| 6 | His wide experience , combined with great technical and organizing abilities , enabled him to achieve improved efficiency in the railway workshops , which became all the more necessary when during the war tank , gun , and aircraft production and repair were added to their activities . |
| 7 | They took an alley which doubled back the way they had come and then they branched off it . |
| 8 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 9 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 10 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 11 | L 20 , p. 19 ) , which laid down the principle of equal access to fishing grounds ; ( b ) the thirtieth recital in the Preamble to Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3796/81 on the common organisation of the market in fishery products ( Official Journal 1981 No . |
| 12 | The SLORC issued a statement on July 27 which laid down the powers and responsibilities of the newly elected People 's Assembly , but gave no indication as to when it would be allowed to convene . |
| 13 | Bills seeking to exclude various categories of placemen from Parliament were introduced on average once every session between 1692 and 1714 , and a general measure banning all placemen from the Commons found its way into the Act of Settlement of 1701 ( which laid down the conditions on which the Hanoverians would succeed to the throne ) , although this provision was subsequently modified before the Act came into effect . |
| 14 | The Labour Party had Ramsay MacDonald 's voice and presence , the loyalty of much of the bunkered working class , and a manifesto which avoided both the advantages and disadvantages of precision . |
| 15 | But the appalling Carl Douglas and Rubettes are just as potent salvagers of memory as Mike Oldfield and the Pink Floyd , because theirs was the music of harrowing , lust-ridden parties and halitotic discos ; theirs was the music which made up the soundtrack of the most exciting moments of our lives . |
| 16 | It was this group of active questioners which made up the hard core of the evangelists who spread the new Christian teachings or ‘ Gospel ’ to many parts of the northern hemisphere . |
| 17 | Though delighting to read in Blackwood 's of the exploits of imperial heroes , the educated British public showed little personal inclination for service in the assorted white men 's graves which made up the tropical dependencies . |
| 18 | The blocking was all the various moves which made up the pattern of each scene . |
| 19 | With the relaxed detachment of a man who has an implicit trust in his technology , Vologsky cast his eyes over the bewildering array of instruments which made up the control panel , taking note of the few facts he actually needed to know . |
| 20 | Many of the elements which made up the relocation package applied equally to eligible staff moving from Kent and north London , for example , the payment of removal expenses , disturbance allowance and house expenses . |
| 21 | Both were compatible with the republican-radical ideals which made up the official ideology of the Third Republic and which in 1880 meant in the main a deep distrust of Russia , the oppressor of the Poles . |
| 22 | How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ? |
| 23 | She and Allan has , so far as the plot goes , the look of an afterthought , with a patchwork plot full of echoes of Quatermain 's other adventures and placing Ayesha in the same kind of danger from rebellion and rivalry which made up the story lines of She and Ayesha . |
| 24 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 25 | The aim of the second Columbus video was to address the main issues raised by staff following the video and briefings which made up the March cascade . |
| 26 | The same went for the glass underfoot ; another half-metre of water lay underneath the transparent slabs which made up the floor , gurgling under the scratched surface and around the slaty pedestals supporting the columns above . |
| 27 | Clearly some rulers and ministers were being affected in the second half of the century by the complex and often conflicting currents which made up the great intellectual movement of the Enlightenment ( see Chap . |
| 28 | They passed Scotland Yard ; Westminster Abbey came into sight ; the tower of St Margaret 's and the roofs , turrets and gables , shop-dwellings , houses and taverns , which made up the small city of Westminster . |
| 29 | Markovic said that the country 's fortunes now rested largely on the conduct of the various republics and autonomous regions which made up the federation . |
| 30 | Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed . |