Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] two " in BNC.
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1 | It was certainly something which operated on two unusually distinct levels . |
2 | Their claim , which failed in two Courts of Inquiry , continued to fester . |
3 | In Indonesia a large part of the argument which led on two occasions to undeclared war turned on the federal nature of the new state . |
4 | Add to that a lot of nervousness which led to two false starts , and nobody was too happy , except perhaps Ernie Obeng who just pipped the American Darwin Cook to win . |
5 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
6 | Initially , they simply put together a series of guidelines , concerned with scale , height and the street network between the buildings , which amounted to two sheets of paper that they sent to the developer . |
7 | The Russian minister sent to Constantinople in 1724 was ordered to choose four students to be attached to his staff to learn the language ; while the establishment of 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which provided for two students to be attached to each Russian mission abroad , allowed that in the Turkish capital to have as many as eight . |
8 | The most recent volcanic rocks are the Cretaceous kimberlites which erupted in two pulses : group II ( 120–150Myr ) and group I ( 80–95Myr ) . |
9 | We began by exploring her beliefs about relationships with men , which came from two main sources . |
10 | An organization calling itself the Mujahidin Kashmir claimed responsibility for planting bombs which exploded at two New Delhi police stations on April 10 , injuring nine policemen . |
11 | To obtain additional internal volume and a satisfactory relationship between new floor levels and existing or modified window openings , the original ground floor , which consisted of two panels of suspended timber construction under the areas formerly accommodating pews , separated and flanked by strips of tiled floor on a solid base where the gangways ran , was removed to give a further 400mm ( 16in ) of height . |
12 | I was accepted as part of the family , which consisted of two daughters and a grandfather , ; the husband had died many years before . |
13 | Martha set confidently to work in Grace 's galley , which consisted of two gas rings in the bows connected to a Calor cylinder , and a brass sink . |
14 | South of the temple an attractive odeon , or concert-hall , was brought to light along the northern edge ofthe vast agora complex , which consisted of two long porticoes that have also been partly excavated and restored . |
15 | To take the trip to Meudon and to visit Jacques and Raissa Maritain , and also her sister — a visit which turned into two visits — was most rewarding . |
16 | As the data from a statistically more developed country in Table 2 demonstrate , though there were drastic changes in the level of infant mortality which decreased by two thirds during the last three decades , the relationship between maternal age and infant mortality , as shown by the quadrennial data , remained basically the same . |
17 | Among these were PPB , which survived in two departments until the mid 1970s , PAR and MBO , which flourished in a few pilot studies . |
18 | Although Catriona Lambert , the first round leader , managed an opening 76 which took in two eagles where her ball chased downwind at two of the par-5s , there was many a disaster story . |
19 | She wore the New Look , a coat of beige gaberdine which fell in two swaying , graceful pleats from her waist at the back ( the swaying must have come from very high heels , but I did n't notice her shoes ) , a hat tipped forward from hair swept up . |
20 | Early studies took the form of a competition between Boeing and NAA which resulted in two grossly overweight designs . |
21 | It has been brought to the forefront of our minds in a most horrible way — by the recent series of shocking attacks on police officers in London , which resulted in two officers being killed and two others receiving terrible injuries . |
22 | The Bulgarian government agreed to spend £6 million on safety improvements following an undisclosed accident in October last year , which resulted in two of the plant 's four reactors being shut down . |
23 | In order to create sufficient headroom within the studio , it was necessary to remove an existing tie-beam which spanned between two timber posts that helped to support the roof structure and to adapt and re-site this member at a higher level , just below the soffit of the ceiling ( Plate 11 ) . |
24 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
25 | The seminar , which ran for two days , was attended by some 300 people . |
26 | The turning-point in Lynn 's career came in 1922 when Leslie Henson and Tom Walls [ qq.v. ] cast him in Tons of Money , a sparkling farce which ran for two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre . |
27 | Lilacs had been twined about the balcony which ran round two sides of the courtyard and over the deep , ancient arches of the north and west walls . |
28 | Hastening north towards the Musselshell River early the next morning , the Nez Perce fought a fierce rearguard action against Sturgis ' Bannock and Crow scouts which continued for two days and resulted in the deaths of one Nez Perce warrior and two old men , and the capture of forty horses . |
29 | The protests , which continued for two days , were sparked mainly by price rises . |