Example sentences of "which [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holmes à Court was obliged by the law against foreign control of ITV to sell his shares , which passed to Sears , a conglomerate including footwear and the William Hill betting shops . |
| 2 | These losses were expected to be offset by increases in the value of oil exports , which doubled to $210,000,000 a month in July-September . |
| 3 | But more often they took the little leafy lane which led from Thrush Green to Upper Pleshy , Nod and Nidden , the lane that threaded half a dozen or more sleepy thatched villages , like hoary old beads upon its winding string , before it emerged upon the broad highway which led to Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The free-kick from Cruz that beat Italy was one , and the run and cross from Jorginho which led to Careca heading the winner in Rotterdam another , but in these games Brazil have impressed as a team without making you want to leap out of your seat as Pele once did . |
| 6 | It was this statement of the law which led to outcries that it was a ‘ Rapist 's Charter ’ . |
| 7 | IBM Corp 's fall from grace , which led to Standard & Poor 's Corp downgrading its senior ratings to double-A-minus from triple-A , has not affected the triple-A asset-backed certificate ratings of IBM 1990 , 1991 and 1992 Tax-Exempt Grantor Trusts , the rating agency said after reviewing the situation . |
| 8 | The rocket launch system , developed via Véronique and Diamant , which led to Ariane , was initially conceived for the French military . |
| 9 | MISGUIDED EDITOR , BADLY MISLED BY MISINFORMED JOURNALIST , DID NOT REALISE THE IMPORTANCE OF ATTENDING BAIE SEMINAR AT DUNDAS AND WILSON ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY , AND LOSES JOB IN CONSEQUENCE OF IGNORANCE WHICH LED TO LITIGATION AGAINST HIS EMPLOYERS , THE JOURNALIST & HIMSELF … |
| 10 | Decisive battles , the death of kings in battle or the life imprisonment of great men were rare events ; and against the very exceptional , decisive outcome of the battles of 1066 and 1106 we must set the endless , indecisive campaigns of William I and Henry I on the borders of their French domains ; the indecisive warfare of Stephen 's reign which led to anarchy in England . |
| 11 | Other areas covered , plus Who 's Who , records , and report on the tangle over Raman Lambda 's registration , which led to court action . |
| 12 | This was the reasoning which led to discussions on the possibility of a European Political Community . |
| 13 | Those tears , which led to dismissal , could have been seen as a source of energy and redirected by an understanding supervisor to a powerful commitment to doing the work well . |
| 14 | It was his behaviour which led to problems in the marriage . |
| 15 | Manuel also took the free kick which led to Brentford 's second in the 18th minute , Gayle sending in a cracker from 18 yards . |
| 16 | The latter is not relevant because under section 40 B is not guilty unless his act or default which led to A's conduct in question was committed by B ‘ in the course of any business of his . ’ |
| 17 | He charged Sewell with the maintenance of discipline in the College ( which led to Sewell recommending the expulsion of only one pupil , although some students paid too much attention to tavern and skittle-ground ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In this new arena , it has to be businesslike — late startups for some government contracts have meant cost cutting at the end this financial year , which led to newspaper reports of a ‘ crisis ’ at WSL . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And what function do we accord , then , to Hitler 's public persona in explaining the process which led to Auschwitz ? |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Wise was also centre stage in the incident which led to Chelsea 's 40th-minute winner . |
| 24 | An early mistake by Liam Dunne which led to Jim McInally chipping the 14th minute opener past Rhodes set the pattern for the game . |
| 25 | This requires us to reverse the steps which led to eqn ( 7.9 ) . |
| 26 | VINNY Jones revealed it was a ‘ toe-job ’ which led to Paul Gascoigne 's grimace in the famous photo of their close encounter . |
| 27 | Not the least of the offences which led to Paul 's assassination in 1801 was his contemptuous treatment of courtiers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is the purpose of this article to offer a preliminary analysis of the events which led to Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign . |