Example sentences of "which in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was precisely the lack of consensus about Thebes ' — or anybody else 's — leadership which in the fifth century led to federalism of so unusual and developed a kind , and which gave Boiotia the cohesion , and the manpower , to defeat Sparta at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 2 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 3 | Tatian was also influential for making a harmony of the four gospels which in the Syriac-speaking churches of the East long remained the standard lectionary text . |
| 4 | Consequently , the starting point for the restoration of the equilibrium must be its disruption , the function of which in the present case is to restore the balance , but at the same time on an even more deeply contradictory basis . |
| 5 | The assumption made in empirical studies is that a selective excise is passed on fully , and that there is no change in factor incomes , which in the present context means , and . |
| 6 | An arbitrary temperature T o is first chosen to serve as a reference which in the present case is 298 K. As values of the relaxation modulus have been measured at widely differing temperatures , they must be corrected for changes in the sample density with temperature to give a reduced modulus , where ρ and ρ o are the polymer densities at T and T o respectively . |
| 7 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 8 | He said that " intellectual terrorism " was incompatible with true religious thinking , and made indirect allusion to the phenomenon of Islamic investment companies , which in the late 1980s had attracted the savings of small investors . |
| 9 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 10 | It was a town of about 2000 people which in the 1750s served a wide inland area , with a deep-sea fishing fleet and a reasonable coastal trade , considering that it lacked a harbour . |
| 11 | Section 1 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 , as amended , defines registrable designs as being : … features of shape , configuration or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process , being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye . |
| 12 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Wood shortages for both uses are now widespread , not least because many rainforest areas outside the reserves , which in the pre-1960 period supplied about 50 per cent of the country 's timber output , are now exhausted . |
| 14 | An initial Ir £20m is to be invested in the plant at Leixit in County Kildare , which in the first phase will produce computer systems . |
| 15 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 16 | With the sum their husbands allowed them , wives organised the family budget , which in the first place involved solving the food/rent equation . |
| 17 | This improved the price-competitiveness of Turkish exports , which in the first quarter of 1991 rose by 10 per cent over the previous year , with Germany continuing as their largest single-country market . |
| 18 | It 's a two year project , which in the first year includes three large seminars and the production of a number of booklets together with a training video . |
| 19 | Probably a much better bet is Darlington 's ‘ Mission Impossible , ’ which in the new issue has fulsome praise for Northern Ventures Northern Gains the Northern League magazine with which we have some slight connection . |
| 20 | The solution adopted in both cases was to look to the transaction the parties to which typically carried on business in different States and to ignore the transaction which in the typical case was domestic . |
| 21 | In the case of childbirth , which in the nineteenth century so often proved fatal , there was a certain disposition — at least among males — to believe that to relieve the pains of labour would be to interfere with what had been divinely preordained ; indeed the Bible could be quoted to this effect . |
| 22 | There were also , throughout the century , various international bodies ( which in the nineteenth century , as now , frequently meant bodies dominated by or confined to Britain and America ) concerned with promoting various radical reforms or building up new ventures like Sunday Schools . |
| 23 | It was Samuel Heinicke who pioneered the pure oral system of teaching the deaf in Germany with the foundation of his school in 1760 , a method of teaching which has persisted in that country ever since and which in the nineteenth century came to be known as the ‘ German System ’ . |
| 24 | Extracting this sort of consolation prize from the Bourbon candidate was the first stage of Britain 's advance into the Mediterranean , which in the nineteenth century was followed by a series of acquisitions which led to control of the route to the east . |
| 25 | They offered some credence to the contemporaneous growth in anti-semitism : limited and localized though this was , Jewish migrants were criticized and condemned in very similar terms to those later invoked against post-Second World War black immigrants , and which in the nineteenth century had been raised against the Irish . |
| 26 | The artifact , thus , functions merely as an external signifier … for which in the collective consciousness there is a corresponding signification |
| 27 | ‘ The council provides the site , I take care of their £400,000 investment which in the current economic climate they ca n't find , and the LTA gives me their £200,000 grant to run it . |
| 28 | This warm current generally flows around about Christmas time ( which in the southern hemisphere of course is in summer ) and so the local people call it ‘ El Niño ’ , which means ‘ the little child ’ , referring to the Christ child . |
| 29 | The final partition of the inheritance in 1474 also brought him Chesterfield and Scarsdale ( Derbs. ) and Bushey ( Herts. ) which in the following year he exchanged with the crown for more land in Yorkshire : a further piece of Cottingham ; the royal castle and lordship of Scarborough ; and land in Falsgrave , with the fee farm there . |
| 30 | The final partition of the inheritance in 1474 also brought him Chesterfield and Scarsdale ( Derbs. ) and Bushey ( Herts. ) which in the following year he exchanged with the crown for more land in Yorkshire : a further piece of Cottingham ; the royal castle and lordship of Scarborough ; and land in Falsgrave , with the fee farm there . |