Example sentences of "which went [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comparable recent conservation cause which went through the High Court and all the way to the Lords was an argument over navigational rights on the river Derwent . |
| 2 | Part of the track which went over the river Wey was supported by a ferro-concrete bridge — revolutionary in its day . |
| 3 | This is an ancient road , the middle one of the three Roman roads which went over the Pyrenees , though it is worth pursuing all the way to the frontier , in my view , only if you want to enter Spain ( the small , walled town of Jaca , half an hour or so 's drive down the other side , is extremely attractive ) . |
| 4 | He held that the judge had done nothing which went outside the proper area of his inquiry . |
| 5 | This attitude both belittles the quality of the author 's work and also underestimates the wide reading and research which went into the creation of her most famous character . |
| 6 | This force is an amalgam of nine smaller units ( Figure 2 ) , some of which went into the melting pot in 1969 . |
| 7 | If we are above a certain age , we remember Gene Sarazen 's amazing three-wood at the long 15th , which went into the hole and won the jacket for him . |
| 8 | HE left NME to create the equally successful Smash Hits and then decided to go it alone with £4,000 from his building society account — all of which went into the first edition of The Face . |
| 9 | What kind of strength might they have if they harnessed the determination and cunning which went into the anti-bond protests , the bright and imaginative minds which contribute to fanzines and the patience and good humour shown when visiting supporters are ordered to stand in the rain for half an hour after the final whistle ? |
| 10 | The modernity came in the technological skill which went into the production of the train-sheds , the great single- and double-span roofs , for which unsung engineers solved complex structural problems of weight and distribution with breath-taking brilliance and boldly utilized the new materials , iron and glass , to construct the naves and transepts of the cathedral stations . |
| 11 | The mathematical precision which went into the development of hieroglyphics and the invention of paper resulted in an efficient and scientific method of building which still remains a mystery to modern day man . |
| 12 | Dr Lee has recently pointed out that although the resources which went into the exporting industries could have been channelled elsewhere , the return would almost certainly have been less : " An eighteenth-century economy without resource to trade would have been smaller , less diversified and must have generated less growth even than the modest rate of increase actually achieved . " |
| 13 | In declaring the factory open , paid tribute to the teamwork which went into the design and construction of the plant . |
| 14 | A more fruitful response would be to acknowledge the research which went into the arguments supporting the opinion , and make use of the opportunity to explain more clearly the Church 's position in the matter . |
| 15 | Even if the observation was not consciously made , Leonard recognised the great similarities which were taking place between music and poetry ( and in art and sculpture , too ) , which went under the name of neo-classicism in the former and modernism in the latter . |
| 16 | The auction opened with Daniel Chodowiecki 's watercolour ‘ Frederick II on horseback ’ of 1777 , which went under the hammer at DM78,000 ( £31,200 ; $49,920 ) , more than double its estimate ; it reached its first highpoint with Max Liebermann 's ‘ Garden on the Wannsee ’ of 1916 , for which a north German collector paid DM480,000 ( £192,000 ; $307,200 ) . |
| 17 | The organisers ' policy of making the estimates attractive to potential buyers was again vindicated with Willi Baumeister 's painting ‘ Four Points ’ which realised DM200,000 ( £68,000 ; $124,100 ) , a 1964 untitled watercolour by Ernst Wilhelm Nay which went under the hammer at DM62,000 ( £21.400 ; $38,500 ) and an unusually bright picture of the Tiergarten by Liebermann , secured by a private bidder for the princely sum of DM430,000 ( £148,300 ; $266,900 : estimate DM300,000 ) . |
| 18 | Although there will be little difference between what they cost new , a car registered in January 1992 is going to be more attractive to buyers than one which went on the road in December 1991 , so second-hand it will be worth about £200-£300 more . |
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| 20 | One was a £230,000 ‘ compensation for loss of office ’ , the bulk of which went to the former chief executive , Emmanuel Olympitis , who suddenly departed last month . |
| 21 | Among the 14 awards presented were the Zoeftig Furniture Award of £1,000 which went to the RCA 's Adam Brinkworth and Alison Thomas for their ensemble of stool and armchair . |
| 22 | A well-loved picture dominates the bar , held in almost religious awe : a photograph of the SS Politician , the vessel which ran aground off Eriskay during the Second World War , cargoed with 20,000 cases of whisky ; not all of which went to the bottom when the boat eventually sank . |
| 23 | The licence fee was £71 , all of which went to the BBC . |
| 24 | As a result the Company lost its monopoly ; after 1697 all English merchants could trade with West Africa , though they were supposed to pay a tax of 10 per cent of the value of goods exported from England , the proceeds of which went to the Royal Africa Company to enable it to keep up its forts on the West African coast . |
| 25 | In the first place , he believed that Marx had bequeathed a method of analysing the social process which was scientific , which went to the very roots of reality . |
| 26 | The White Paper preceding the abolition of the GLC ad MCCs stated that on reorganisation the London boroughs and metropolitan district councils would ‘ acquire responsibility , individually or collectively , for the functions currently exercised by the GLC and MCCs , with the exception of London Transport , flood protection in the London area [ which went to the RWA ] and a few minor aspects of other functions ’ ( DOE 1983b:6 ) . |
| 27 | In the next three general elections the largest bonus , which went to the Fine Gael/Labour alliance in November 1982 , amounted to no more than 3.2 percentage points , and no other bonus exceeded 2.0 . |
| 28 | The leading prize was the Grovewood Award which went to the outstanding young driver of the year . |
| 29 | In 1958 and 1959 Uruguay sold 16 per cent of its wool exports to Communist countries , the bulk of which went to the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | Lord Greene M.R. 's distinction between purpose and relevancy both of which went to the scope of the discretionary power , and his substantive sense of unreasonableness , are said to be less clear and useful expressions of the same idea . |