Example sentences of "which [adv] took [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them . |
| 2 | It was UNIP which eventually took control of the first independent government winning , in January 1964 , fifty-five seats to the ANC 's ten . |
| 3 | And sure enough they do panic and run amok , and ‘ the almost mystical terror which suddenly took hold of our authorities ’ completes the ruinous and negative side of the Gadarene story . |
| 4 | Virtually nothing is known of Freeman 's early years ; he shrouded his early life in great mystery and even the details of his secondary schooling — which apparently took place at a boarding-school in north London — remained unknown to his closest relatives . |
| 5 | This was partly due to the fact that I did n't really understand what I was supposed to be doing and partly because I had a very intricate felt-pen and biro decoration to complete on my pencil case ( which obviously took priority over maths work ) . |
| 6 | There was a glitter of hostility in the girl 's velvet-dark eyes which momentarily took Caroline 's breath away … |
| 7 | A journey which once took weeks by camel lasted half a day in a fast motor such as a Range-Rover , rarely more than four days in the most heavily laden truck . |
| 8 | Using the jet nozzle head , unsightly black marks in tile grouting just dissolved away , and the oily deposits on the back wheel of a motorbike , which usually took hours to shift , disappeared in no time . |
| 9 | Nothing was found relating to the Jewish Exodus roughly 5000 years ago , which probably took place further south . |
| 10 | The meeting with Picasso , which probably took place around the time this picture was being painted or soon after , must have encouraged him in turning his back completely on Fauvism . |
| 11 | It is now clear that Tolstoy 's version of events rested on a fundamental confusion between what happened at Bleiburg and events which later took place elsewhere . |
| 12 | The influence of its music was greatly enhanced by the technological advances which then took place : first in gramophones ; then in public broadcasting systems . |
| 13 | Of the nine republics which officially took part in the referendum , five ( Azerbaijan , Byelorussia , Kirghizia , Tadjikistan and Turkmenia ) asked only the question as set by the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 14 | The European Boxing Union have ruled that Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Mendy can keep his European lightweight title following a row over a dope test which never took place . |
| 15 | Domestically the Labour Party was improving its organization and developing its programme after 1934 , with its focus on the general election of 1940 which never took place . |
| 16 | But in fact these early chapters of Genesis are historical , in that they bear witness to events which actually took place . |
| 17 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 18 | The Portuguese officials said they would hear the appeal on 18 October and confirmed the appeal only involved the fine and not the ban , which actually took effect at the Spanish Grand Prix last Sunday . |
| 19 | If , when you attended the major retrospective of your works which recently took place at the Tate Gallery , someone had asked you : Marcel Duchamp , what have you done with your life ? |
| 20 | They anticipated a number of significant developments which subsequently took place , like the setting up of a local authority for the Western Isles which has had a stimulating effect on the whole life of the area . |
| 21 | Summary : The conference was funded by ESRC to discuss the results of the primary analysis of WIRS2 , some initial results of secondary analysis ( some of which was ESRC funded , but under separate grants ) , generally appraise WIRS2 as a resource for the academic community and , finally , discuss the possibility of a WIRS3 which subsequently took place in early 1990 , with a substantial contribution of funding from ESRC . |