Example sentences of "which [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
| 2 | The accounting convention which divided spending into revenue ( current ) and capital expenditure was particularly susceptible to manipulation . |
| 3 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 4 | On the fourth side was the meeting chamber or auditorium which provided seating for over 1200 persons . |
| 5 | There is nothing God-given about any particular system of measurement ; intelligent life on another planet might easily have evolved a method of assessing people 's incomes which involved multiplying by a fixed amount for each increment . |
| 6 | The police imposed a change of route which involved marching to Craigavon Bridge via Duke Street , instead of Distillery Brae and Spencer Road , and to the Diamond via John Street and Foyle Street instead of Carlisle Road . |
| 7 | The House of Lords held that the surveyor was discharging the duties of both expert and quasi-arbitrator , and was not in the position of an independent arbitrator who had no other duty which involved acting in the interests of one of the parties , and that accordingly in so acting he was not guilty of collusion or bad faith . |
| 8 | After some detailed survey work members of the Glasgow South branch ; Bill McMath and George Houston ( also assisted by QAI Jonathan Simmons ) including a night visit in the pouring rain which involved peering at cracks in the outer wall with a torch , a detailed proposal was submitted to the Council . |
| 9 | Decision-making tended to be a complex process which involved bargaining between a plurality of different actors , and even in each of the specific policy areas the resulting decisions could not simply be seen as the result of the preferences of one elite group or actor . |
| 10 | Thus , children in our classroom practice sample spent a high proportion of their time working when they were engaged in tasks which involved talking to the class , talking to the teacher , construction , listening or collaboration . |
| 11 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 12 | . But on a Saturday I had another paper round , from the same people , which involved travelling from to the Sanatorium on Road which is probably two and a half mile , with a cycle , advertising Smiths with the carriers on . |
| 13 | Which involved going to evening classes and er then back to work and this involved nights regular , so it was a bit a bit of a dash , sleeping , evening class and then catching a bus which the first one , nine o'clock and to the colliery and starting . |
| 14 | However , the cost of the palace was almost negligible compared with the funds ‘ invested ’ in arbitrary economic projects and the rebuilding of all the major cities in Romania , and with what Ceauşescu intended to spend on ‘ rural systematization ’ ( which involved halving of the number of villages in Romania and constructing 558 ‘ agro-industrial ’ complexes ) . |
| 15 | A revised merger proposal between UB and Imperial , which involved disposing of Imperial 's Golden Wonder subsidiary , thus reducing market share in the snack foods market , was not referred to MMC and hence both bids were allowed to proceed . |
| 16 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 17 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 18 | Sheila Danby spent most of her working life in education , latterly in adult literacy as part of Operation Upgrade which involved working in Soweto . |
| 19 | Any medical personnel found to have the virus were immediately banned from performing surgery which involved working inside the body , said the spokesman . |
| 20 | The behind-the-scenes manoeuvring came as the Bond corporate empire met renewed difficulties with the Australian Stock Exchange , which suspended trading in Bond Corp . |
| 21 | Last September he bought a camcorder which stopped working within six months . |
| 22 | in this case the medical evidence concluded that death was from crushing of the chest which prevented breathing with death resulting within 5 minutes . |
| 23 | It set in motion what we call a debris flow , a mixture of 50-ton boulders , rocks , sand and gravel bound together in a kind of slurry , which came rolling down the side canyon and dammed the river . |
| 24 | The story of its ill-fated Paris premiere in 1913 , which provoked fighting in the audience , is well known . |
| 25 | The political refugee issue , which dominated campaigning in the nation 's richest state and which the Republicans handled with overt racism , brought a 20-year majority reign by the Christian Democrats to an end . |
| 26 | Divorces rose steadily , though the real acceleration in the divorce rate was to come after the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act of 1 984 which allowed petitioning for divorce after only one year of marriage . |
| 27 | In the latter half of the nineteenth century there was considerable controversy as to what it was about a sensation , which differed according to the part of the body stimulated . |
| 28 | Touch and Go ( Published by the Author , 128pp , illus , sbk ) by R G Fletcher is the story of one particular Telegraphist/Air Gunner ( TAG ) course , No 35 , which began training in late 1941 and qualified a year later . |
| 29 | Sales of co-ordinate measuring machines and laser calibration products increased , and demand for the group 's new products , the Cyclone scanning machine and the Raman microscope , which began shipping at the end of June , were promising . |
| 30 | The new printers join the HP 5000 model F100 , which began shipping in 1992 . |