Example sentences of "which [vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |
| 2 | He loosened two buttons on the shoulders of her fine cotton-shift dress , which fluttered to the floor . |
| 3 | By English law , it was the father 's nationality which passed to the child and Michael Joyce had renounced his British citizenship long before . |
| 4 | Jay lived best when inspired ; for her love had always been the inspiration ; she lived and wrote from passion , passion which led to the abyss . |
| 5 | By the time she found it , booked a ride for the next day and searched — without success — for tennis courts , and pushed the bike up the steep hill which led to the cottage , it was mid-afternoon . |
| 6 | Exactly how long Hughes lived at 94 Portland Street , London , is uncertain but the first experiments which led to the development of the microphone were conducted here during 1878–80 . |
| 7 | There is a paternalistic assumption lurking here , which reminds me of that which led to the disastrous council housing estates of the Sixties and early Seventies . |
| 8 | A gas leak on an unmanned North Sea platform which led to the evacuation of 70 workers from a nearby drilling rig was successfully sealed . |
| 9 | THE NUNS in Northamptonshire who are battling to save their 5,000 chickens from slaughter said yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture had changed its story over the type of salmonella responsible for the outbreak of food poisoning which led to the flock being tested . |
| 10 | Details are emerging of the final stages of the talks which led to the collapse of the bid on Tuesday night . |
| 11 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 12 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 13 | Morgan 's work offered to Marx and Engels the early history of the processes which led to the creation of capitalism . |
| 14 | What had to be understood was the process which led to the evolution of society seen in this new light . |
| 15 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 16 | MPs today begin investigating the events which led to the Government dropping its golden share in Jaguar and the subsequent deal to sell the company to Ford . |
| 17 | The consequence of the reduction had been to put resignalling work around Waterloo — which led to the Clapham disaster — two months behind schedule . |
| 18 | The University appears , then , to have great admiration for the fact that , among other things , Caspar Weinberger : a ) supported the Contra rebels in a war which led to the deaths of some 30,000 Nicaraguans and which was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice . |
| 19 | But the parental attacks which led to the baby 's death were unpredictably ferocious and sudden . |
| 20 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which led to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 21 | It was Mr Nofomela 's confession to the killing — the day before he was due to be executed for the murder of a white farmer — which led to the disclosures that the force has been running professional death squads . |
| 22 | At least four of the 55 members of the squad suspended pending the investigation , took part in the inquiry which led to the conviction of the Birmingham Six . |
| 23 | Has the time not come to investigate the factors which led to the move west from the 13 colonies in North America , to consider how these might be created to apply to a move east from the Urals to provide a similar development in potentially the greatest storehouse of raw materials and energy ? |
| 24 | It seems to have begun somewhat unexpectedly , when he was involved in a discussion which led to the question ‘ What is sense ? ’ |
| 25 | Gently nosing the car down the hill into the village , he turned off the road into the gravelled drive which led to the eighteenth-century stone barn . |
| 26 | He opened the door which led to the secretary 's annex . |
| 27 | Indeed , it was the initial attempt to date these which led to the discovery of anomalous fading . |
| 28 | But they forgot about him as soon as he disappeared out of sight down the steps which led to the promenade and beach . |
| 29 | As a consequence of this research historians know very well the variety of factors which led to the dispute — many of them already outlined in the earlier sections of this chapter . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |