Example sentences of "process which [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In the 1950s European population was still concentrating into metropolitan cores ( perhaps in part as a process of adjustment to rebuilt cities ) , but by the 1960s a reversal had taken place , with people decentralizing from cores to rings , a process which accelerated in the 1970s .
2 But this was only the beginning of the process which resulted in the C , D and E of today .
3 This enables organizations to continue the same system with salary increases , titles , superior offices and furnishings , cars , expense allowances , stock options , etc. , which are , after all , only more sophisticated examples of the process which began with the child 's first jellybean .
4 It is well known that the movement was part of a complex colonizing process which began in the early 1880s in the East End of London , whereby members of the upper classes lived among the poor , providing them with a variety of educational , recreational , and welfare services .
5 However , the UDC is not a bolt from the blue , rather , it is the logical next step in a process which began in the 1970s with the concept of urban aid and of central intervention in local affairs .
6 Peter also greatly increased the subventions paid out of church revenue towards the needs of the State , a process which culminated in the secularization of church property in the 1760s .
7 His decisions and negotiations with the government shaped the manner in which the British Crown extended its control over both the Company and its Indian possessions , a process which culminated in the passing of the Regulating Act of 1773 .
8 During this period the party abandoned aspects of its Marxist ideology , a process which culminated in the change of the English translation of its name in early 1991 [ see p. 38010 ] .
9 What had to be understood was the process which led to the evolution of society seen in this new light .
10 The process which led to the entrenchment of serfdom in Russia — just when it was being undermined in the West — has been the subject of prolonged historiographical debate .
11 Revisionist work in this area is less advanced than on the events of 1917 itself , but it has begun to unravel the process which led to the rapid breakdown of the broad popular alliance of October , the metamorphosis of the Bolshevik party , and the transformation in the nature of its power .
12 Spectacular rises in corn prices encouraged landlords to evict in order to farm themselves , a process which led to the creation of despoblados ; middling tenants refused to sublet and a wave of rent rises seems to have started in the 1760's .
13 But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours .
14 Morgan 's work offered to Marx and Engels the early history of the processes which led to the creation of capitalism .
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