Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 DETERRED by a quotation of £3,000 for the work , Four Marks Parish Council have decided not to get the mound of earth and builders ' rubble which has accumulated at the village centre levelled .
2 The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate .
3 No more than 15 pairs of the bird are in the country , and the pair which has appeared at the site for the last 15 years is the only one in the south-west .
4 It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup .
5 Samson Agonistes exemplifies a problem which has stood at the centre of current inquiry into the negotiations a text has with an historical context .
6 Party discipline in the Senate is even weaker than in the House ; several powerful senators have a better-than-nodding acquaintance with the petrochemical industry ; and the Senate Finance Committee , which starts looking at the bill on June 7th , has a Democratic majority of only 11 to nine .
7 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 .
8 No doubt their slowness , coupled with the initial inertia of the judges , meant that the exhibition had to remain intact , seriously hampering preparations for the exhibition of models for the Wellington monument which began to arrive at the hall the day after the Government Offices exhibition closed .
9 Under a slab of rock which lay propped at an angle the earth had been scraped away to make a shallow burrow and lying in it , curled up comfortably on his side like a sleeping dormouse was a boy .
10 Richard 's brother Charles told stories about the creatures that lived around the black loch which lay hidden at the mountain 's crest .
11 Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system .
12 Only the 13 legalized opposition groups which had participated at the conference were allowed to put up candidates .
13 It is true that the taste for the Picturesque which had developed at the end of the eighteenth century had led the educated to take a visual pleasure in the exteriors of vernacular buildings ( Jane Austen pokes fun at the taste on more than one occasion ) .
14 Sonia refused the party presidency , not surprisingly ; and the stock markets , which had plunged at the news of Rajiv 's death and risen at the news of her election , plunged again .
15 As we waited for the lights to change I noticed a sleek white sports car which had stopped at the foot of the church steps to take in a passenger .
16 It was the end to a protracted period of trauma and uncertainty for the management and employees of the company , which had begun at the beginning of the year when the rumours that Gardner Merchant was for sale had begun to circulate .
17 Tonight the sun shone through elegant Regency stripes of red and cream instead of through the chintz which had hung at the window for the past month .
18 Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ?
19 On Oct. 28 French naval tugs had towed away boats belonging to the environmental group Greenpeace International , which had docked at the port of Cherbourg to await the imminent arrival of the Akatsuki Maru .
20 On March 27 , 1991 , the Communist Party of Great Britain , which had voted at a congress on Dec. 9 , 1990 , to abandon the principles of Marxism-Leninism and the policy of democratic socialism , published a draft constitution for the party which was to be renamed the Democratic Left .
21 Another strand of the hostage crisis which remained deadlocked at the end of December was the issue of missing Israeli servicemen in Lebanon .
22 The new release , which begins shipping at the end of the week , includes full Windows 3.1 integration , a Windows Sockets application programming interface and NetBIOS support .
23 The new release , which begins shipping at the end of the week , includes full Microsoft Windows 3.1 integration , a Windows Sockets application programming interface ( API ) and Netbios support .
24 In recent years the two guiding principles of non-discrimination and multilateralism which have lain at the heart of the GATT system have been gradually eroded .
25 Details of companies which have looked at the centre are still a closely guarded secret , but BPT believes many of the centre 's shops will be let , if not trading , by the time the centre opens .
26 All of the studies which have looked at the effect of maturity on mispricings ( Bhatt and Cakici , 1990 ; Klemkosky and Lee , 1991 ; MacKinlay and Ramaswamy , 1988 ; Twite , 1991a ; Strickland and Xu , 1992 ; Yadav and Pope , 1990 ; 1992b ) have found that mispricings tend to decline in size and frequency as delivery approaches .
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