Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 2 | The fundamental difference between the traditional City and Guilds awards and the new NVQ award is that the former were awarded by City and Guilds to students who had attended an approved course of study in a college which led to the student successfully passing the relevant City and Guilds examination . |
| 3 | Crawford Beveridge , SE 's chief executive , said the foundations for business had been laid by trade missions organised since the attempted coup in 1991 which led to the break up of the former Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Six months later a Treaty was signed in London which led to the setting up of a 26-county Free State . |
| 5 | There were attempts at legislation on computers and privacy through Private Members Bills from 1961 onwards , which the Home Office , as the lead department on the subject , managed to stall successfully until 1970 , when it was one of the issues which led to the setting up of the Younger Committee . |
| 6 | Partly in an attempt to neutralise the Schonfeld lobby , the RC M made a direct appeal to all Jewish organisations to support religious education , an appeal which led to the setting up of an Emergency Committee , on which the full range of religious interests was represented , and the appointment of Rabbi Dr van der Zyl to be responsible for the religious education of Jewish children in London . |
| 7 | The flurry of critical publications by ex-detenus after the Emergency helped to attract some extra finance towards prisons , as well as fuelling the pressure which led to the setting up of Justice Mulla 's committee . |
| 8 | Hence Lawson also chaired an ad hoc group of Ministers which led to the setting up of the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 9 | The origins of this reform of the services for deprived children seem to have been in a child care scandal , the O'Neill case , which led to the setting up of the Curtis Committee to investigate contemporary practice . |
| 10 | Even as Davies Gilbert spoke , discussions were beginning which led to the setting up in 1808 of the British and Foreign School Society . |
| 11 | ( It was the publicity given to a case in Egham which led to the setting up of the Arton Wilson Committee . ) |
| 12 | Race starter Captain Keith Brown was also criticised for allowing the horses to line up too close to the start line which led to the tape twice being broken . |
| 13 | Race starter Captain Keith Brown was also criticised for allowing the horses to line up too close to the start line , which led to the tape twice being broken . |
| 14 | This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries . |
| 15 | This wider context of the developments at university and LEA levels is necessary for an adequate understanding of the difficulties which arose in the years immediately prior to the 1939–45 war between the Cambridge Board and the District as there were serious implications for the National WEA if the District 's problems had not been resolved through protracted , patient and complex negotiations . |
| 16 | An attempt to reconcile the cases was made in Taylor Woodrow Property Co Ltd v Lonrho Textiles Ltd ( 1985 ) 275 EG 632 , where it was held that a " two-way " deeming provision ( ie which applied to both landlord and tenant ) made time of the essence , but a " one-way " deeming provision ( ie which applied to the tenant alone ) did not . |
| 17 | The progeny of mixed marriages contributed to a ‘ metisization ’ of the Russian population , the greater part of which occurred in the regions most remote from Europe . |
| 18 | There was nothing imaginary about the shooting which erupted in the street outside . |
| 19 | All I can tell you is that Winsor blue is one of the trade names for an intense blue pigment , copper phthalocyanine , which came into the palette sometime in the thirties . |
| 20 | It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today . |
| 21 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |
| 22 | May I on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends point out that the disgraceful barracking and shouting which came from the mob opposite during the reply was clearly an exercise orchestrated by the Labour Whips ? |
| 23 | Yet yesterday 's report on the Clapham crash , confirming the picture which emerged throughout the Hidden inquiry , makes an event which seemed at the time totally unexpected look almost inevitable . |
| 24 | He had avoided it hitherto because of the stink , which wafted on the air even when there was no noticeable breeze . |
| 25 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 26 | Then a little further out blazes a great American packet ( the Roraima ) , which arrived on the scene just in time to be overwhelmed by the catastrophe . |
| 27 | My introduction to the Advanced Courses Development Programme was in the form of SCOTVEC 's Consultative Paper which arrived at the College early in 1987 . |
| 28 | It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back . |
| 29 | We shall travel the world together as poor beggarly men carrying our message to the planet , and everywhere we shall be spurned and everywhere we shall be glorified , and a light shall shine about him like to the light which shone upon the day when he raised me from the dead . |
| 30 | The ruling Military Committee of National Salvation ( CMSN ) on July 25 adopted a law which allowed for the setting up of political parties , with the exception of specifically Islamic parties or parties based on race or region . |