Example sentences of "[prep] which [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used a hot towel and left the product on for ten minutes after which time my hair felt very soft . |
| 2 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 3 | This was the highlight of a generally flat year for Olivetti , during which saw its market share rise to 6.1% from 5.8% . |
| 4 | She spent about seven weeks during which time her mother spent a weekend with us too . |
| 5 | The compensation claim covered a period between 1919 and 1967 when Nauru was under Australian administration , during which time its phosphates were extracted and sold at below market prices . |
| 6 | Between 1973 and 1981 he was general manager at the Golf View Hotel in Nairn , during which time its turnover increased by 800% . |
| 7 | Edward , his half-brother , succeeded , aged about 38 years , and he remained as King for twenty-four years , during which time his endeavours towards sainthood earned him the title of The Confessor . |
| 8 | He then worked for many years as a country doctor , during which time his son Robert nearly died from smallpox inoculation performed by a ‘ surgeon of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 9 | Mozart 's final illness lasted 15 days , during which time his body swelled , he vomited intermittently and he suffered from high fever . |
| 10 | It took about a day and a half for each of them , during which time my nerve-ends were pinging like a Du-gnorian soniharp . |
| 11 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 12 | If you are heavily laden with treasure you might only manage a couple of swings of the sword before you have to rest , during which time your opponent can batter away at you ! ) |
| 13 | Above , students in Taiwan learn to produce their own community newspaper through which to voice their opinions and concerns |
| 14 | Now that each party has formal election procedures through which to choose its Leader , the Queen in normal circumstances will not have to make a personal choice between rival candidates for Prime Minister , a choice which she had to make in 1957 and in 1963 before the Conservative Party adopted election rules . |
| 15 | As a medium through which to secure your fame and fortune , even those publications for whom discovering new talent is an important role are n't the force they were . |
| 16 | Deprived of any effective legal mechanism through which to express their discontent , the peasants expressed it instead through rural disturbances . |
| 17 | Is not the mugger a person who knows only the language of violence through which to express his desperation ? |
| 18 | The social reformers who staffed the think tanks that fed into the right wing of the Conservative Party and who advocated the restructuring of education , the dismantling of the welfare state and the restriction of local government power , needed a theme through which to proselytise their views . |
| 19 | As it happens , Baden has more than commercial prosperity for which to thank its industries . |
| 20 | The idea that England was an ‘ Empire ’ was not new : it was asserted in a letter from Cuthbert Tunstall to Henry VIII in 1517 : ‘ But the Crown of England is an Empire of hitself … : for which cause your Grace werith a close crown . ’ |
| 21 | The final possibility is to " hive up " the trade from Target to Newco , so that Newco commences trading and generates trading income out of which to fund its interest payments directly . |
| 22 | As has been recorded in this chapter , the principal anti-cancer drugs have been discovered either as a by-product of military research financed by government or by research in the pharmaceutical industry , much of which had its roots in research not primarily concerned with cancer . |
| 23 | The pigeons were then split into two groups , one of which had their bills smeared with olive oil and the other with turpentine . |
| 24 | They achieve declared or undeclared goals : involvement , legitimization , recognition , prestige , all of which increase their influence among the others in the client system and those in external systems , thus increasing the chances of further and better outputs in the future . |
| 25 | She was a being apart from the visitors belonging to everybody else , and there were admiring stares and not a few tut-tuts of disapproval from some of the senile-decays for her vivid make-up and briskly clacking high heels , all of which sent my morale sky-rocketing . |
| 26 | The results from Wimpey Asphalt Hong Kong , Springfield Disposal and Overseas Contracting — all of which exceeded their budgets — served to give some respectability to the overall figures of Wimpey Minerals UK . |
| 27 | Emboldened by such success , Christie 's felt able to organise an all-Cartier sale , held in Geneva in 1992 , the results of which justified their confidence . |
| 28 | GRAHAM CHAPMAN and I wrote together almost full time between 1966 and 1973 , writes John Cleese , while producing sketches for The Frost Report , The 1948 Show and Monty Python , as well as several film scripts none of which made their way intact to the silver screen . |
| 29 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 30 | In many cases , they were kept in a container with ageing brown British Palestinian passports , the last used page of which registered their owner 's final departure into exile . |