Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its power continued till the fifteenth century , after which it declined in face of competition from new trade routes opening up . |
| 2 | He joined the Royal Air Force during the war , after which he settled in London . |
| 3 | Then came the meeting with the woman whom he was to marry , a meeting about which he writes in the same book . |
| 4 | While they were accustomed to being absolute rulers in Hanover they realized that being King of England was more important than being Elector of Hanover and they spent most of their time in England , but they never felt entirely at ease in the forty-six years during which they ruled in London . |
| 5 | In other words , John Finnegan advised on the value of the property for the period of 17 months during which it increased in value from £4.4m to £9.4m — or by £10,000 per day ! |
| 6 | After World War N , during which he served in the army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers , he was attached to the War Office . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly one of the most important milestones in the Nicol career was his selection for the Scottish tour to North American in May 1991 , during which he played in three of the six games and scored a try in each one : ‘ That really was the start of things . |
| 8 | A report by a commission of church historians published on Jan. 6 claimed that high-level French Roman Catholic clergy had helped protect the suspected war criminal Paul Touvier for almost 45 years during which he succeeded in winning a brief pardon in 1971 . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister , Marian Calfa , paid an official visit to South Africa on May 4-6 , during which he stressed in particular the advantage to both countries of closer economic co-operation . |
| 10 | His service record before World War I , a period during which he specialized in torpedo work , repeatedly commended him as a ‘ most zealous officer ’ with ‘ excellent tact and judgment ’ . |
| 11 | The senses provide the means through which they drink in experience and personalise it . |
| 12 | During 1907 Le Queux travelled throughout West Africa , the Balkans , and Turkey , and acquired an intimate knowledge of the activities of the secret services in the countries through which he passed in Europe . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman referred to the Kincardine and Deeside by-election , in the campaign for which he said in his special health service circular : ’ Opting out is a dangerous first step towards market economics and privatisation of our health service . ’ |
| 14 | It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young . |
| 15 | The pro-choice forces in the republic advised voters to vote ‘ yes ’ to travel abroad for abortion , ‘ yes ’ to receive information about abortion services ( both of which they did in large majorities ) , and ‘ no ’ on the ‘ substantive ’ issue because the preceding judgment in the Supreme Court was in fact more liberal : it permits abortion in Ireland if the woman threatens suicide . |
| 16 | Conversely , reputable composers became more interested in popular music , the tunes of which they preserved in keyboard or lute arrangements and as themes for instrumental variation or even for Masses . |
| 17 | Pindown was a serious professional failure , but was a hundred miles removed from the level of criminal activity of which we heard in the recent trial . |
| 18 | More significantly , as is already clear from our discussion so far , functional psychosis also contains within itself a potential for the very opposite of deficit , the occasional capacity for superlative functioning and high achievement ; this is the paradox of which we wrote in the previous chapter . |
| 19 | Satraps led contingents from their satrapies in the great battles against Greeks or Macedonians of which we hear in Herodotus or the Alexander-historians ; they also levied troops for less grand operations . |
| 20 | While the soft-voiced viol consort was peculiarly suitable for domestic music , there was a standard mixed consort for public occasions , of which we hear in an account ( 1591 ) of an entertainment for Elizabeth I at Elvetham in Hampshire : an ‘ exquisite consort , wherein was the lute , bandora , base-viol , citterne , treble-violl , and flute ’ . |
| 21 | In England and Wales the position is now governed by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , section 78 , the terms of which we encountered in the previous chapter . |
| 22 | Thus in some sense everything is mentally internalised , retained and inwardly possessed ; that is our only defence against complete discontinuity in living , a distressing example of which we see in the man who loses his memory , and is consciously uprooted ’ |
| 23 | All of which we have in this brochure defined for us . |
| 24 | This seems to have been , at least in part , the motive behind a walking-tour which Pound took in 1911 , of which we learn in chapter 16 of his Guide to Kulchur , written twenty years later : |
| 25 | The result was the verse known as ‘ Mythopoeia ’ , some of which he quoted in his essay . |
| 26 | Forbes 's 1989 list of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States estimates Mr Kluge 's net worth at $5.2bn ( £3.3bn ) , much of which he realised in a sale of six television stations to a fellow media mogul , Rupert Murdoch . |
| 27 | ( Berkeley was familiar with perspective machines , one of which he described in a later work . ) |
| 28 | He asks : " what se hym ne here hym ? " [ : hinders ] ( ibid ) The new " gamen " and " trauaile " of which he spoke in chapter forty is to find out . |
| 29 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 30 | Indigestion could be quelled with a simple magnesia tablet , thousands of which she chewed in her lifetime . |