Example sentences of "[det] which [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 2 | ‘ The king having said this , ill present , both great and small , gave their assent , and renouncing the more imperfect institution resolved to conform to that which they found to be better . ’ |
| 3 | I think I should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and |
| 4 | Since 1945 , Britain 's record has been consistently better than that which she achieved in the interwar years — an average of 20 per cent of GDP as compared with 11 per cent [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 5 | Much of Greenfield 's paper derives from the theoretical foundations laid by Bernstein and she is surprised how closely the ‘ verbal deprivation ’ he identifies in working-class English youths corresponds to that which she found amongst the Wolof . |
| 6 | Even so , the significance it has for Hobbes is nothing like that which it had for Bacon . |
| 7 | In the Western democracies of the late twentieth century the state has taken on an entirely different character from that which it had in the period of laissez-faire capitalism , or in earlier periods , when its functions were mainly confined to tax collecting , internal repression , and external conflict with other states ; now it is responsible in addition for the operation of a great range of public services as well as a general regulation of the whole economic system . |
| 8 | Russia at this time had potential labour force over double that which it had in the mid 19th Century . |
| 9 | However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art . |
| 10 | The outcome , according to Levi-Strauss , is a generalized circularity analogous to that which I described for the relationship in our commercial system between an author and his book-buying reader . |
| 11 | A typical letter was that which he wrote on 8 July 1940 : |
| 12 | Brave and good in the air , Dave consistently proved his ability to find the net at all levels , but perhaps the goal for which he will be best remembered by Palace fans of the period was that which he scored at Elland Road , Leeds , in January 1976 when 3rd Division Palace dismissed the mighty Yorkshire outfit on our way to our first FA Cup semi-final . |
| 13 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 14 | It is ironic to reflect that had he served the Luftwaffe in a similar role to that which he graced in the Royal Air Force , there can be little doubt that he would have been invested with the highest order of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross — with Diamonds , Swords and Oakleaves . |
| 15 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 16 | The cast on , or hip measurement , must of course , be the same figure as that which you used for the top of your skirt program . |
| 17 | However , as Thomas Fuller noted , ‘ He never troubled parish , College or Diocese with pressing other ceremonies upon them than such which he found before his coming thither … content with the enjoying without the injoining on others . ’ |
| 18 | Additionally , they were given the opportunity to experience other ways of learning mathematics than those which they knew about from their own schooldays . |
| 19 | The results of Jarvella 's ( 1971 ) experiment , and those which we described in sections 7.2.1 and 7.2.2 have led several authors to propose a clausal hypothesis in order to explain sentence and discourse comprehension . |
| 20 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 21 | Marx referred throughout his work to other systems than the capitalist system , especially those which he knew from the history of Europe to have preceded capitalism ; systems such as feudalism , where the relation of production was characterized by the personal relation of the feudal lord and his serf and a relation of subordination which came from the lord 's control of the land . |
| 22 | His best-known excavations were those which he described in Excavations in New Forest Roman Pottery Sites ( 1927 ) . |
| 23 | Included in episcopal temporalities were not only the advowsons which he possessed in his own right by virtue of the endowments of his bishopric but also those which it fell to him to exercise by default of the usual patron and the appointments to the cathedral chapter , two categories of patronage which he exercised by virtue of his spiritual authority over the diocese , not because of any land which he held . |
| 24 | That led the court to hold in that judgment that , as a result of article 234 , a member state might have to apply , in its relations with the other member states , rules different from those which it applied in its relations with non-member countries , even though they were all party to the same international convention . |
| 25 | Leon Kennedy was next to her now , one fist gripping the back of her chair , about to pull it from under her , his other hand clenched on the table near her own which she snatched to her lap . |
| 26 | But a very small Reform , or none at all , would — or , at least , might — have involved the aristocrats in far larger losses and concessions than any which they incurred through the Reform Act . |