Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had pretty fair hair which escaped from its disciplined coiffure in tendrils around her long face . |
| 32 | He was immediately shot dead by a rabbit , which rushed from its burrow and bumped against the trigger ( Sunday Mail , Scotland , 14 April 1991 ) . |
| 33 | Finally , we come to the new county of Mid-Glamorgan , which inherited as its institution of higher education the Glamorgan Polytechnic , at Treforest , Pontypridd . |
| 34 | But in 1908 Edison set up the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ) , which included among its aims an increase in the share of the US market taken by domestic productions . |
| 35 | At the second attempt he presented voters with a painstakingly worked out proposal which included among its measures the recognition of Quebec as a distinct society , the right of natives to govern themselves and reform of the senate . |
| 36 | Apart from selling books , the locale also provided a meeting place for such gatherings as ‘ Better Books writers nights ’ , and in February/March 1965 housed ‘ the sTigma environmental exhibition ’ , which included amongst its contributors Jeff Nuttall , and amongst its inspirations Alex Trocchi 's Sigma , a Tactical Blueprint-drawing for its inspiration on the International Situationists . |
| 37 | Among Chrétien 's works was a romance , Lancelot , written at Marie 's request , which took as its hero a man who had an illicit affair with the wife of his lord , King Arthur . |
| 38 | The standing of Keynesianism seemed to ebb by visible degrees with the publication of each successive article which took as its starting-point the assumption of full employment . |
| 39 | Nevertheless , the house of Foix-Béarn emerged as the neighbouring territorial power with the greatest measure of control over Bigorre and the important Pyrenean passes which lay within its boundaries . |
| 40 | As Henry 's army advanced towards Mantes it burned and looted everything which lay in its path . |
| 41 | Cameron found Donald Stewart and set off beside him towards Weem , which lay among its woodlands in a light blue haze of evening smoke . |
| 42 | The well was moved because of this road , which went through its original position , although it was not put into its present position until 1921 . |
| 43 | In Manchester , the Clyne House nursery school , then occupied by the military authorities , was also severely damaged , and the main school building was hit by a bomb which went through its roof but which fortunately failed to explode . |
| 44 | Following Fidel Castro 's seizure of power , Kennedy failed to keep a gung-ho CIA in check , which proceeded with its ill-conceived invasion plans of Cuba . |
| 45 | I have not only politically united the German people , but also militarily rearmed them , and I have further attempted to tear up page for page that Treaty , which contained in its 448 articles the most base violations ever accorded to nations and human beings . |
| 46 | It was a lukewarm liquid on which floated a thin layer of fat and which contained in its suspicious-looking depths lumps of boiling beef , pieces of cauliflower and other assorted vegetables . |
| 47 | The cloud had dispersed and it was a fine evening when we entered Tobermory which looked at its picture-postcard best . |
| 48 | Burun thought that the precaution was probably unnecessary , but he approved the sentiment which resulted in its instigation . |
| 49 | A poor result was obtained from one private jacuzzi which resulted in its closure pending further investigations . |
| 50 | Mercury is a small planet , which combined with its small angular separation from the Sun makes it a difficult planet to observe . |
| 51 | Conservation of energy gave a good reason for putting all those sciences which dealt with energy in one form or another , and even those perhaps which dealt with its interconversions , under one umbrella . |
| 52 | Earlier , Lord Justice Taylor unveiled a plaque to mark the official opening of the building , which dealt with its first cases last May . |
| 53 | The recent decline in the fortunes of the UK Green Party was epitomized in the eyes of many observers by the deep divisions which emerged at its annual conference , held in Wolverhampton in mid-September , where organizational reforms approved last year were overturned . |
| 54 | Amiss recalled a discreet chamber tucked away at the back of the building which appeared from its decor and its furniture to have been designed for the entertainment of a compliant lady . |
| 55 | We cut our way through these and , following our python-hunters , who now seemed considerably less enthusiastic about the venture than they had been when they first suggested it , we slid down coconut ropes to the sinkhole floor and to the forbidding cobwebbed entrances which extended from its walls . |
| 56 | So it was that the Cohens ' life was very largely circumscribed by the Montreal riding , which had as its most prestigious centre Westmount , where they lived . |
| 57 | GEMA organized and led the ‘ Change the Constitution ’ movement which had as its objective the prevention of the vice-president taking power in an interim period before an election , and which came to dominate party politics in the mid 1970s . |
| 58 | Further afield , the Lofoten Project in Northern Norway was an innovation action research programme in seven comprehensive schools which had as its basic assumption the notion that rural communities can be strengthened by means of an educational system which reflects the local and regional situation socially , culturally and economically . |
| 59 | They followed a pattern which was virtually invariable , for Haussmann decided what the optimum height should be in relation to street width and perspective , a feature which was most noticeable in the avenue Napoleon III ( now avenue de l'Opéra ) , which had as its focal point Garnier 's great Opera House , the epitome of Second Empire architectural style . |
| 60 | ‘ The notion of ‘ business ’ , ’ it said , ‘ implied repeated activity , and a degree of organisation which had as its aim the realisation of profit ’ . |