Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Lewis was to go on to become a faithful and devoted Christian , he writes rather as if the ‘ conversion ’ were a fait accompli , after which nothing could be the same . |
| 2 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 3 | It had taken her three full days and now they were to be carried downstairs and arranged in the hall , after which her sister would take them to the post office . |
| 4 | In Miller , in 1954 , the wife had petitioned for divorce , after which her husband attacked and raped her , causing her actual bodily harm . |
| 5 | Bands and their managers tend to have periods of relative quiet , maybe for six months , after which they are in a fever of activity . |
| 6 | They stay in the reception classes for a period of up to three years , after which they are usually dropped into the lowest streams of the schools to which the classes are attached … |
| 7 | After which they would inveigh against them as decadent while ordering more of the same for their next well-attended private screenings . |
| 8 | Political tensions in Côte d'Ivoire briefly lifted cocoa prices above £900 a tonne in May , after which they fell by 30% . |
| 9 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 10 | So the granules are wetted with the solution and left to dry after which they are bottled and labelled with the appropriate nomenclature e.g. LM 1 , LM 2 or LM 0/1 , LM 0/2 etc. the zero signifying the granule , the form in which the final medicine is stored . |
| 11 | The business continued to produce flour up to 1932 , after which they concentrated on flour factoring and the preparation of animal feed . |
| 12 | Unlike chlorine which tends to kill at all concentrations , but takes longer , QACs are bactericidal only when reduced to a certain concentration after which they inhibit cell reproduction without killing . |
| 13 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 14 | They set a time , however , within which the coheir should set to construction , and after which they wished Procula alone to construct , imputing costs to her coheir for his share . |
| 15 | An improved patent band re-sawing machine , with combined vertical and horizontal feed , was used for cutting deals , battens , etc , into boards , after which they were passed through a high speed four-cutter moulding and seaming machine . |
| 16 | Students study three subjects in the first year , after which they may continue with one of these subjects for an honours degree . |
| 17 | The more seasoned tasters , I saw , were rolling the wine round their tongues and their eyes at the ceiling , after which they spat out the wines in the receptacles provided . |
| 18 | Engels believed that the ‘ callous , narrow-minded and conceited ’ Junkers had learned from the French Revolution that the system they maintained was doomed , but in reality the Junkers crushed the rising and insisted on ‘ service ’ until an agricultural review had been conducted in 1865 — after which they abandoned serfdom with great reluctance . |
| 19 | The friar returned a light scowl , after which they paid no more attention to one another . |
| 20 | From Verzy to Trépail , however , the vines face eastwards , after which they take more southerly aspects . |
| 21 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 22 | Insoluble materials are firstly ground with lactose ( a supposedly inert sugar with hard , abrasive crystals ) to the third centesimal dilution , after which they become soluble in the water/alcohol mixture producing a colloidal solution . |
| 23 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 24 | The heavy surge of current at switch-on is minimised if pairs of lamps are switched to operate in ‘ series ’ at reduced power while setting up is being done , after which they are switched back to full power on ‘ parallel ’ for the take . |
| 25 | Watchers were then encouraged to get in touch with her via her publishers , after which they received a personalised mailshot . |
| 26 | ‘ You have to remember , ’ Ellen liked to lecture Thessy and me , ‘ just how absurdly wealthy they all are , and how desperately the wealthy want to be liked because they ca n't help feeling guilty about being so rich , so we only have to be obsequious , give them loads of booze , and pretend to be impressed by their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions , after which they 'll reward us with an outrageously large tip — which is , after all , the sole reason for being nice to the ghastly creatures in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | The warrants , which give holders the right to more shares , have to be converted by November 15 , after which they expire . |
| 28 | The young remain with their mother until a new baby is born , after which they wander further and further away until the parental bond breaks down completely . |
| 29 | The Mondays are on their way to Japan to play a one-off show , after which they will return to the UK to begin writing new material . |
| 30 | In either event , mechanical or electrical , the sound impulses would have to pass through the waterproof casing , after which they must pass through the fuselage of the plane . ’ |