Example sentences of "[prep] which [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we did n't arrive until nearly midnight , it was still an early call next morning for breakfast , after which came the tricky task of packing our saddle-bags . |
| 2 | Next to the Clements were the Slark family , then the Burtons , after which came the entrance to Garden Cottages . |
| 3 | Accreditation is planned for May 1993 after which approved organisations will begin the delivery of MCI . |
| 4 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 5 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 6 | Because this conventionally liberal response to the prevailing mood disguises the fact that the them as which arranged themselves around the flogging solution reflected a much more mature retrenchment , and a much more solid base of opinion and material circumstance than is usefully summarised by the word ‘ panic ’ . |
| 7 | It had a little courtyard off which led three simple , whitewashed rooms . |
| 8 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 9 | Before they reached the towering stack of containers , between which ran innumerable alleyways where no faint light penetrated , they came upon a series of deck hatches . |
| 10 | Later , Adam lazily stared past Miranda to the windows — twin rectangles of blue sky , between which hung an old mirror in an elaborately carved mahogany frame . |
| 11 | A 72-year-old woman had a transient remission of acute undifferentiated leukaemia coinciding with a pneumonia , during which raised concentrations of TNF were found . |
| 12 | The findings suggest that the period during which developed human society has flourished may be a time of unusual stability . |
| 13 | This was the highlight of a generally flat year for Olivetti , during which saw its market share rise to 6.1% from 5.8% . |
| 14 | He spent some time in Holland in the company of an Indian guru with whom he had long walks and conversations through which came the realization that he should build a new career around his two key interests : his satisfaction in working with children and his love of Art . |
| 15 | It was a hell of leaping flames through which darted black figures . |
| 16 | The old part of the town lay half a mile away in a shallow bowl , through which meandered the river that gave the town its name . |
| 17 | The magnetron , as it then existed , was a hollow copper block pumped out to a high vacuum , through which ran a heated wire . |
| 18 | He wore old jeans , espadrilles and a torn blue T-shirt through which spilled a lot of black chest-hair . |
| 19 | These are wrapped around the ball and fastened at the top with a collar through which passed a wire ring for suspension or to pass round the wrist . |
| 20 | Remoteness from the industrial centres of Britain , and the ports through which imported goods enter the country , are reflected in the high cost of living . |
| 21 | More than one in 10 are now on the dole but the green shoots of recovery are showing through which gave a welcome boost to prices . |
| 22 | His ancestral village and its myths were three hundred years in the past , and the clear , blue waters of the bay were a sludge of industrial effluent through which thrashed the occasional blinded seabird . |
| 23 | They represent two of the major Nadis or conduits through which polarized Bioenergy ( Life-force , Kundalini or Serpent Force ) is normally conducted throughout the biophysical system . |
| 24 | Mr McNulty said : ‘ We have it in mind to create between 27 and 40 local committees through which elected members , in consultation with community representatives , would take the critical decisions regarding service delivery covering particular localities . ’ |
| 25 | Rodomonte saw where a large stone had been lifted , presumably by Molassi , to reveal a wide hole through which shone an upward rushing beam of soft yellow light . |
| 26 | Oil consumers , whether directly or indirectly concerned , concentrated their attention on the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf , through which flowed some 20 per cent of the oil supplies of the world outside the CPEs and which shifted into sharp focus as the war intensified . |
| 27 | Sir Nicolas Browne Wilkinson V-C commented that ‘ there manifestly must be some limitation on the purposes for which seized documents can be used . |
| 28 | Create the wordlist for which filtered definitions are required . |
| 29 | To reflect this , the Consultative Paper proposed that such centres could be offered the opportunity to accept devolved responsibility for quality elements normally administered by SCOTVEC , provided that the internal quality systems in place were appropriate to each element for which devolved responsibility was being sought . |
| 30 | The introduction of the ‘ Spaceman ’ programme , which allows retailers to computer-plan the optimum use of available display space , is a good example of the trade support expertise for which United Distillers is rapidly becoming known . |