Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came from Ethiopia , and his skin was the colour of glistening wet coal except for the palms of his hands , which were sandy pale , and the whites of his eyes , which twinkled like sunshine on fresh clean snow . |
| 2 | Most had already lit their fore-and-aft lamps , which twinkled like glow-worms in the gathering dusk . |
| 3 | They knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to Jarveys in high pitched provincial voices , which pierced through their skin-tight accents . |
| 4 | ( which overlapped into Stoke Goldington and Weston Underwood ) , were freeholders , a numerous class in this district , the remainder lessees for term of years or at will . |
| 5 | There were heads hanging from branches in these places , which gleamed as if oiled . |
| 6 | It was as though a white cloak had been thrown over the entire countryside , a cloak which gleamed beneath an enormous ghostly-white moon , robbing the night of its darkness . |
| 7 | Thin drizzle dampened the pavement , which gleamed in reflection of the oil-lamps within . |
| 8 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 9 | Majority opinion in the ILP was best expressed in the resolution moved on behalf of the Rugby Branch , which argued for continued affiliation on the basis of a satisfactory revision of Parliamentary Standing Orders . |
| 10 | By the application of good marine logic — tasting the water and finding it salty , then making sure the ebb — and flood-tides were of equal strength ( both tests which argued against this body of water being a river ) they realized that they had , indeed , discovered the way through . |
| 11 | Black people are now moving back to the People 's National Movement , which ruled for 30 years before Mr Robinson came to power . |
| 12 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 13 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 14 | But workers rejected that offer and the matter was referred to the national executive of the Amalgamated Engineering , Electrical Union , which ruled in favour of the action . |
| 15 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 16 | The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving . |
| 17 | All three National governments , which operated under the premiership of J. Ramsay MacDonald ( 1931–5 ) , Stanley Baldwin ( 1935–37 ) and Neville Chamberlain ( 1937–40 ) , displayed increasing respect for the trade unions in the 1930s . |
| 18 | Despite grand plans for the ‘ informationisation of society ’ , the partnership of government and industry which operated under the government of Valery Giscard d'Estaing left the French information-technology industry in a mess — at least compared with American or Japanese firms . |
| 19 | In 1983 , for example , there were ‘ radical ’ authorities of the ‘ Left ’ ( such as the GLC ) , as well as of the ‘ Right ’ ( such as Wandsworth ) , which operated with particular local distinctiveness . |
| 20 | THIS year sees the 50th anniversary of the launch of HMS Khedive , an assault fighter aircraft carrier which operated with distinction in the South of France landings and in the Aegean Sea , and later against the Japanese . |
| 21 | It was certainly something which operated on two unusually distinct levels . |
| 22 | Intercity buses in the United States carry 375 million passengers a year across more than a billion miles — quite a legacy from the first US bus service which operated on Long Island in 1899 . |
| 23 | Named after the famous battleships and secured by a £12 patent , the twenty Dreadnoughts which operated on Blackpool Promenade from the turn of the Century until 1934 , were certainly unique . |
| 24 | Sitcoms like Love Thy Neighbour , Till Death Us Do Part and Mind Your Language were stuffed to bursting with gags which operated on the principle that differences of colour or culture were an endless source of easy laughs . |
| 25 | So , Fearnley was under continuous threat from the two or three agencies which operated on an international basis , and especially from the most powerful , Mike Martinez . |
| 26 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
| 27 | The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone . |
| 28 | ( i ) Liability for negligence.In Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland [ 1987 ] 2 All ER 620 the Court of Appeal upheld a finding that a clause in a plant hire contract requiring the hirer of an excavator to indemnify the owner against liability for loss caused by the driver 's negligence , which operated as an exclusion , was unreasonable . |
| 29 | In the same way a late Roman coin might have the mint mark LON standing for Londinium , the short-lived Roman mint at London which operated between AD286 and 326 . |
| 30 | Lead was mined at several sites in Scotland 's Lowther Hills , and there are interesting remains of the industry here , which operated for about six centuries . |