Example sentences of "[prep] which [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mill was powered then by a steam engine , the coal for which had to be carried from the |
| 2 | In Medieval times all the city 's most important public buildings were here , standing in a closed square linked with the rest of the city and reached only through one of six gates or vaults , each of which corresponded to a gate in the old city wall . |
| 3 | Ambulatory electroencephalographic monitoring over 48 hours showed two similar attacks lasting about 40 seconds , each of which corresponded to episodes of panic . |
| 4 | One was a £230,000 ‘ compensation for loss of office ’ , the bulk of which went to the former chief executive , Emmanuel Olympitis , who suddenly departed last month . |
| 5 | A further 68 members had postal votes , the vast majority of which went to Mr Field , who supports one person , one vote in reselection and has described the involvement of unions as corrupt . |
| 6 | A well-loved picture dominates the bar , held in almost religious awe : a photograph of the SS Politician , the vessel which ran aground off Eriskay during the Second World War , cargoed with 20,000 cases of whisky ; not all of which went to the bottom when the boat eventually sank . |
| 7 | Between 1974 and 1979 , for example , the Department of Industry allocated about £250 million in regional assistance to Merseyside — almost all of which went to green-field locations ( Nabarro , 1980 ) . |
| 8 | The licence fee was £71 , all of which went to the BBC . |
| 9 | As a result the Company lost its monopoly ; after 1697 all English merchants could trade with West Africa , though they were supposed to pay a tax of 10 per cent of the value of goods exported from England , the proceeds of which went to the Royal Africa Company to enable it to keep up its forts on the West African coast . |
| 10 | Nottingham 's own historian , Dr Chambers , reckons that altogether the slum property of the town produced an annual return of forty thousand pounds , some of which went to building-clubs financed by small artisans . |
| 11 | In 1958 and 1959 Uruguay sold 16 per cent of its wool exports to Communist countries , the bulk of which went to the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Ian Johnson presented the ‘ Coin of the Month ’ , ‘ Artefact of the Month ’ and ‘ Detectorist of the Year ’ trophies all of which went to Colin Pearson . |
| 13 | The childless Gerard Van Neck died 17 August 1750 leaving an estate estimated at £240,000 , almost three-fifths of which went to his brother Joshua . |
| 14 | Lord Greene M.R. 's distinction between purpose and relevancy both of which went to the scope of the discretionary power , and his substantive sense of unreasonableness , are said to be less clear and useful expressions of the same idea . |
| 15 | Wilson ( Alliance ) was elected with a surplus at Stage IX after the transfer of Agnew 's ( UPNI ) votes nearly half of which went to him . |
| 16 | In an extensive reshuffle of the Supreme Military Council ( now composed principally of civilians ) on Oct. 14 , 1989 , President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo created three Ministries of State at the Presidency , one of which went to a newcomer to the Council , Alejandro Evuna Asangono . |
| 17 | The figures showed assets of 638,364 million roubles , backed by over 374 tonnes of gold , but the bank was said to be overburdened with credit of 462,060 million roubles to union and republican finance ministries ( only 23,646 million roubles of which went to republican ministries ) . |
| 18 | In the first sentencing in the Milan affair , Mario Chiesa , the ( Socialist ) administrator of a Milan old people 's home , received six years ' imprisonment on Nov. 29 for embezzling L 6,000 million , some of which went to party funds . |
| 19 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 20 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 21 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 22 | Craig Luxton , a New Zealand-born scrum-half on the England periphery , rubbed salt into the self-inflicted wounds with a series of tap-penalties and darting thrusts , one of which led to a 90-metre break-out and a second try for Gavin Thompson — one of the game 's few high points . |
| 23 | The classic instance concerns a Swedish hoard of the eighteenth century from Lohe , the examination of which led to the establishment of the principle ( fig. 28 ) , but much the same can be done for other well-documented periods such as seventeenth-century England . |
| 24 | As with many clubs , there were disagreements , one of which led to one of the members being dismissed . |
| 25 | SWINDON 'S Achilles heel in 1990 — the revelation of which led to the convictions of former chairman Brian Hillier and ex-County Ground accountant Vivien Farrar . |
| 26 | But recurrent harvest failures , the most notorious of which led to devastating famine in 1891 , imposed severe hardship on many . |
| 27 | All of which led to nothing . |
| 28 | Accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying ; Jones showed notebooks of his investigations going back to 1986 and cited a paper written in 1985 ; for their part Fleischmann and Pons insisted that their effort had begun in 1985 , all of which added to the perception that the fusion claims were important and the patents worth fighting for . |
| 29 | What happened that afternoon was the product of countless details , all of which had to be just right . |
| 30 | In the case of Sting he sees no conflict with his Green beliefs and the arrangement of a wedding bash which brought to Wiltshire 250 petrol-guzzling cars , security helicopters , a £20,000 Versace wedding dress flown from Italy , paper invitations , not to mention four dozen portable lavatories , the contents of which had to be emptied … well , it hardly bears thinking about where they were emptied . |