Example sentences of "which went [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Smith 's most influential book , The Golden Stool ( 1926 ) , which went through five impressions in its first year , addressed the issue of ‘ culture contact ’ in Africa .
2 To his non-political contemporaries , however , Sparke was probably best known as the compiler of Crums of Comfort , a collection of prayers for such crises as death , poverty , and war , which went through forty-four editions from its first publication in 1628 to the last in 1755 .
3 Huxtable was an effective propagandist , by the spoken or written word , for his innovative ideas for recycling waste materials and conserving resources , his principle publication being The ‘ Present Prices ' ( 1850 ) , which went through seven editions .
4 But the amount of Aramaic literature which went into international circulation must have been limited in quantity and variety .
5 Figure 5 is the PAS-score trajectory for Lowndes Queensway , the second largest furniture and carpet retailer in the UK , which went into administrative receivership in August 1990 , exactly two years after it was formed from a £450M leverage buy-out .
6 This style in plain colours — light & dark , then into the big rounded ‘ beagle ’ collars which went into all colours — and in checks & in different materials : cotton , cotton/poly , Oxfords , wool mixes , etc .
7 Although shareholders in Hilton Mining afterwards contemplated legal action because the prospectus had not revealed that Allan Hilton , the chairman , had been a director of Hilton ( Products ) which went into voluntary liquidation , their real grievance was against Harvard 's selling techniques .
8 The decision to focus on the fur trade follows the demise last month of the pressure group Lynx , which went into voluntary liquidation after losing a libel case against a mink farmer .
9 For while it was happy for the advisory team to devise policies which went into considerable detail about aspects of classroom practice which are surely for schools and teachers to determine , it remained relatively aloof from one area of school life — home-school links-where policy might usefully and helpfully have stipulated not just goals and commitments but also a range of procedures from which schools could choose .
10 The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage .
11 Mr Abbott arrived to brief Mr Branson on the talks , which went on all day at BA 's offices in St James 's Square , central London .
12 ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours .
13 This represented a reduction of 2.2% ( 95% confidence interval 1.0% to 3.4% ; χ 2 =13.32 , p<0.001 ) in the proportion of total referrals which went to private clinics .
14 She had painkilling injections for the easy semi-final win over compatriot Anke Huber and a smaller dose for Saturday 's final against Mary Joe Fernandez , which went to three sets and lasted a gruelling 2 hours .
15 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 ) .
16 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 ) .
17 It was the pointy headstock revolution which led to the wide usage of scarf jointing , as the thinner necks which went with such guitars were prone to breaking behind the nut , where the headstock pitched back but the wood grain did n't follow it .
18 The Masai furthermore had the looks which went with reckless courage and a consciousness of superior worth .
19 To Shorehead , Huddersfield , from Margaret Shaw who suffered temporary loss of vision during a migraine attack on a shopping trip : ‘ I could not possibly have been offered greater kindness — which went beyond mere service . ’
20 And he had formed an exclusive and close personal relationship , which went beyond mere business , with another powerful man , Nick Horsley .
21 There was usually a passage which went from one wing to the other and crossed the open hall at first floor level .
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