Example sentences of "which brought [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the mandarins , at Permanent Secretary level , Sir John Maud ( who succeeded Fergusson in 1952 ) was to outlast Citrine , and his smoothing magisterial presence was an important influence in questions such as board appointments ( reserved for the Minister 's private office ) and fuel industry coordination ( which brought together the various Ministry divisions ‘ sponsoring ’ each energy industry ) . |
| 2 | There was something about the woman which brought out the official streak in Wycliffe and with it the pompous , well-rounded phrases : ‘ I 'm afraid that we shall have to look into your brother 's affairs and into his relationships both inside and outside the family . |
| 3 | Mm , mm , I heard an interesting programme on Radio Shropshire which talked about the tailed bat , which brought out the historical importance of the building , and I learnt one or two things that I did n't know , apparently one of the very early carvings , who plays Sidney I think , and yet , yet it was n't er , destroyed until the next revolution took place . |
| 4 | The financial crisis which brought down the Labour government caused a rapid increase in the cost of unemployment assistance , an increase which pre-Keynesian economic theory held to be highly undesirable . |
| 5 | All of which brought home the final lesson I had to go back to school to learn . |
| 6 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 7 | That threat of invasion was , however , removed , in 1805 , by the great naval victory at Trafalgar , in which Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the cost of his own life , This was followed by General Arthur Wellesley — who later became the Duke of Wellington — leading British troops into the Spanish Peninsula against Napoleon , who then began to experience considerable defeats , not the least of which was his retreat from Moscow in the winter of 1812 , and the following year saw the Duke of Wellington taking the war into France culminating in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 , which brought about the final defeat of Napoleon . |
| 8 | How did the implementers of the monetarist nonsense which brought about the first recession manage to produce a second recession ? |
| 9 | If they were satisfied that it was truly a consequence of dishonesty which brought about the further charge and there was , in substance , no difference between that and the first charge , plainly there had been an abuse of process . |