Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to work alongside deputy heads and postholders who also had managerial responsibilities , some of which overlapped considerably with their own . |
| 2 | It was this reputation that attracted Stanley Pons to Southampton in 1975 , and it was Pons ' passion for skiing and his interest in cooking which overlapped so well with Fleischmann 's and brought the two men close . |
| 3 | During the first two decades of its existence it was one of many organisations which argued insistently for the creation of National Parks . |
| 4 | The aristocracies which ruled so much of Europe could still see themselves even in 1914 as in some sense parts of a social order which transcended national boundaries . |
| 5 | Where redemption did go into effect immediately , the peasantry soon found their allotments inadequate , and their land hunger was exacerbated by a massive population increase which averaged about 1.5 per cent per year in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The compromise between the professionally interested parties , the outsiders and the ‘ Barons ’ , was arrived at by , on the one hand , removing the numerical ceiling which operated previously , to the detriment of the large firms , but also , by placing a limitation on these same firms , preventing them from flooding the rota with in experienced staff . |
| 7 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 8 | In 1925 the Post Office , which operated independently or through other licensees outside London , went to the length of installing , for a private subscriber in Eastbourne , a free line to St Andrew 's Church 933 yards away , and charged him an annual rental of £1 17 6d ( £1 8712 ) under a three-year contract . |
| 9 | From 1471 there was built up an informal ‘ system ’ of government finance , which operated alongside , and to some extent in co-operation with , the old Exchequer . |
| 10 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 11 | In referral meetings attended by all the staff , an educational psychologist , and an education social worker , decisions on particular cases are taken according to a broad consensus which operated around two major and related considerations . |
| 12 | She had used some silky material to make a skirt which toned exactly with the wool , covered the buttons with the material of the skirt and the whole outfit was therefore beautifully co-ordinated . |
| 13 | The question could be asked why should the topic of monarchy in Britain not resemble the cultural truisms of McGuire ( 1964 ) , which lacked even an implicit defence ? |
| 14 | We have examined data from a survey conducted by one of us in which timed overnight urinary albumin excretion was measured in 976 European and 789 south Asian men aged 40–69 in west London . |
| 15 | Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 . |
| 16 | Mr Parretti has now been removed from the company by his banker Credit Lyonnais , which lent more than $1½ billion to his group of companies . |
| 17 | His own father had been a skilled mechanic ( a phrase which conveyed little to Clara ) and as he himself had managed to purchase by his own labours a three bedroomed semi-detached house in a pleasant suburban district , he might have been thought to have cause to feel fairly content with life . |
| 18 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 19 | These peaks were consistent with the existence of a local fivefold rotation axis and also provided a calculated self-rotation function which agreed very well with the observed self-rotation function . |
| 20 | Now a poised , elegant creature stared back , dressed in a stylish cowl-necked black dress which swooped dramatically at the back . |
| 21 | The texture of his voice was unfamiliar , and his face , when Eochaid glanced up , was drained with some sort of force which Eochaid suddenly saw was consuming anger . |
| 22 | Consequently , until 1935 the labour movement is of more interest when studied in its extra-parliamentary role , which centred largely around the issue of unemployment . |
| 23 | There was an undercurrent of curiosity which centred around Yuan 's presence . |
| 24 | In March , the Picture department , when pushed , warily quoted Canaletto 's world record of £1.2 million to the press , while Daniel and Cyrus was put ‘ in the Mantegna league ’ , which translated as £7–8 million . |
| 25 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |
| 26 | He fired a drive which looped crazily off Pat van den Hauwe 's heel . |
| 27 | Company 's such as Campeau , which plunged too deeply into debt when it bought Bloomingdale 's , will no longer be able to count on the US taxpayer to bail them out . |
| 28 | But their very strength , and their androgynous uniform , was invoked in the campaign to abolish their right to the work , a campaign which divided both male miners and coal owners during the 1890s . |
| 29 | Then he uttered the simple statement of his faith , one which read more tragically , in retrospect , than any other single thing he wrote : ‘ In order to work and to become an artist , one needs love . ’ |
| 30 | Arctic biological resources have been sufficient to support small , scattered , nomadic populations which lived mainly along the coast or rivers . |