Example sentences of "[noun] which [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The parents agreed that the priority problem was temper tantrums which always occurred after refusal of Joanne 's demands .
2 The outcome of this meeting however , was that the Task Force not only decided to question the research priorities of the ARC , but also their methodology which typically relied upon research contracts awarded to outside firms of consultants to whom : —
3 There seemed to be wide horizontal bands of light which slowly changed in intensity , with brighter spots growing and fading in places mysteriously against the deeps of eternity .
4 I 've been seriously caught out more than once on early ambitious trips — the ice axe which nearly stayed at home was worth its weight in gold .
5 She was the only midwife in our district and if the women could n't afford her the neighbours helped , a practice which often ended in tragedy .
6 It was an exercise to prove the existence of a Nonconformist unity which only came into existence by the exercise .
7 During this brief interregnum , it pleased Zacco to call Nicholas to St Hilarion for disputatious council meetings which occasionally ended in concord .
8 We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment .
9 The people , or " the masses " , had usurped powers and functions which properly belonged to government and the state .
10 Greater Manchester Police are now looking into other aspects of the murder inquiry including this interview with a policeman witness under hypnosis which recently came to light .
11 Thus in Israel associations were formed on an industry-wide basis which usually coincided with product and labour markets ( Shirom and Jacobson , 1975 ) .
12 In all control and spinal patients studied , there was an initial increase in external anal sphincter electromyographic activity on insertion of the anorectal tube which then declined in concert with the anal pressure to reach a stable baseline .
13 BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares .
14 In one leading case from 1963 , a Fascist leader was convicted under the section for making a speech at a public meeting which deliberately provoked to fury the Jews , the members of CND , and the communists who had come to Trafalgar Square with the express intention of stopping the meeting .
15 In Shepherd 's Bush , where he grew up , he and his family suffered an incident in which the police , who had surrounded the house in order to arrest Christie 's brother ( on a charge which never came to court ) then burst in and carried out the violent , unprovoked arrest of Christie and his father .
16 dissenting ) held that the evidence established that the father had subsequently acquiesced in the wrongful removal or retention of the children in this country by the mother , and ordered that the case should be remitted to a judge of the High Court for consideration of the exercise of the discretion which accordingly arose under article 13 as to whether he should decline to order that they be returned to the jurisdiction of the Australian court .
17 Ms Robinson trained at Darlington College of Education which then specialised in nursery teaching and the town , she says , was a pilot for nursery education .
18 The Eastern fathers , and nearly all the Latin fathers too , held a view of the Devil which eventually fell into disrepute .
19 Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery .
20 It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night .
21 A similar checklist in the original report , showing companies which used five or more techniques , threw up names like Maxwell Communication Corporation which subsequently went into administration , Asda whose boardroom shake-up followed a £365m pre-tax loss , LEP which is now in the hands of a company doctor , British Aerospace which is about to undergo further restructuring , and Ultramar which was taken over after reporting losses .
22 The ruler continued to enjoy , unless he were unusually vicious or unlucky , a respect which sometimes verged on worship .
23 It lies in the immediate background of another family of views of consciousness which , at the time I write , is propagated with the zeal which once went into behaviourism .
24 What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death .
25 The new approach which thus came into being and swept rapidly to prominence in Switzerland and Germany was clearly very different in tone and style from the previously established Liberal Theology .
26 The boat 's wrap-around windscreens were made of black polarised glass which only added to Dream Baby 's ugly air of menace .
27 These results , were bore no relation to visible bacillary form mycobacteria or spheroplasts , suggest that M paratuberculosis was present in the original intestinal tissues of the Crohn 's disease patients , in a form which hardly replicated in broth culture , it at all .
28 During Jan. 13-15 , in a pogrom which reportedly surpassed in horror the massacre of Armenians in Sumgait in February 1988 [ see pp. 36034-35 ] , up to 60 people , most of them Armenians , were killed .
29 The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography .
30 Lloyd was wearing the bottom half of a pale grey pinstripe suit with turn-ups which probably took on board water when it rained .
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