Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The same sort of guilt by association which had tainted Keynesian economics in the wake of the Phillips curve débâcle has tainted the rational expectations hypothesis owing to its close connection , through Keynesian eyes , with the policy inefficacy proposition of the new classical macroeconomics . |
2 | The South Devon of the period , in South Africa , was still able to provide milk and draught power as well as beef and proved a good match for the local Africanders , especially the lighter-coated animals which tended to develop dark muzzles ( disliked at the time by English breeders who preferred a dark red , woolly type with a light muzzle ) . |
3 | Twice they disturbed foxes which had found sunlit corners in which to blink away the daylight , and the smell of fox was almost constantly about them . |
4 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
5 | In legislative elections in March 1987 the RPR won seven seats and formed a government in coalition with the UPL which had won six seats . |
6 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |
7 | The part of the programme which had received highest priority was the introductory course in information retrieval for the engineering undergraduates . |
8 | She wore grubby jeans , torn at the knees , and an unironed acrylic sweater which had seen better days . |
9 | Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats . |
10 | On April 22 Rauf Denktash obtained 67.5 per cent of the vote to be re-elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognised only by Turkey ) , with relatively few voting for candidates of opposition parties which wanted to offer more concessions to the Greek Cypriots . |
11 | The government 's attitude , and its relation to feminists and purists , displayed all the hesitations and ambiguities which had characterized similar debates in the 1880s . |
12 | The first half of the 18th century had seemed kind enough : improved climatic conditions and better harvests had combined with the disappearance of bubonic plague to help curtail the mortality crises which had beset Northern Europe up until then . |
13 | Based on the 1984 Peace and Friendship Treaty , which created the framework for settling the border disputes which had brought both countries to the brink of war in 1978 [ see p. 32781 ] , the agreement covered 22 points of dispute . |
14 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
15 | However , Mr Harvey welcomed the ban on cars which had caused endless problems for shoppers in the past . |
16 | BA has already replaced pins on 24 aircraft which had reached 3,000 take-offs . |
17 | That early hour also avoided having to go to the schools to take children , an action which had caused such controversy in November 1990 . |
18 | Collins was the other striking contributor within Scotland 's side , tirelessly continuing at international level where he had left off for his club in Saturday 's Old Firm game and looking unaffected by the demands of a workload which had caused wholesale disruption to the national team elsewhere . |
19 | Phil Judd , of Ski Tech Systems , pulled off the deal which involved supplying enough matting to lay a 200m piste . |
20 | ‘ For example , last summer the Royal Bank did a deal which involved issuing depositary shares in the US . |
21 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
22 | For 1991/92 the government in April 1991 charge-capped 14 English local authorities ( of which three were Conservative-controlled ) , this being upheld , in the case of eight local authorities which had challenged central government , by a vote in the Commons on May 21 . |
23 | Under some circumstances federal prosecutors would be empowered to seek the death penalty even in the 14 states which had prohibited capital punishment . |
24 | This risk negligence also affected the choice of technology : projects which appeared to achieve high levels of production rapidly by using advanced technology would be preferred to those which achieved them more slowly by using more appropriate technology . |
25 | Malpass 's car was a five-year-old Vauxhall which had seen better days , but then have n't we all . |
26 | The horizons within which most people 's lives were confined became narrower ; the far-flung contacts which had linked distant provinces became attenuated , local clerical and military élites came to form cohesive , small-scale groupings with local or regional interests and loyalties , sometimes intense local pride . |
27 | Thus , in May 1988 , one of the highest turn-outs of Lords this century saw the Government home on the introduction of a flat-rate poll tax , a measure which had caused great concern amongst regular attendants . |
28 | They were loath to convict , especially in cases which seemed to contradict common law . |
29 | Mr. Munby , for the Official Solicitor , representing Miss T. , drew our attention to the line of probate cases which had considered undue influence . |
30 | On 4 June , the same crowds which had filled Happy Valley with rallies of pop music and bright colours gathered , now in mourning clothes of black and white . |