Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
| 2 | Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar . |
| 3 | He remembered the intense heat , the sunlight dancing off sword and dagger points , the roar of battle , the blood which pumped like a thousand fountains as men fell screaming from horrible wounds in head , body or thigh . |
| 4 | LITTLE Jolene Watkins , 11 , was fighting for life last night after being crushed by a runaway car which hurtled into a play- ground . |
| 5 | This came as the climax of a well-balance programme which began with a lithe rendering of Weber 's Oberon Overture , fluent and energetic . |
| 6 | It consisted of a bedroom with en suite bathroom , balcony , small sitting-room with breakfast bar , compact kitchen in pickled pine , and a large square terrace which served as an outdoor dining area , complete with round marble table and four chairs . |
| 7 | Thus the Sino-Indian border disputes which led to a localized war in 1962 brought some joint Anglo-American action to try to deter China from further military action , and especially from air attacks on Indian cities . |
| 8 | The greatest surprise came when in 1935 Warner Bros released Black Fury , a movie which depicted in a direct and totally unprecedented way the impact of a strike on a coal-mining community . |
| 9 | Soon Babushka fell into a deep sleep only to be woken by a beautiful golden light which came from a far corner of the stable . |
| 10 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
| 11 | There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing . |
| 12 | Her features were too irregular — large brown eyes , a small tip-tilted nose and a wide mouth which broke into an odd lop-sided smile when she was happy . |
| 13 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 14 | A notable feature of the Maya calendar was the era known as the ‘ Long Count ’ , a day-count which began from a conventional starting-point believed to be 10 August 3113 BC according to our calendar . |
| 15 | Miloš and Marasli negotiated a settlement which provided for a Serbian administration , based on a national council of the knezovi of each of the twelve nahijes , who in their own districts would work alongside a Turkish administrator ( müsellim ) . |
| 16 | It was as though a white cloak had been thrown over the entire countryside , a cloak which gleamed beneath an enormous ghostly-white moon , robbing the night of its darkness . |
| 17 | ‘ It is easier for the institutions to give us records of all accounts rather than trying to strip out just those accounts which paid above a certain level of interest . |
| 18 | Each had long hair which flowed in a golden mane down her back ; and despite the difference in age , they were of similar height . |
| 19 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
| 20 | The upshot was a story which appeared in a tabloid newspaper during the World Cup headlined : ‘ Gus : Love on the Dole ’ . |
| 21 | Patients with colorectal tumours ( benign and malignant ) and inflammatory bowel disease underwent standard bowel preparation which consisted of a low residue diet for two days and picolax ( nordic pharmaceuticals , feltham , middlesex ) on the day before surgery . |
| 22 | First , Athens lost Boiotia in a rising which ended in an Athenian defeat at Coronea . |
| 23 | There was a passageway which ended with an abrupt vertical drop into darkness , but it had a conveniently adjacent stalagmite for attaching a rope . |
| 24 | The Situationists ' activities within the cultural sphere constituted an attempt to create a unified range of activities which functioned as a radical critique of the conventional boundaries between specialisations embedded in the institutions , practices and agencies of modern life . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 26 | In the early years of the euro-dollar market 's growth , the USA incurred an increasing external deficit which led to a considerable accumulation of dollar claims ( deposits ) by non-US residents . |
| 27 | The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion . |
| 28 | It made a long-drawn-out noise which sounded like a high-pitched foghorn and backed away , raising its hands to its mouth . |
| 29 | His skilful efforts to put the Assembly in the wrong were abetted by the deputies ' seeming determination to alienate the masses from the regime , attempts which culminated in an electoral law of 1850 which disenfranchised some 3,000,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification . |
| 30 | This document , written by Hornby , emphasized that the Council had set up a procedure for dealing with proposals which began with a detailed scrutiny of documents from the college and involved painstaking work by the subject boards , so that the Council ‘ might establish the standards of its degrees ’ . |