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

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1 Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water .
2 With his television news background and now intimate knowledge of Middle East drugs trafficking , Coleman helped Ross and Silverman prepare what was generally considered to be as balanced and authoritative a survey of narco-terrorism as the media had ever presented to the American public , a contribution which they both generously acknowledged on several occasions afterwards and which subsequently led to Coleman 's appearance on NBC News after the Flight 103 disaster , although neither of them were aware then or before of his DIA/NARCOG affiliations .
3 This last was said with a kind of passionate zeal that was typical of Robert , and which sometimes grated on Stephen 's nerves .
4 I have met many of them at my advice surgery , and I will weep no tears over the demise of a tax that had no progressive element and which sometimes militated against people on low incomes .
5 It therefore became necessary to adopt a luni-solar calendar in which the months were measured by the phases of the moon but which also kept in step with the sun .
6 May 1986 The Centro de Arte Reina Sofía opens in the former General Hospital of Madrid and Atocha , a Neo-classical building designed by the Italian architect Francesco Sabatini to be even larger than the Escorial , but which never grew beyond pavilions surrounding a large courtyard .
7 The nearest thing I had seen to this were monsoon drains in Malaya : deep , concrete channels meant to take away storm water , but which usually lay like mantraps , just under the flood surface .
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