Example sentences of "which [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1912 Freeman published a new series of Thorndyke short stories in Pearson 's magazine , starting with ‘ The Case of Oscar Brodski ’ , which made secure his important place in detective fiction . |
| 2 | Only H. W. Taylor was married or over 30 , and Viljoen 's diary suggests a vigorous special existence between Tests — which may have contributed to the welter of dropped catches which helped sway the issue . |
| 3 | The fall in turnover reflected last year 's closure of the loss-making magazine division , which helped improve operating margins . |
| 4 | Now , when I look at the pictures of the car after the crash , with the passenger-side floor sill and roof crumpled and distorted and my seat moved forward — which helped trap me in the car — I wonder whether we chose the car on the correct criteria . |
| 5 | Spenser represented real cultural preoccupations in his texts but these representational forms became vehicles which helped enforce cultural categories and the apparent identities they confer . |
| 6 | Part of the blame lies with the shortage of high-quality practice placements , says CCETSW , which helped prepare 37 new NVQs for submission to the National Council for Vocational Qualifications . |
| 7 | Maggie sipped her whisky , which helped steady her . |
| 8 | This identification was one factor which provoked a major attack on the practice of International Relations which helped usher in a new way of thinking about the subject . |
| 9 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 10 | The most noteworthy — established in 1953 and inspired by the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress — was the Spark , which helped bring together Indian , African , coloured and white opposition to apartheid . |
| 11 | This is good news indeed and the students and families concerned are most grateful for all the support which helped bring about such a satisfactory outcome . |
| 12 | The period between the end of the twelfth century and the middle of the thirteenth saw several crucial innovations in weaponry and armour which helped make the medieval knight what he was always intended to be : a superb fighting machine . |
| 13 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 14 | The success was the Metro-Cammell Class 156 , which helped create a new-style hourly Anglia-North West service and transform domestic Scottish and Welsh services . |
| 15 | Manchester City were just one of the clubs impressed by his aggressive style a style which helped dump the Frist Division side out of the Rumbelows League Cup and FA Cup at Ayresome Park . |
| 16 | Over several decades he brought a level of energy , commitment and enthusiasm to athletics which helped transform the sport into its modern form . |
| 17 | THE MANAGEMENT team which helped develop the B & Q DIY business is on the acquisition trail again — this time in the gardening business with a ‘ multi-million pound ’ deal to buy Kent Garden Centres , writes Jerry Connolly . |
| 18 | The wheelchairs were on show at ARCOS , the Association for Rehabilitation of Communication and Oral Skills , which helped develop the Sapphire . |
| 19 | Volkswagen , which helped develop the smaller Eurobag specifically for smaller cars , introduced the Eurobag as optional equipment on the Golf last year and has now made it available on the Passat saloon as well . |
| 20 | There 's an appetite for Mould , which helped sell out his two recent London shows with ease . |
| 21 | Major conservation organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature , which helped finance the Namibian de-horning , are opposed to the move , on the grounds that a legal market will only encourage poaching elsewhere in Africa and Asia . |
| 22 | The new compressor is between 9 and 15 per cent more efficient than current models , according to the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , which helped finance its development . |
| 23 | It was work completed in Alaska which helped provide a clue to the nature of the problem at BA-1 , explains head of production technology Lindsay Brown . |
| 24 | A feature of the safety approach favoured by the CEGB is the use of microprocessor technology in a bid to side-step the errors by operators which helped cause the Three Mile Island accident in the US four years ago . |
| 25 | Two CWMBRAN staff took part in a 24 hour sponsored famine which helped raise a total of £324 . |
| 26 | A marketing plan was put in place which helped reduce dependence on the naval base , Faslane ; targeted other sources of revenue ; improved the hotel 's profile and instituted an effective staff training programme . |
| 27 | The new middle classes of industrial capitalism produced symbols which helped realize the value of industrial commodities . |
| 28 | Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ . |
| 29 | Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ . |
| 30 | FURIOUS Howard Kendall stormed out of Loftus Road tight-lipped last night after a double sending-off which helped plunge his troubled side deeper into the relegation mire . |