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

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1 It will be noted they provided the bulk of the players for the Canadian side which so impressed against France and New Zealand in the World Cup .
2 They seem , however , to have had little support amongst the lords , and the opposition which undoubtedly existed to Gaunt 's reversal of the acts of the Good Parliament lacked leadership and co-ordination .
3 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 : —
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 She experienced a sense of detachment before cutting herself , and the act seemed to relieve feelings of anxiety and tension which usually arose from problems in her relationship with her boyfriend .
8 He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July .
9 It was an exercise to prove the existence of a Nonconformist unity which only came into existence by the exercise .
10 Most of the fairways are affected by crosswind which yesterday gusted to 30mph , making the par-5s genuine three-shotters , and the quartet of par-3s anything but short .
11 Hated that slim body with its perfect skin which always nestled into Jacob 's embrace .
12 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 .
13 In 1912 he first used stencilled figures and letters in ‘ Guitare ’ , an oval painting owned by the Musée de Grenoble , and in 1913 adopted collage techniques , as in ‘ Tivoli-Cinéma ’ , a work which once belonged to Pablo Picasso .
14 FOLLOWING the success of the Midland Railway Centre two excursion trains to London for Christmas Shopping which both departed from Butterley Station , the Trust is now discussing the possibility of operating a number of other trips during the summer months with Regional Railways for 1993 .
15 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 .
16 Thus in Israel associations were formed on an industry-wide basis which usually coincided with product and labour markets ( Shirom and Jacobson , 1975 ) .
17 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 .
18 However , building societies have taken advantage of the new regulations which allow them to raise 40% of funds on the wholesale markets , and are intent on maintaining their market share by encroaching on areas of lending business which traditionally belonged to banks .
19 Only a simmering unrest which regularly erupted in riots or strikes , the leaders of such mutinies invariably found and executed .
20 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 .
21 A by-election in Haryana 's Meham constituency in February 1990 provoked a crisis which seriously undermined V. P. Singh 's Union government and the Janata Dal [ see p. 37315 ] .
22 , Director of SCRE , reflects on ‘ what is research ? ’ in an article which originally appeared in Observations , the bulletin of the Scottish Teacher Research Network
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Coote , along with other campaigners , backed the new aggressive police action , testifying to the special relationship which now existed between purists and the police .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The Eastern fathers , and nearly all the Latin fathers too , held a view of the Devil which eventually fell into disrepute .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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