Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The part of the programme which had received highest priority was the introductory course in information retrieval for the engineering undergraduates . |
| 6 | She wore grubby jeans , torn at the knees , and an unironed acrylic sweater which had seen better days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That early hour also avoided having to go to the schools to take children , an action which had caused such controversy in November 1990 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Phil Judd , of Ski Tech Systems , pulled off the deal which involved supplying enough matting to lay a 200m piste . |
| 11 | ‘ For example , last summer the Royal Bank did a deal which involved issuing depositary shares in the US . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | GREG HARLOW won the Robert Hutchinson Opticians Masters bowls title last night emerging from a field which had included 13 internationals from England , Scotland , Wales and Jersey none of whom succeeded in reaching the final . |
| 14 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 15 | The case which had prompted these remarks involved a 13-year-old schoolboy , John Bird from Camden , who had shot an 18-year-old greengrocer 's son in the arm . |
| 16 | They therefore encouraged correspondingly narrow-based teaching which had attracted adverse comments by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate ( HMI ) in the National Secondary Survey . |
| 17 | It must be borne in mind that the majority of these data have been derived from subjects younger than 65 years ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) so that the effect of hypotensive drugs in the older age-groups regardless of their blood-pressure status was largely unknown until the recent publication of the European Working Party Trial which did show significant benefits in the elderly ( Amery et al , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | No mention of private Bills would be complete without paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest ( Sir P. McNair-Wilson ) for the way in which he chaired the Committee which sought to untangle this web . |
| 19 | An architecture which seemed to fulfill these requirements was the Chart parsing system ( Thompson and Ritchie 1984 ) . |
| 20 | It was the first protest that the capital had seen about acid rain , an environmental issue which had stimulated political curiosity but very little action . |
| 21 | Existing East German laws on abortion would continue to apply for two years pending a new law to be passed by the all-German parliament ( thus resolving the issue which had caused most dispute among the parties at the end of negotiations on the treaty ) . |
| 22 | However , the bill exempted the mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , an issue which had provoked fierce rioting in recent years and had played a major part in the collapse of the government of V. P. Singh in November 1990 [ see p. 37854 ] . |
| 23 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 24 | That survey inspired Edinburgh District Council 's Women 's Committee to organise a pioneering campaign which aimed to raise male awareness of the problem of crimes of violence against women . |
| 25 | The fact that Sanders , an Englishman , had produced the plan which had changed French plants from ailing and unprofitable operations in the sixties , into expanding and profitable divisions in the seventies was discreetly overlooked . |
| 26 | Neither side can afford to be blamed for the collapse of a dialogue which had raised Spanish hopes of an end to ETA violence . |
| 27 | Some black activists , such as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan , suggested that such trials , together with the AIDS and drugs epidemics , were evidence of a white plot which aimed to destroy black Americans . |
| 28 | First , he argued , there had been post-revolutionary disillusionment which had allowed reactionary forces to become influential . |
| 29 | Sir Richard Acland and a group of colleagues , mostly middleclass socialists , had established a new party called Common Wealth which undertook to challenge Conservative candidates at by-elections . |
| 30 | This represented a return to the financial dependency on a parent which had characterised these carers ' younger , pre-adult days : |