Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year the Church of England led the way out of a moral impasse which trapped the Catholic Church by giving birth control its blessing under the name of Family Planning . |
| 2 | THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China . |
| 3 | Furthermore the Housing Association which provided the main source of funds to local Housing Associations is now in financial difficulty itself . |
| 4 | To create an experiment which yielded the maximum information without becoming boring for the subjects the design is slightly altered from that used in Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 5 | Erhard was succeeded in 1966 by Kurt Kiesinger in a coalition which included the Social Democrats . |
| 6 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
| 7 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 8 | PAUL Peschisllibo , Birmingham City 's Canadian International striker , demonstrated why he is currently a player attracting considerable attention with a brilliant display of attacking football which destroyed the multi-million Derby side . |
| 9 | The colonial period ushered in an era of foreign investment which gave the large scale trading houses of Europe a hold on the development of local economies allowing little room for Africa 's entrepreneurs to develop their skills . |
| 10 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
| 11 | there is a better chance now than ever before to break down that prejudice which prompted the Irish people to confound in one common hatred the oppressed classes of England with the oppressors of both countries . |
| 12 | One evident result of this , whatever others there might be , appears to be that much information about clients and potential clients is shared informally , so that , for example , information could come ‘ straight from the surgery ’ in advance of a more formal notification of the episode which triggered the eventual admission of the case outlined above . |
| 13 | It was the Cloggy episode which started the whispering campaign . |
| 14 | It was a typical winter 's day on the east coast , with a chill , sleet-laden wind which caused the official party to make a hasty withdrawal to the reception lounge after the launching ceremony . |
| 15 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 16 | The drawing which accompanied the Illustrated London News report was done by Edward Bradley , described as a Durham correspondent . |
| 17 | In the absence of any inter-party consensus on who should fill the office of President , no candidate secured a sufficient majority in 15 rounds of voting between May 13 and May 23 in the 1,014-member electoral college which comprised the 630 deputies , the 315 elected senators , the 11 life senators and 58 delegates from regional councils . |
| 18 | I just wanted to s erm congratulate er whoever it was and put together the curriculum er programme which secured the three quarters of a million pound for all those which will I , I think I can understand extremely competitive and I would like to erm give credit to there because that will be enormously for the business which will give proper jobs er which is er very useful to the environment and , and , and really just to record erm that , that particular er success . |
| 19 | At the extraordinary congress in December the 2,000 delegates had adopted a programme which committed the Socialist Party to act as a " barrier to the right and extreme-right and to pursue economic modernization , social justice , and the construction of Europe " . |
| 20 | The split in the ruling National Salvation Front ( NSF ) of March 1992 was formalized when the NSF-22 December group ( supporting President Ion Iliescu ) held its founding conference on April 7 , electing as its leadership a 25-strong provisional national council and adopting a programme which described the NSF-22 December as a " social-democratic " party . |
| 21 | The discipline within anthropology which maintained the closest relation to material culture studies was archaeology , which has always been highly dependent upon such studies , since its task of resurrecting ancient societies is based in large measure on the interpretation of the material remains excavated from those societies . |
| 22 | Several of you are already subscribed twice in this way — as a result of the confusion which occured the last time the Oxford mailer was messed about with . |
| 23 | The thin woollen dress she wore under her housecoat had a low neck which displayed the deep cleavage between her soft breasts . |
| 24 | It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret . |
| 25 | Voltaire praised our attitude to commerce , and the lack of snobbery which allowed the younger sons of the gentry to become businessmen . |
| 26 | Through skilful manoeuvring he was able to build up a research department which concretized the new importance awarded to scientific inquiry in public health campaigns . |
| 27 | Usually again there was a department which controlled the internal administration of the ministry and its finances ; sometimes this was also involved in the appointment and promotion of diplomats . |
| 28 | Penny Wright ( to whom I am indebted for this story ) was attending a healing ceremony which involved the temporary burial alive of the patient in this case a child . |
| 29 | Weinrich-Haste ( 1984 ) , for example , in a study which examined the political values of undergraduates , found that sociologists , at one extreme , tended towards liberalism and radicalism , while engineers were the most politically and socially conservative of the groups she looked at . |
| 30 | Public cynicism about obscenity control was confirmed when twelve members of Scotland Yard 's " dirty squad " were jailed after conviction for involvement in what their judge described as " an evil conspiracy which turned the Obscene Publications Act into a vast protection racket " . |