Example sentences of "[noun prp] which [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
| 2 | A classic example of this was an action brought by the dependants of a US citizen killed in the BEA Trident which collided with a Yugoslavian DC-9 over Zagreb . |
| 3 | There were renewed protests in late May which coincided with a 10-day commemoration of the anniversary of the 1980 Kwangju uprising , a pro-democracy rebellion which had been brutally suppressed with the killing of up to 2,000 civilians . |
| 4 | The result was a three-year project conducted by Lynn McGregor , Maggie Tate and Ken Robinson which culminated in a major publication ( 1977 ) and an excellent film of dynamic teaching ( Take Three ) . |
| 5 | In Estreito da Calheta is the Church of Nossa Senhora da Graça which began as a sixteenth-century chapel , although the present church dates from 1791 to 1793 . |
| 6 | In Britain one of the quintessentially Fifties symbols of the search for El Dorado ( or the golden calf ) was a gold-plated Daimler which belonged to a curious pair of headline-hunters , Sir Bernard and Lady Docker . |
| 7 | A press conference was held by the Chairman , Chris Clark and senior management from JM Japan which resulted in a great deal of enthusiastic coverage in the Japanese and foreign press . |
| 8 | There was an increase in the population of central and northern Italy which led to a rapid development of agriculture , a rise in general prosperity and a subsequent increase in merchant goods . |
| 9 | At one time , there was one high up on Etna which served as a convenient overnight refuge for geologists watching activity in the crater . |
| 10 | Dr Drummond said she was medical director of the Achamore Centre in Glasgow which dealt with a wide range of children 's problems , including sexual abuse . |
| 11 | The detainees had been among 115 signatories of an open letter to Siyad Barre which called for a negotiated end to civil war , respect for human and civil rights , and multiparty elections . |
| 12 | The White Paper drew on studies conducted earlier in the decade in Liverpool , Birmingham , and London which pointed to a debilitating flight of capital and skilled labour from the critical areas of deprivation . |
| 13 | In spite of her apparent self-confidence , in spite of her twenty-five years , in spite of having had the best that money could buy since she was a little girl , there was an ingenuousness about Harriet which sprung from a yearning need to prove herself — to her father , to her contemporaries , to the whole wide world . |