Example sentences of "[det] [noun] which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait . |
| 2 | These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) . |
| 3 | The Korean War and several other border wars , backed by the super-powers , had been judged not worth pressing the nuclear button for and it was this consideration which had produced the British H-Bomb in 1957 . |
| 4 | In spite of its success — the book quickly sold out its first edition of 60,000 — Laura dreaded the thought of another book which failed to represent the company as she saw it . |
| 5 | It was agreed that law and order should be restored immediately , that the conflicts could only be resolved in accordance with the USSR and Moldavian Constitutions , and that moratoriums should be declared on the resolutions by all sides which had produced the crises ( not only the Gagauz and Russian secession declarations , but also Moldavia 's August 1989 language law — see p. 36855 ) . |
| 6 | Those areas which had shown the greatest price increasing during the boom tended to suffer most when the boom ended . |
| 7 | It was essential for the United States to explain to those countries which had supported the allied war effort against Japan how the dangers posed by a Japanese economic revival could be surmounted . |
| 8 | The main buyers were those plants which planned to delay the introduction of desulphurizing " scrubber " equipment . |
| 9 | The combined effect of these ‘ taxes ’ was to make the stamped press an expensive commodity , thereby restricting its circulation , and to make the ‘ unstamped ’ press , i.e. those newspapers which refused to pay the duties , illegal and so subject to punitive measures . |
| 10 | Rank could blame the government all he liked , but it was his own policies which had antagonized the Americans , alienated audiences and significantly increased the company 's overdraft . |
| 11 | However , any arrangements which acted to endorse the Soviet presence in distinct Third World regions were likely to be resisted by the United States . |
| 12 | Out of the same pocket which had held the glasses he produced a small blue and gold box . |
| 13 | But he also provided the second , because — with the possible exception of the United States , that land which appeared to promise the poor a personal way out of lifelong poverty , the worker a private exit from the working class , and every citizen equality with every other — the working classes knew that the liberal free market alone would not give them their rights and their needs . |