Example sentences of "which [noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion that an astronomical innovation might require a new physics was subversive of a hierarchy in which physics had enjoyed greater prestige than astronomy . |
| 2 | She pledged to reduce the power of the Interior Ministry and to reform the Defence Ministry — two areas of government in which competences had caused greatest controversy in recent months [ see pp. 38880 ; 38922 ; 38972 ] . |
| 3 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 4 | In South Korea , with which Czechoslovakia had established diplomatic relations in 1990 , an agreement promoting bilateral economic co-operation was signed on April 27 as were investment and double taxation agreements . |
| 5 | The philosophy which Plowden embraced rejected this thesis because the evidence upon which it drew ( demonstrated in the quality of learning in the schools which it visited ) ran counter to this belief . |
| 6 | As they approached , Corbett realised the fortifications of Earlston were a square tower of pleasing proportions within a stockade or peel which Corbett had seen many times on his journeys into Scotland . |
| 7 | In his answer , Gilmore also took up and dismissed as totally unfounded a claim which Paisley had made several weeks earlier in the Commons that his own life was in danger from government agents . |
| 8 | His remarks , which broke an established Japanese taboo prohibiting even oblique criticism of the monarch , had coincided with an intensive international debate concerning the degree to which Hirohito had exercised real power prior to 1945 . |
| 9 | Considering all the insupportable things which Wheeler had spent twenty minutes saying to him , he felt remarkably calm . |
| 10 | Minnigrey ( 1851–2 ) , illustrated by ( Sir ) John Gilbert [ q.v. ] , is said to have increased sales of the London Journal to half a million copies , for which newsagents had to send special wagons to the station . |
| 11 | The course which Sukarno sought to follow included perjuangan but also hoped to extract dividends from diplomacy ( diplomasi ) . |
| 12 | Israel became the fourth country , after Hungary , Lithuania and Bulgaria , with which Ukraine had established diplomatic relations . |
| 13 | We should not glamorize the overcrowded , insanitary rural cottages — scarcely adequate as holiday homes for a two-child family now — in which parents tried to raise five children , which were so strikingly condemned in Chadwick 's 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes ( Flinn 1965 ) . |
| 14 | Nowhere was the stolid exceptionalism of the British more evident than in the rejection of constitutional reform and in the way in which Conservatives sought to portray this reform as the road to chaos — as if the US , Australia , Germany , Spain and other developed democracies had not prospered with more representative systems . |
| 15 | Throughout his childhood , Matthew can recall feeling angry just once — when his father unwittingly trod on a model boat which Matthew had spent several weeks constructing . |
| 16 | She marched past Elinor 's bed into the library ; in front of the large window that overlooked the sea was the wooden kitchen table upon which Elinor had written Deadly Fortune and her every book since . |
| 17 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 18 | The impact of processes in the study of coastal geomorphology was reflected in the content of a major text ( King , 1972 ) and a further text ( Davies , 1973 ) included a map of wave environments of the world , which is one way in which geographers endeavoured to establish spatial variations . |
| 19 | One of the ways in which CMEAD hoped to address these criticisms was by encouraging the reform of management development , both in terms of its content and of its delivery , with a view to widening access to effective management education and development . |
| 20 | Behind the famous outcry of the converted Muslim princess in his poem lay a century in which theologians had humanized Christian teaching , and Christian and Muslim had met and mingled on all the frontiers of southern and south-eastern Christendom . |
| 21 | Some men had books which dealt with events in which Zuwaya had played some part , and others had seen them . |
| 22 | A yawning chasm in the sky , through which people had glimpsed fiery furnaces where the chains of evil were forged … the necromancers ' Black Looms … |
| 23 | He thought that he could defined the , the simplest concepts to which Peano claimed to reduce arithmetical ideas , to classes and relations between classes , and even perhaps in terms of something still simpler , quite purely in logical conceptions like that of implication . |
| 24 | My parents , using mule transport , travelled to Addis Ababa through the Chercher mountains , by way of Harar , that ancient walled city which Burton had reached fifty-four years earlier . |
| 25 | His widow settled for the $1 million which RCA had offered 14 years earlier . |
| 26 | It was the third occasion on which Wingti had become Prime Minister . |
| 27 | As a matter of fact , the whole issue had been built round a concept which Nina had labelled Special Women . |
| 28 | The chains supporting the deck of timber are made of wrought-iron links which Brown had patented three years earlier . |