Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions . |
| 2 | Charles , thinking that Saxony was now safely secured , accepted this offer , which effectively pushed his own frontier beyond the Pyrenees . |
| 3 | His dark brown gaze kept fixing on her , though , which eventually ruined what little appetite she had left . |
| 4 | She wore a peach-coloured suit which only emphasised her broad hips . |
| 5 | MacDonald decided , naturally but disastrously , that the obvious objective was to import into the living rooms of the wireless-owning population the soaring platform oratory which so moved his immediate audiences . |
| 6 | The last resort was the Manchester Evening News , which finally ran our Goldfinger advert . |
| 7 | Since 1986 , when Parkinson 's disease was first diagnosed , he has been battling against the illness which finally ended his illustrious football career . |
| 8 | To this the French contributed their own mistakes which soon lost them any advantage they may have enjoyed . |
| 9 | Comsat Corp , which just changed its legal name from Communications Satellite Corp , is moving its headquarters to Bethesda , Maryland from Washington , DC on June 1 ; all operations at the Washington office are to move to Bethesda or Clarksburg . |
| 10 | Belfast 's European champion produced a quite stunning performance which totally belied his relative immaturity and made a mockery of the fact that he went into this fight with no world rating of any description . |
| 11 | ‘ There , that 's not so bad , is it ? ’ he said , giving her the smile which always transformed his ruined face . |
| 12 | Again he experienced the heightened awareness and sharpening of the senses , which always accompanied his bestial transformation into a primal killer . |
| 13 | Nor should the West be excessively high-minded now in condemning a regime which once served its anti-Soviet purposes so well . |
| 14 | In every human body , they insisted , there remains a spark of the Divine Principle which once irradiated its entire being . |
| 15 | They returned with artefacts which gradually superseded his industrial collections . |
| 16 | Possibly the fact that the Robin Hood ballads , which probably took their early form in this period , seem to have had a southern origin but set their events in the North ( particularly in Barnsdale , north of Doncaster , rather than in Sherwood ) , reflects the beliefs of southerners that the North was a strange and wild world . |
| 17 | For some of their land to be handed over to the Roman soldiers was a bitter pill to swallow , for it meant the loss of the Colne peninsula and much else , which left them only the Essex marches and lands to the north and the area round modern Chelmsford , which probably became their tribal centre . |
| 18 | I was in a numbered uniform of massive symbolic importance with nuances of style which clearly defined our social identity . |
| 19 | They were not met by the UK , which also granted itself invalid derogations , and the country ended up in the European Court ( see below ) . |
| 20 | The North of England Branch Award went to Nottingham Old Market Square , which also exceeded its annual target and at the end of March had 22 customers using Royline . |
| 21 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 22 | The bank , which also held its annual meeting yesterday , rejected a shareholders ' demand for it to sell its US-based fund management business , National Securities & Research . |
| 23 | Particularly when Madame bought her a matching pale blue cloche , cut quite high at the back , and with a deep brim on the right side , which practically obscured her right eye . |
| 24 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |
| 25 | Unable fully to abreact their responses to the trauma in their still quite limited conscious awareness , and unprepared by evolution for the revolutionary change which had suddenly overtaken them , our distant hominid ancestors dealt with the upheaval in their psychological and social lives in part by repressing it and forcing out of consciousness the irreconcilable conflicts which now occupied their instinctual drives . |
| 26 | Her hair was splendidly awry because of the lead curling strips which , when removed , would leave her with a glorious gold-bright halo , but which now gave her angry face the fierce and tangled aspect of a Greek Fury . |
| 27 | Lt Col Stewart 's DSO was awarded for his ‘ inspired command ’ of the Cheshires during their hazardous tour , a position which often placed his own life in danger . |
| 28 | Lt Col Stewart 's DSO was awarded for his inspired command of the Cheshires during their hazardous tour a position which often placed his own life in danger . |
| 29 | Harry McDonald was a strong , sturdy left-back , but he possessed a turn of speed that was unexpected in a defender and which frequently surprised his opposing wingers , so that he was our first-choice number three for over three seasons . |
| 30 | And he rarely complained during his recuperation from the first back operation , to repair a number of fractures , which looked like being successful when he returned for Middlesex at the start of 1991 and took four for 60 against Somerset with a performance which particularly impressed his own wicket-keeper Paul Farbrace . |