Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in my newspaper career I was privileged to act as front page editor for a short time during which I enjoyed writing the 8-column headline and then arranging the other headlines , photo blocks and single or double columns to present a well-balanced and good looking front page spread . |
| 2 | showed us the lovely crystal glass which she had received the previous Wednesday at Wembley Conference Centre . |
| 3 | Subtitled ‘ A Satire ’ , the novel is a bitter , pessimistic work in which the ominous subcurrents of Brooke-Rose 's earlier novels are seen in their most threatening light , and the gradual disintegration to which she had subjected the traditional realist novel in her three previous works is brought to an explosive climax . |
| 4 | On the desk before her lay a slip of paper , onto which she 'd copied the basic details of a single credit card entry noted in Charlie 's records . |
| 5 | I ca n't remember now which one had copped the leaky bath , but then what did it matter ? |
| 6 | These included Candida , Heartbreak House , The Wild Duck and An Ideal Husband in which we agreed to play the dreadful Chilterns . |
| 7 | As well as being a mate of Yeti 's at school we worked together at Whiteleys , the department store in Queensway , on Thursday evenings after school and all day Saturday — for which we got paid the grand total of 36 shillings or £1.80 today . |
| 8 | We could calculate the heritability for a character of which we did know the exact genetics ( such as Mendel 's peas ) , but there would be little point in doing so , because the actual genotypes controlling the trait are more informative than the heritability . |
| 9 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 10 | The train of events which they began exposed the American system of government to a challenge at once humiliating and formidable . |
| 11 | One important feature of the ground battle for which the Allied forces at all levels were profoundly grateful was the fact that the chemical warfare attacks for which they had prepared the protective equipment described in the San Francisco Chronicle of 19 February 1991 never materialized . |
| 12 | Flaherty and MacKnobb had produced thin gold and silver and emerald paint with which they had coloured the fine charcoal designs and the end result was really rather good . |
| 13 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 14 | The other hand grasped a kind of huge steering wheel attached to the side of the ladle , which they turned to tip the molten metal into the small holes in the mould-boxes . |
| 15 | They were not simply transcriptions of the power of the conquerors and the coercive force with which they attempted to annihilate the existing culture and beliefs of the Indians and impose Christianity . |
| 16 | Harry Bradshaw , who died in December at the age of 77 , was probably as well known for the manner in which he failed to win the 1949 Open as his considerable success elsewhere . |
| 17 | He had , in fact , long cherished a secret fantasy in which he had joined the privileged ranks of Oxford undergraduates , racketed through three glorious years of academic and sexual triumphs , then gone on to lead the kind of effortlessly successful life from which working-class origins and a foreshortened education had in reality excluded him . |
| 18 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 19 | Sharpe remembered the familiar skill with which he had killed the French Lieutenant in this very rye field . |
| 20 | He scrutinized the documents as if they were a puzzle picture in which he had to spot the deliberate mistakes . |
| 21 | He spent most of August in Worcestershire and September at Aix , which he had discovered the previous summer . |
| 22 | His long episcopate , during which he had reconstructed the Catholic Church in the west of Scotland , ended with his death in Glasgow 27 March 1902 . |
| 23 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 24 | After the closed meeting , military sources reported that Yeltsin had informed them of 90 per cent pay rises which he had ordered the previous week . |
| 25 | He had exhibited work every year since 1847 , and had given about three of a series of lectures on mediaeval architecture to students at the Academy , which he had started the previous year . |
| 26 | MR ASHDOWN blamed his party 's disappointing showing on an 11th-hour migration of voters to the Tories , which he said demonstrated the long-term ‘ unelectability ’ of Labour . |
| 27 | MR ASHDOWN blamed his party 's disappointing showing on an 11th-hour migration of voters to the Tories , which he said demonstrated the long-term ‘ unelectability ’ of Labour . |
| 28 | His grandfather 's picture lay in his grandma 's album , two from the end , showing his grandfather wearing his lordship 's livery , in which he 'd driven the old Baron to the coronation of King George VI in 1937 . |
| 29 | Mr. Beazley also relied on the general statements of principle in paragraphs 9 and 10 of the Peters case [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 quoted above , which he submitted echoed the general principles laid down in the Gubisch case [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 ; these are important principles , to which full weight must be given , but they can not in my judgment warrant the court placing a construction on the words of article 5(1) which they can not reasonably bear , and moreover they must be balanced against another general principle , laid down for example in Kalfelis v. Bankhaus Schrôder , Mûnchmeyer , Hengst and Co . |
| 30 | Dicey was concerned to deal with the " guiding principles " which he considered pervaded the modern constitution of England . |