Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fighting as ‘ Jack Johnson ’ he overcame the barrier known as the ‘ colour line ’ which effectively forbade blacks from boxing whites and wrested the supreme prize under the most dramatic circumstances . |
| 2 | After months of debate the National Assembly on Dec. 17 adopted a new abortion law replacing that in force under communist rule ( and suspended in 1990 ) which effectively allowed abortion on demand . |
| 3 | He was the nephew of King Idriss , who was deposed by the military coup of 1969 which eventually brought Kadhafi to power . |
| 4 | The courtyard design of Linlithgow was completed under his inspiration ; it was this architectural gem of a palace which so impressed Mary of Guise , whose admiration was by no means merely wifely tact . |
| 5 | This was partly due to the fact that I did n't really understand what I was supposed to be doing and partly because I had a very intricate felt-pen and biro decoration to complete on my pencil case ( which obviously took priority over maths work ) . |
| 6 | She concludes that , on balance , the RMCs have done an excellent job and that the most successful ones have been based on colleges or groups of colleges which already had pockets of energy and entrepreneurial spirit and like the South West RMC were closely linked with the communities they served . |
| 7 | A journey which once took weeks by camel lasted half a day in a fast motor such as a Range-Rover , rarely more than four days in the most heavily laden truck . |
| 8 | Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 . |
| 9 | The closure was announced in a statement in Parliament which also revealed changes in store for most of the RAF 's other bases in the region . |
| 10 | An investigation into food and wages paid in food was added , which also involved studies of animal size . |
| 11 | This was the simultaneous introduction of several indissolubly linked institutions : monogamy ( which later gave rise to polyandry and polygamy ) , the nuclear family , private property ( the property of the nuclear family ) , the change in the rule of descent from the female line to the male line , the subordination and humiliation of women , and the State . |
| 12 | For some architects , the removal of regulations which both provided guidelines for behaviour and also limited the areas in which competition existed has provided a stimulus since they now feel able to compete more efficiently in a less restricted arena . |
| 13 | We shall see later in Part II that this decline of manufacturing employment was closely identified with the heavy growth of unemployment in the 1980s , and with its concentration in most industrial towns and cities outside the South East , places which typically had rates of unemployment of 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 14 | During the Giscard Presidency : the news and current affairs coverage satisfied no-one : neither the President , who thought — and said — that the journalists of the state television had been better disposed toward his predecessors ; nor the socialist and communist opposition which periodically ran campaigns in favour of the freedom of news broadcasting . ’ |
| 15 | To that extent the results reflect the basis upon which ASWs made decisions , which frequently involved diversion of GP referrals from compulsory admission . |
| 16 | On the other hand , unlike their predecessors , they were not advocates of single causes , such as temperance or even religious instruction , but instead sought to attract members with a varied programme which consciously mixed recreation with education , welfare , and sometimes church attendance , for a variety of reasons all of which rested on the specificity of youth in relation to age and to class . |
| 17 | One of the main themes of the subject in recent years has been corporatism — which particularly drew attention to group participation . |
| 18 | It is a familiar case of one of the basic contradictions of modern capitalism , in which increasingly socialized forms of production are defined and limited by privately appropriated forms of ownership and control . |
| 19 | it helps , without getting directly involved — rather like the Maharajah 's elephant which doubtless saved years of wrangling . |
| 20 | However , Clark argues that this exception is more apparent than real , arising from methodological procedures which essentially precluded scope for contrast . |