Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 2 | Tracking along the trajectories he can establish that the electron which eventually fell onto this spot of the photographic plate was the one he called A whilst the one that collided with the gold atom was the one he had called B. Quantum mechanically ( that is to say , with the electrons of the real world ) this can not be done . |
| 3 | The materials which eventually evolved from this study include a questionnaire devised by the group and which has subsequently been used as a basis for further in-service training sessions in their schools . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu 's obsession with numbers ought to have been satisfied by the overmanning which already existed in Romanian industry which could not really provide productive employment for the existing population . |
| 5 | Above the cave we found an overgrown track which soon emerged onto bare rock and led steeply up to the cliff edge . |
| 6 | She had watched girl friends drift from affair to affair which always began with such certainty that ‘ this time it will be different ’ , and inevitably ended in tears with the realisation that it was n't . |
| 7 | For they devised what Otto Neugebauer has described as ‘ the only intelligent calendar which ever existed in human history ’ . |
| 8 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
| 9 | What is more they appear to have done it , whether in small discussion groups , or the concerts and parties she helped to get under way to celebrate the ending of the war , which also came in that year . |
| 10 | But this is followed by the rather more specialist firms listed in Table 11.8 , Hotel Plan ( under the Inghams and Swan Plan labels ) , and Blue Sky which also specialised in this area . |
| 11 | Indeed , the movement for total abstinence from alcohol , which also flourished at this time in Protestant and puritan countries , illustrates this clearly . |
| 12 | During this time he introduced cast-iron brake blocks of the type which later came into general use . |
| 13 | Over the years he invented many improvements for Watt 's steam engines , including a D-shaped sliding valve which later came into common use for many types of steam engine . |
| 14 | These schemes , which originally ran for one year , have now been extended to two years . |
| 15 | for instance , much emphasis is placed upon fighting between tribes , which supposedly occurred with great frequency until such conflicts were stopped by the Russians . |
| 16 | " Only in the 1840 's and later did the situation begin to improve markedly ; and the class which now emerged into comparative prosperity was not an elite of labour aristocrats but a more homogenous class of factory workers … " ( p.47 ) |
| 17 | The fighting , which often spilled into Thai territory , increased tension between the military authorities in Myanma and Thailand . |
| 18 | Henceforth each successive royal election provoked party conflicts and personal intrigues which often led to civil war , as well as pressure and even forcible intervention from abroad on behalf of competing candidates . |
| 19 | A strange band , they rode a jazzy musical offshoot which often bordered on directionless experimentalism . |
| 20 | The ‘ ghost voice ’ , which often broke into German radio news broadcasts , replaced by trumpet blasts , drowning the announcer 's words . |
| 21 | In a desperately tense tittle battle with John Kocinski , which often overflowed with off-track vitriol , Cardus finally lacked the killer instinct when he needed it most . |
| 22 | The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them . |
| 23 | It was not until the advent of the tank , which simply rolled over barbed wire , that a counter was found to this simple but effective means of halting an attack . |
| 24 | The conditions of service , the harshness of the environment , the atrocious difficulties associated with travel and food supplies , the ravages of scurvy , and the son of men who went out in search of new lands for the tsar , all contributed to the tense atmosphere which sometimes erupted into bloody conflict . |
| 25 | As the band were good enough live , we could build up a ground swell of interest at a local level which then translated into national success . |
| 26 | From this one might interpret ecclesiastical coinage as money originally minted for pious purposes , for alms and perhaps for tithe , which then moved into general circulation in a society in which many different types of coinage were accepted . |
| 27 | Rural society was characterized by the overwhelming predominance of family farms which neither relied upon hired labour nor hired out their own labour . |
| 28 | Many of its contemporaries , such as Coverdale and Swaledale , which never transferred to large-scale factory production , have recently been revived , but Wensleydale is the best known of this group . |
| 29 | During the period under discussion there have been a considerable number of such pressure groups — for example , the Nationwide Festival of Light ; the Order of Christian Unity ; the Responsible Society ; the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , LIFE , as well as a host of other , smaller groups — most of which actually originated in this period . |
| 30 | One of the two pressurized water reactors initially suffered the loss of normal feedwater supply which led to a turbine trip and later to a reactor trip which subsequently resulted in significant damage to portions of the reactor core . |