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 | 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 . |
3 | Above the cave we found an overgrown track which soon emerged onto bare rock and led steeply up to the cliff edge . |
4 | For they devised what Otto Neugebauer has described as ‘ the only intelligent calendar which ever existed in human history ’ . |
5 | During this time he introduced cast-iron brake blocks of the type which later came into general use . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | for instance , much emphasis is placed upon fighting between tribes , which supposedly occurred with great frequency until such conflicts were stopped by the Russians . |
8 | " 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 ) |
9 | The fighting , which often spilled into Thai territory , increased tension between the military authorities in Myanma and Thailand . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | A strange band , they rode a jazzy musical offshoot which often bordered on directionless experimentalism . |
12 | The ‘ ghost voice ’ , which often broke into German radio news broadcasts , replaced by trumpet blasts , drowning the announcer 's words . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Rural society was characterized by the overwhelming predominance of family farms which neither relied upon hired labour nor hired out their own labour . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race . |