Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " 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 | Many nationalized industries , which long posed problems for governments , not least in pay negotiations , were floated to the private sector . |
| 3 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The flats are the only relic of the lost Lake Bonneville , which once covered parts of Utah , Nevada and Idaho to a depth of 1,000 feet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Until the mid-nineteenth century , basket-makers were actively cutting willow at Beckley on Otmoor , a place which also sent water-lilies to Covent Garden . |
| 9 | South African Foreign Minister R. F. " Pik " Botha visited Taiwan on March 20-23 as part of an Asian tour which also included visits to Japan , South Korea and Singapore . |
| 10 | The visit was part of a European tour undertaken by Nguyen in late May and early June , which also included visits to Belgium , France , Germany and the Netherlands . |
| 11 | Rice cultivation was more difficult in the dry zone , which also included parts of Hambantota and Badulla districts . |
| 12 | But I can not help wondering whether the dark mood of the ballet was at least partly influenced by Britten 's opera Peter Grimes , which also included episodes of fishermen mending their nets . |
| 13 | An investigation into food and wages paid in food was added , which also involved studies of animal size . |
| 14 | All had been part of the Reagan-Bush administration which illegally sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 15 | In doing so , it follows the pattern set by Guardian Royal Exchange ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 17 ) and Guinness ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 49 ) which both incorporated reviews by auditors Price Waterhouse in their interim reports . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | it helps , without getting directly involved — rather like the Maharajah 's elephant which doubtless saved years of wrangling . |
| 21 | The judge outlined at a London news conference how he will conduct his inquiry which centres on Matrix Churchill , the Coventry-based machine-tool company which allegedly supplied parts for Iraq 's so-called supergun . |