Example sentences of "which [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She pledged to reduce the power of the Interior Ministry and to reform the Defence Ministry — two areas of government in which competences had caused greatest controversy in recent months [ see pp. 38880 ; 38922 ; 38972 ] . |
2 | Minnigrey ( 1851–2 ) , illustrated by ( Sir ) John Gilbert [ q.v. ] , is said to have increased sales of the London Journal to half a million copies , for which newsagents had to send special wagons to the station . |
3 | We should not glamorize the overcrowded , insanitary rural cottages — scarcely adequate as holiday homes for a two-child family now — in which parents tried to raise five children , which were so strikingly condemned in Chadwick 's 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes ( Flinn 1965 ) . |
4 | Nowhere was the stolid exceptionalism of the British more evident than in the rejection of constitutional reform and in the way in which Conservatives sought to portray this reform as the road to chaos — as if the US , Australia , Germany , Spain and other developed democracies had not prospered with more representative systems . |
5 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
6 | The impact of processes in the study of coastal geomorphology was reflected in the content of a major text ( King , 1972 ) and a further text ( Davies , 1973 ) included a map of wave environments of the world , which is one way in which geographers endeavoured to establish spatial variations . |
7 | Behind the famous outcry of the converted Muslim princess in his poem lay a century in which theologians had humanized Christian teaching , and Christian and Muslim had met and mingled on all the frontiers of southern and south-eastern Christendom . |