Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each parade was preceded by a cleaning ritual known as ‘ corvée quartier ’ , which involved clearing up any litter surrounding the barracks . |
| 2 | A company which began serving up hot meals from an industrial unit on the Aycliffe Trading Estate has been taken to task by Sedgefield council . |
| 3 | During the period 1560 to 1640 , virtually all these conformist English Protestants shared a set of common doctrinal beliefs , but in terms both of liturgical preference and intensity of commitment it is possible to divide them into two broad and fluid categories : a mainstream Protestant majority which was relatively content with the hybrid character of the Elizabethan church ; and a minority , labelled ‘ Puritan ’ by their contemporaries , which aspired to bring about further reform of that church in the direction of continental Protestantism . |
| 4 | Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece . |
| 5 | That was the judgment of the scholar Nevill Coghill , Fellow in English Literature and director of the Friends of the Oxford University Dramatic Society , which , in effect , put on the most lavish undergraduate productions — a tradition which had sent out many actors on to the London stage . |
| 6 | The LTTE 's Tamil rivals , the groups which had set up provincial governments under IPKF protection , were destroyed and many thousands fled to Tamil Nadu state in southern India . |
| 7 | A crisis simultaneously erupted in relations with Spain , Cuba 's main Western trading partner , which refused to hand over four men who had sought asylum in the Spanish embassy on July 18 . |