Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 2 | So , Fearnley was under continuous threat from the two or three agencies which operated on an international basis , and especially from the most powerful , Mike Martinez . |
| 3 | Val had said ) which operated from the British Museum , to which Ash 's wife , Ellen , had given many of the manuscripts of his poems , when he died . |
| 4 | The Somali Patriotic Movement , which operated in the southern Ogaden , in November 1989 agreed to co-operate with the SNM . |
| 5 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 6 | A notably successful example of a glass shot ( see page 44 ) appears in the Powell/Pressburger version of Rumer Godden 's 1938 novel , Black Narcissus ( 1947 ) , which centred on a small group of nuns in the Indian Himalayas . |
| 7 | The dispute between , on the one side , the News International newspapers ( Sun and News of the World ) , the Times Group ( The Times and The Sunday Times ) and others , and , on the other side , the unions ( SOGAT 82 , the NGA and others ) which centred on the new site at Wapping , followed the breakdown of negotiations and the dismissal of all those on strike . |
| 8 | Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres visited Japan on Dec. 14-17 , for talks which centred on the Middle East peace process . |
| 9 | It was a picture — a picture of a pearl necklace that my mother used to have , which lived inside the little drawer on her dressing-table , in its own special case lined with black velvet . |
| 10 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 11 | Courier beat Stefan Edberg in the final , which failed by a large margin to live up to it 's billing . |
| 12 | I shall return to this point later , but must first record how matters went in the Divisional Court , omitting for present purposes any reference to an alternative ground of relief concerning the Director 's refusal to wait whilst the applicant pursued his application for legal aid , which failed in the Divisional Court and was not renewed on appeal . |
| 13 | The skeletal trees that grew close to the chapel rattled their branches in the wind , which whipped across the open ground . |
| 14 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 15 | England had been one of the first countries to adopt Gothic designs but was one of the last to relinquish the style which passed into a Perpendicular phase unique to the British Isles . |
| 16 | Next morning the whole town and bay were shrouded in mist which condensed on every cold surface . |
| 17 | The leading element in this upheaval was the student movement , and although students became independently active in political life all over the world — in Eastern Europe and in the Third World just as much as in the West — the principal expression of a distinctive radical doctrine and mode of political action , which became to a large extent a model for the whole international movement , was to be found in the US , in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) . |
| 18 | It was held that an offence under that section had been committed where the accumulation emitted offensive odours which interfered with the personal comfort of persons living in the neighbourhood , but did not cause injury to health . |
| 19 | The provision of permanent waters led everywhere to overgrazing and consequent soil erosion , and veterinary quarantine regulations which interfered with the free movement of cattle both within and into and out of the reserves almost certainly contributed to the spread of tsetse fly which occurred during the colonial period . |
| 20 | The most fundamental need was to increase the area of water by the provision and enlargement of wet-docks and basins , the total acreage of which doubled over the last quarter of the eighteenth century as a prelude to a much greater expansion between 1800 and 1830 . |
| 21 | He had the choice of half-a-dozen alleys which led off the main street and climbed to the terraces . |
| 22 | The new trial was reopened before the Juzgado Quinto de Primera Instancia Penal de Sentencia ( Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance ) , and new evidence admitted which led to a guilty verdict . |
| 23 | Apart from the agitation over conditions and pay in the mid-1960s which led to a new contract and the " renaissance of general practice " the profession was virtually untouched by governments of either party , although the escalating demands on the hospital service which successive governments tried to grapple with were largely GP-induced . |
| 24 | The Pier Head incident proved to be the turning point which led to a new period of industrial peace within the giant Vehicle Division , unfortunately too late to avoid the massive investment switch to the Continent which was already under way with the newly approved corporate plan . |
| 25 | Since her trial a year ago , which led to a six-year jail sentence , Winnie Mandela has been at liberty on bail , pending an appeal . |
| 26 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 27 | However , internal feuds and a breakdown of discipline within the ranks of the Communist Party of the Philippines-Marxist Leninist ( CPP-ML ) , which led to a bloody purge of its supporters , seriously affected morale . |
| 28 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 29 | In the early years of the euro-dollar market 's growth , the USA incurred an increasing external deficit which led to a considerable accumulation of dollar claims ( deposits ) by non-US residents . |
| 30 | From then on he administered Penang with great skill and energy , which led to a considerable growth in population and trade . |