Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 2 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
| 3 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 4 | The cave itself was surprisingly warm and we realised we were walking through a gallery which led us into a lofty underground cavern . |
| 5 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 6 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 7 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 8 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 9 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 10 | Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I 'm going to vomit , ’ she muttered to no one in particular , and sat down with a plop on a new imitation Italian chair , which received her with a reedy groan . |
| 12 | In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis . |
| 13 | Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent . |
| 14 | But on a hummock by the road a starling-sized bird turned round to reveal a brilliant crimson front which identified it as a long-tailed meadowlark , locally called military starling . |
| 15 | Sampras admitted he felt powerless in the face of Ivanisevic 's 13-ace onslaught which consigned him to a 7–6 6–2 defeat . |
| 16 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
| 17 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 18 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 19 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
| 20 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 21 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 22 | It was this radar-like scanning of the night around him , which warned him of a new impending danger . |
| 23 | It was confusing : such self-attention repelled me , and yet it represented a world of sensuality , of smell and touch , of indulgence and feeling , which aroused me like an unexpected caress as I undressed , lit the candles and got into the bath in this room of Eva 's . |
| 24 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
| 25 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 26 | This provoked fierce opposition on the part of the Magistrates ' Association , however , which viewed it as an unwarranted attack on the independence of magistrates , and just five years later the measure was repealed as a result . |
| 27 | A lepidopterist might be able to quote a going price for a preserved chalk-hill blue in good condition , wild rabbits have a price when shot and skinned , but the market price of Twyford Down itself would be low if sold with legal constraints which kept it as an open , public space and high if sold with planning permission for houses or industry ( or even a road ) . |
| 28 | The new committee found an immediate ally in the district societies , which saw it as a potent means of influencing the Institute 's technical effort . |
| 29 | Blackburn has been associated with the New Left Review 's analysis of the Labour Party , which saw it as a Labourist trend in politics with no connection to socialism . |
| 30 | Pouting seductively , she assumed a pose which presented her as a raving sexpot , as she alluringly slipped the flimsy straps of her silk and lace petticoat from her ivory shoulders . |