Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 2 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 3 | and the legislation which anchored it to statutory process , had secured a firmer foothold and had begun to flirt uncertainly with wider issues . |
| 4 | So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm . |
| 5 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 6 | After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge . |
| 7 | His Magic Flute for the Welsh National Opera , which introduced him to British audiences in 1979 , avoided the sort of in-jokes that Mozart 's pop entertainment often elicits ( authentically enough , as Schikaneder was a Rowan Atkinson figure ) . |