Example sentences of "which [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists at the University of East Anglia have discovered the cause of ‘ watermark disease ’ , which had threatened to destroy English willow trees . |
| 2 | The largest gathering previously seen was at the 1972 Neo-classical exhibition held at the V&A in London , organised by Mario Praz and Hugh Honour , which had managed to assemble fourteen sculptures . |
| 3 | Mauroy 's departure had been widely expected since the party 's extraordinary congress in December [ see below ] , which had failed to resolve personal rivalries . |
| 4 | In September 1991 the then Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu , introduced the current PKO bill , which limited SDF participation to UN peacekeeping forces , as the successor to the measure which had failed to win legislative approval in 1990 . |
| 5 | The party , which had failed to gain any seats in the June federal and republican elections , had been riven by policy disagreements for some time and was reputedly heavily indebted . |
| 6 | For two years the colony staggered along , with much the same problem as the early English settlements in Virginia which had failed to find any line of activity in the first three or four years that would bring in money . |
| 7 | Since then he had run a foreign policy unit in Moscow , and had helped found the Democratic Reform Movement , which had attempted to unite democratic groups in opposition to the Communist Party [ see p. 38347 ] . |
| 8 | In his previous period in office Kang had initiated a joint venture law which had attempted to encourage Western investment in the North Korean economy . |