Example sentences of "which they [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Cromwell Road the students made use of the first floor which had a magnificent music room and a ballroom which they loaned to the Senior Common Room for the purposes of the annual Royal College Charity Ball which rivalled the Chelsea Arts Ball . |
| 2 | In the western provinces , where the Christian population was overwhelmingly Catholic or in communion with Rome , peasants were refusing to fulfil the economic obligations which they owed to the Orthodox clergy . |
| 3 | Labour and the Liberal Democrats are united in supporting the scheme for devolution which they developed in the Scottish Constitutional Convention . |
| 4 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 5 | Again , few long-standing customers will surely want to compromise their future bargaining position by revealing to the court the true weight which they gave to the various considerations before them prior to the placing of interim contracts with the employer . |
| 6 | Labour members , though generally more committed to old-age pensions , free school meals and redistributive taxation than Liberals and considerably more so than Conservatives , gave greater primacy in their election addresses to unemployment and hours of work , which they regarded as the major social issues . |
| 7 | Indeed , the mechanical clocks which they presented to the Chinese rulers were received with surprised delight . |
| 8 | The only redeeming feature was that he and Shan Hackett had lunch in Monty 's personal mess and ran up a goodly drinks bill which they charged to the teetotal general . |
| 9 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 10 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 11 | To the best of my knowledge there are at least three editions of Pater Creator Omnium in circulation ; Cappella Nova here sing Dr. Elliott 's , as they have all the other works in the series ( save , curiously , for the 10-Part Mass , which they recorded in the fine edition of Muriel Brown ) . |
| 12 | ( This should not be taken to mean that such psychopathological trends could not appear in individuals before the coming of cultivation or delayed-return hunter-gathering , merely that they would have been much less common and could not have taken on the collective , cultural significance which they did in the Neolithic and subsequent epochs . ) |