Example sentences of "which [verb] [pron] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her ambition to be a painter was thwarted by acute shortness of sight which made her turn to gardening , ‘ making pictures with living plants ’ to use her own words ; and she became famous for the gardens she created and the books she wrote . |
| 2 | The ease with which he passes from provincial gaucheries to suave Franco-Italianate portraiture , which made him painter to King George III , is fully recorded . |
| 3 | Most of his paintings were elaborate , detailed , large-scale affairs , some of which found their way to city municipalities in Canada and Australia . |
| 4 | Najibullah had headed the Kabul regime since 1986 , when , as Security Chief , he replaced Babrak Karmal as leader of the ruling communist party , the People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( which changed its name to Hezb-e Watan in 1990 ) . |
| 5 | It pointed out that it is bound by a constitution which limits its work to prisoners of conscience and the abolition of torture and the death penalty . |
| 6 | Finally when Edmund marries Fanny , semblance is the main aspect which leads their marriage to happiness . |
| 7 | Then finally , in the case of officers , employees , and others in a professional or business relationship , they must be in a position which affords them access to information which they ought not reasonably to disclose , save for the proper performance of their duties . |
| 8 | By 1902 Hardy was working on a project which owed its inspiration to boyhood memories of local stories and traditions of Napoleonic times , but had first presented itself as a literary theme in about 1875 . |
| 9 | But these identifiable elements were blended into a new pattern , which owed its existence to Gloucester himself . |
| 10 | But these identifiable elements were blended into a new pattern , which owed its existence to Gloucester himself . |
| 11 | The Jack Berry-trained sprinter is unbeaten in five visits to Town Moor and this success earned him a 7lb penalty for the Ayr Gold Cup which takes his weight to 8st 12lbs . |
| 12 | This time , Manville severely underestimated the speed of the positive reaction which followed his approach to NASA . |
| 13 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 14 | Yet when he reverts to the business of his night-watch , which included his challenge to Williams , and Pistol 's to Fluellen , he descends to their level in prose ( 120–67 ) . |
| 15 | The years of dishonesty and drunkenness which preceded my trip to Boulogne had erased any feeling of homesickness , and by November 1984 , I could write them a composed , controlled letter from a Legion barrack room without any problem . |
| 16 | Three years later , Nicholson suffered an attack of typhoid which prompted his return to London . |
| 17 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 18 | The walls are lined with paintings depicting the Pharaoh engaged in the rituals which facilitated his passage to resurrection . |
| 19 | Machines we are not , but perhaps after all there are hidden ‘ pre-programmed ’ factors within us which are also part of the story , which affect our response to conflict . |
| 20 | There are many factors which affect our vulnerability to heart disease . |
| 21 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |
| 22 | Marking European Heritage Days on Saturday and Sunday , the abbey , which gives its name to Grey Abbey , is throwing its doors open to visitors . |
| 23 | In these his differences with his parliaments were reviewed , and each was followed by a prayer which justified his conduct to God . |
| 24 | This is the issue which occupies Anne Phillips , Sylvia Walby and Michèle Barrett in particular , with a certain consensus that , after all , we must hold out for a version of modernism ( against post-modernism ) , and what Phillips calls a ‘ middle route ’ which retains its aspiration to universalism . |