Example sentences of "which [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Militarily stronger by ten to one , Israel made Abdallah agree to an armistice in April 1949 whereby he ceded thirty villages in and near Wadi Ara , in the area which became known inside Israel as the Little Triangle . |
| 2 | A look at this shy and distinctive creature which has lived in Britain for thousands of years and featured in many favourite stories but is rarely seen in its natural habitat . |
| 3 | The improvement could allow some repayment of its long-term debt which has grown from £12.7m in 1986 to almost $69m at the end of last year . |
| 4 | We 've also held a conference of a more general kind on the situation of refugees in the United Kingdom , in which a report was produced , that particularly highlighted the legal situation of the refugees , that had quite an impact among international organizations like United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , which has served as basis for a number of proposals to change the present legal regime of refugees in the UK . |
| 5 | In the light of the serious situation which has arisen in relation to the Maxwell case , will my right hon. Friend take a good look at the pension funds of ABG Research , which is about to be wound up ? |
| 6 | for many years there 's been what 's called the ‘ Rate Equalization Subsidy ’ which has gone from areas of high rateable value to areas of low rateable value such as the middle of Lancashire — central Lancashire , and other parts of the country . |
| 7 | For Crohn 's disease , which has increased in frequency during the past 20–30 years , an additional three classes were defined for dead subjects based on their age and year of death ( table II ) . |
| 8 | In the USA , it notes , there has been a storm of protest over a government decision not to insist on tests and labelling of genetically modified foods , which has led to calls for boycotts of gene foods . |
| 9 | Describing the new music as ‘ a communicable disease ’ and ‘ the music of delinquents ’ , The Daily Mail was so moved as to run a front-page editorial , ‘ Rock'n Roll Babies ’ , which apart from issuing a hollow , reassuring prophecy — ‘ It will pass ’ — stoked up the fires of respectable discontent against ‘ this sudden ‘ musical ’ ’ phenomenon which has led to outbreaks of rowdyism' . |
| 10 | Maladministration is not defined , but it is usually taken to mean administrative action ( or inaction ) which has led to unfairness to a member of the public . |
| 11 | It is , I think , the logical conclusion of the line in Enlightenment thought which has run from Rousseau through Nietzsche and Sartre — the strand of truly anarchic individualist thinking which avoids the vulgar Nozickian ‘ libertarian ’ path of concentrating on the freedom of certain selected institutions such as commercial companies , and genuinely exalts only the freedom of the individual . |
| 12 | ONE railway which has progressed from strength to strength is the ‘ Coal Yard Branch Line ’ at Kidderminster Town Station on the Severn Valley Railway . |
| 13 | Last night , Stephen Eades of Southport-based environmental group Save our Shoreline , which has campaigned for protection of nature amid Hamilton Oil 's exploration , said : ‘ We are concerned that the exploration does not disturb the environment and would rather these advances were in renewable energy sources . ’ |
| 14 | He starts repairing and expanding the ancient network of standing stones which has stood upon Ulthuan since the dawn of time . |
| 15 | His argument was based on personal opinion , feelings and intuition though it does have a loose connection to Carl Gustav Jung 's theory of racial memory , which has fallen into disuse in modern times . |
| 16 | They were asked to outline what their parties aimed to do to boost the average income of farmers , which has fallen by 18pc to the lowest level since the 1939–1945 War . |
| 17 | On the face of it there are more contrasts than resemblances between , for example , the brand of empirical and then linguistic philosophy which has predominated in England in recent decades , the existentialist thought which has led the way in western Europe , and the critical reflection on human history and society on a broadly Marxist basis which has naturally held sway in communist countries , but more recently come more to the fore in the west as well . |
| 18 | President Quett Masire is expected to be nominated again as the presidential candidate of the Botswana Democratic Party , which has ruled since independence in 1966 . |
| 19 | But actually I mean the stretch all-in-one which has metamorphosed from underwear into the essential t-shirt . |
| 20 | Ultimately , the most a firm can do is , so far as practicable , utilise all the techniques outlined above , and hope that the courts will take a commercial view and hold that a firm which has acted in accordance with best practice is protected from liability . |
| 21 | However the settlement leaves open the question whether member States can be found liable under international law for the debts of an organisation which has entered into transactions in its own name . |
| 22 | Nor is the video industry , which has sprung into life in barely a decade , necessarily a sign of semi-literacy . |
| 23 | The preoccupation with providing for widows is one outcome of the high marriage rate for women which has persisted in Britain since World War 11 . |
| 24 | A tourist board which has folded with debts of more than three hundred thousand pounds was warned about its financial predicament nearly eighteen months ago . |
| 25 | If the business has different sections or different sites , you should enquire whether all its employees have been considered for redundancy or whether your particular part of the operation is the only one which has come under scrutiny for cut-backs . |
| 26 | Another analogous body which has come into existence within the last year or so is the National Consultative Committee for Agriculture Education ( NCCAE ) . |
| 27 | The phrase ‘ a different voice ’ , which has come to sere as a popular and psychological shorthand for her conclusions , has important but ambivalent significances for psychology and feminism . |
| 28 | This plant is a hybrid which has evolved over years of cross breeding with the Sinningia speciosa from Brazil . |
| 29 | The main threats to the forecast lie in the outlook for world trade , which has worsened since November as Germany and Japan turn down , the burden of domestic debt continues , and the effects of German policies on the European Community remain adverse . |
| 30 | NASA engineers said last week that the fault , which has lead to leaks of dangerous liquid-hydrogen , will put back Challenger 's first trip into the heavens by several weeks , probably to March . |