Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It is from some of these 400 that the letters come protesting innocence — and if they often ramble and are poorly expressed , that is indicative of a lack of education which made them vulnerable to manipulation in the first place .
2 However , certain types of women were ‘ selected out ’ by the redundancy process ; they tended to be disadvantaged in human capital terms , which made them vulnerable to poverty ( Callender , 1986b ) .
3 The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others .
4 For some feminists the ‘ problem ’ was the masculine culture of mixed schools , which made them problematic for girls ( Spender and Sarah , 1980 ) .
5 The presence of McCoist , the aerial prowess of McPherson and the reliable defending of McLaren , which made him outstanding against Italy in Scotland 's last match , would all be of assistance in extending Malta 's poor record .
6 But the important quality about Dick Crossman , which made him unique among Members of Parliament and made his testament to the understanding of British Government unique , is that he was the pure , 100 per cent archetypal don , a don through and through , albeit a don whose special subject was politics in practice .
7 but Wimbledon were always going to win it … and Robbie Earle rounded things off with number 4 which made it 5-1 on aggregate
8 The influence of party structures had for long been curtailed by the arrangements for selecting chairmen ; arrangements which made it possible for situations to arise where the president , the Congressional party leadership and a majority of the majority party could all be united on a particular issue yet might be thwarted by the whims of an all-powerful committee chairman .
9 It was marked a vista , which made it payable at sight .
10 Was there something about him which made it impossible for women to stay with him long ?
11 Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate .
12 He added , generously : ‘ You may know that it was the bitter taste which made it unpopular with poisoners of the past even when it was fairly freely available . ’
13 However , as far as Judaism is concerned , there must have been some indication of inherent righteousness within it which made it desirable to people who were not born Jews , and the arrival of a form which seemed to satisfy that inexorable need for a ‘ god ’ , and which was available to all , gave Christianity its initial impetus .
14 Using that famed double standard which made it acceptable for men to indulge in chance conquests , but which castigated women , Vitor would now associate her with casual sex and loose morals .
15 Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres .
16 The data sheets described a wide range of shades of co-operative activity in the planning , developing , or running of programmes , which made it inappropriate at times to define the programmes as either internal or external .
17 Jamie ran up a quadruple-bogey 8 of which cost him thousands of pounds .
18 Opponents of Meciar in Public Against Violence ( PAV , the senior partner in the ruling coalition ) , which he had effectively split in March by forming a separate minority faction [ see p. 38106 ] , had allied with the CDM in arranging a parliamentary investigation into Meciar 's recent conduct , which found him guilty of incompetence , lying , and abusing his access to former secret police files .
19 In July 1815 Hodgskin embarked on a walking tour which took him first to Paris and later to Germany , where he made a detailed study of the political and economic institutions of Hanover .
20 Indeed , it could well have been the death of Archbishop Deusdedit in July 664 which rendered it essential for Oswiu , faced by the resurgence of Mercian power under Wulfhere , to establish his Catholic orthodoxy at Whitby if he was to play a part in finding a replacement for Deusdedit .
21 His successor , Akihito , visited China last year and half apologised for Japan 's wartime behaviour , which brought him closer to matters of state than his predecessors had deemed wise .
22 Frank is a regular at the norwegian U21 team and has also played some first team matches — i remember him giving the pass to Sorloth which gave us 2–1 against Holland at home .
23 The Hampshire player , 20 , had an exciting 65 , four under par , in the morning and then followed with a not quite so devastating 72 , which put him level with Stuart Cage , of Sandmoor , Steve Barwick , of East Berks , and Andy Rogers , of Ealing .
24 Walter Geikie was born on 9th November 1795 in Edinburgh , the eldest son of Archibald Geikie , a pharmacist by occupation but a philosopher by inclination , and when still only two years old , contracted a ‘ brain fever ’ ( probably meningitis ) which left him deaf for life .
  Next page