Example sentences of "which [vb past] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect , it can be seen that NORP was a poorly planned venture which failed to take account of the poor infrastructure of Bangladesh and the vastness of the problem that it was meant to tackle . |
| 2 | Then he set off the expense of having a debtor arrested in this way , which failed to produce payment of the debt against the sums he recovered . |
| 3 | This has certainly been the view of groups which sought to draw attention to the problems of the long-term unemployed and older workers — notably the Unemployment Alliance in the 1980s and now the Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment ( CAADE ) . |
| 4 | It was no coincidence that the majority of the French delegates were members of the little-known Le Societe Pereire , which sought to recognise Pereire as the first teacher of the deaf in that country — Pereire being a man who practised teaching by the oral method . |
| 5 | CD generally uses the term to embrace Utilitarianism and Malthusianism ( see MALTHUS ) , which sought to discourage marriage among the poorer classes , an attitude lampooned by CD in The Chimes , DS 57 . |
| 6 | Pattern for the side vents of the 1895 coat , which unbuttoned to allow use of the sword belt . |
| 7 | He sees a movement away from a situation where there were extensive kin ties but a lack of really close relationships in the conjugal family , through the emergence of a family based on the patriarchal authority of the father , to a dominant form of family life which began to take shape around the middle of the seventeenth century , and was characterized by close emotional bonds between parents and children and a strong sense of privacy in the nuclear family household . |
| 8 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 9 | Kelly declared himself " disgusted " by Thompson 's intervention , which appeared to confer legitimacy upon the position of Operation Rescue , as did the decision by Dick Thornburgh , the US Attorney General , to support the challenge to Kelly 's authority . |
| 10 | the PLO chair ) and Elias Freij , issued statements which appeared to countenance compliance with the Israeli conditions . |
| 11 | A project now in progress close to Explorers , which hoped to rekindle pride in the old customs , language and traditional knowledge of the native Infierno community , was Ametra 2001 . |