Example sentences of "which [vb past] [that] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 . |
| 2 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , an attempt by France on April 2 to persuade the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to provide protection for the Kurds , ended in failure after opposition from China , the Soviet Union and the USA , which maintained that it would set a precedent for Security Council involvement in internal controversies . |
| 4 | France , which envisaged that it would lead the new force , had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 [ see p. 21601 ] and had since then pursued an effectively independent line on military issues . |
| 5 | A petition signed by 115 leading personalities , requesting the King to appoint a 1,300-1,500 member National Assembly , drew widespread opposition from the main political parties which claimed that it would drag the monarchy into politics . |
| 6 | A high proportion of pupils gave an answer which showed that they could represent the number to one decimal place : 31 per cent gave the answer 2.3 , seven per cent gave 2.4 and 22 per cent gave 2.3 . |
| 7 | The project has now been cancelled , despite continuing support from local politicians , due both to lack of funds and studies which showed that it would operate at only 25 per cent of capacity in winter , when electricity demand is highest . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've lost weight , ’ she observed in a tone which indicated that she could have expected nothing else of me . |
| 9 | Luz had its passeries or local treaties , signed with the corresponding valleys on the Spanish side of the mountains , which guaranteed that they would continue to trade with one another even at times when the nations they were nominally part of might be at war . |
| 10 | Once it was mooted that there should be a study-period after school , but this was vetoed by the parents ' meeting which protested that it would interfere with after-school sports . |
| 11 | The bill was passed despite fierce opposition from the white commercial farming community which warned that it would transform productive commercial farms into subsistence smallholdings and could turn Zimbabwe from a food exporter to an importer . |
| 12 | First , through the City with a policeman holding up the traffic with an impassive countenance which implied that he would do the same for the Seventh Day Adventists , the Anti-Vivisection Society or the Paddington Communist Party . |
| 13 | In this period , the elderly experienced the tension of being ‘ non-productive ’ in a society which demanded that everyone should work and be productive . |
| 14 | A bankrupt leader of a nation which feared that he would bankrupt it , too . |
| 15 | Reports indicated that US pressure to grant associate membership to the Soviet Union had been opposed by Germany , which feared that it would delay granting the Soviet Union full IMF membership . |
| 16 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 17 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 18 | He was only about Nigel 's age , which meant that he 'd have been a toddler then . |
| 19 | Which meant that he must have been watched … and that made him wonder was he still being watched ? |
| 20 | Which meant that he must have driven to Mariánské Láznë quite soon afterwards . |
| 21 | The move was welcomed by the ANC which said that it would co-operate fully with them . |
| 22 | I decided that anything which said that you could have as much mayonnaise , avocados and nuts as you like and still do yourself good must be worth trying ! |