Example sentences of "which [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 2 | Fireflies were also among aircraft which attacked the Japanese carrier Kaiyo on July 24 , leaving her ablaze with a broken back . |
| 3 | In other words , not for the first time , it was the estate policies pursued by a particular landowner which produced the northern village plans . |
| 4 | One day he excelled himself , turning up with a piece of furniture the size of a large sideboard which housed the coveted television set along with a radiogram and a place to keep your records . |
| 5 | It was an easy promise to make , since Stevenson 's had the contract to extend the New Treasury Building , which housed the chaotic Railway Office , which , in turn , was a division of the Board of Trade . |
| 6 | They set off , soon reaching their destination , a small village accessible by one unfinished road , located near the complex which housed the Nazi research team . |
| 7 | When the Boards were abolished in 1902 , the Women 's Local Government Society fought to have women elected to the County and Borough Councils , which became the new Local Education Authorities ( LEAs ) . |
| 8 | Wills , which became the Imperial Tobacco Company , were descended from Anthony Wills who was born c. 1510 and owned property in Cornwall . |
| 9 | Krase , who was sacked by the Defence Ministry in 1984 for incompetence over the affair and died in 1988 , had prepared the MAD reports which led the then Defence Minister Manfred Wörner to dismiss Kiessling . |
| 10 | Robyn watched from the shelter of the long cream curtains which shrouded the vast downstairs window , her finger curled thankfully around the mug of hot , hot coffee . |
| 11 | The development of motor transport ( which expanded the economic distribution areas ) . |
| 12 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 13 | In November 19X1 the Bank of England defined a new monetary sector which amalgamated the old banking sector with a number of other related institutions . |
| 14 | Although Libyans recognized that many members of tribes were ‘ written ’ , or attached in other ways , the central notion was that the loyalties and obligations which made the stateless system work were part of a person 's equipment at birth . |
| 15 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 16 | Key recommendations included ( i ) the establishment of an expanded National Peace Committee ( NPC ) with permanent local and regional offices which would replace dispute resolution committees ; ( ii ) the stationing of 30 UN observers who would serve with the NPC and would draw on the experience of the UN team which monitored the mass action campaign ; ( iii ) the provision of UN assistance to the Goldstone Commission for full-scale inquiries into the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , the South African Police ( SAP ) and the Kwazulu Police as well as the armed wing of the ANC , Umkhonto we Sizwe , and its Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) and Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) equivalents ; the Commission 's findings , hitherto presented to the government , would be released to the multiparty NPC ; ( iv ) UN reassessment of its role every three months ; ( v ) the resumption of constitutional negotiations as soon as possible with the establishment of a " deadlock-breaking " mechanism ; ( v ) the appointment of " an eminent and impartial person " to convene the talks ; ( vi ) the urgent release of political prisoners ; and ( vii ) an end to the bias of the state broadcasting services . |
| 17 | In July of that year he followed the Toolmakers ' Society into the merger which created the Amalgamated Engineering Union and in the same month became a founder-member of the Communist party of Great Britain , in which the BSP was absorbed . |
| 18 | He appealed on the ground that the prosecution on the second indictment contravened section 20(8) of the Constitution of Jamaica , which embodied the common law doctrine of autrefois convict . |
| 19 | She crossed to one of the racks which lined the watered silk walls , her feet sinking into the deep cream carpet , and took out a black gown , holding it against her . |
| 20 | Monopolistic employers ' associations , combined enterprises , and the penetration of banking capital into industry created a new model of production relations , which transformed the unorganised commodity capitalist system into a finance capitalist organisation . |
| 21 | I have seen one production which used the 1603 quarto version , one which used the uncut Folio text , but the majority were ‘ constructed ’ texts , omitting different passages and scenes from what is a very long play . |
| 22 | Three Fokker Dr.I replicas made for a fascinating sight , added to which came the Great War Combat Team and a decidedly real SE.5A . |
| 23 | Following our report in the September issue on the accident which befell the British Makrong Chhish Expedition , this year 's Nick Escourt Award winner , we have received further information from Geoff Tyson , father of David Tyson — one of the climbers who died . |
| 24 | As work continued to seal the reactor ( whose current condition was the subject of some alarming reports , despite the original claim that it had been " entombed " successfully in concrete by November 1986 — see p. 34749 ) , the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet passed a series of laws in early April which reduced the permissible radiation level , and , as a result , would lead to the evacuation of a further 73,000 people from the Chernobyl area , bringing the total moved since the accident to 250,000 . |
| 25 | As he is a victim of his own loyalty to the England cause , the RFU 's credibility can only be maintained if he is compensated — even if this means contradicting the edict of the 1890's which caused the original rugby league to break from the union code . |
| 26 | Piatakov , a Ukrainian , now argued that , following Lenin 's April theses , prepared on his return to Russia , which rejected the existing party policy of supporting the provisional government and set the Party on the road to the seizure of power , socialism was on the immediate agenda , not the establishment of a bourgeois republic . |
| 27 | In outlining its attitude towards ‘ the Jewish Question ’ , Vanguard seemed prima facie to be taking a stance which rejected the whole conspiracy theory of politics . |
| 28 | Upon his return from Paris Le Duc Tho travelled secretly to South Vietnam to direct the final military assault ( the " Ho Chi Minh Campaign " ) on Saigon which toppled the US-backed Thieu regime in 1975 . |
| 29 | Here in the basement and behind Mr Pegg was Bill Joyner and his wrapping counter , beyond which roared the mighty Goss Printing Press which poured out 300 copies of the 16-page daily every minute . |
| 30 | In retrospect , it was not ideal for the Promenade and Fleetwood route , with its more resilient sleeper track and the blowing sand , which affected the roof-mounted control unit . |