Example sentences of "which [vb past] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalled the movie Member of the Wedding which he described as ‘ the ONLY adult film I have ever seen which made a serious attempt to analyse the idea of adolescent loneliness being the prelude to alone-ness . ’ |
| 2 | The estimate meant that , if no agreement was reached between congress and the president , $104,800 million would be sequestrated automatically from the 1991 budget , under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction legislation ( the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act ) which provided a statutory obligation to reduce the deficit to $64,000 million by 1991 and to achieve its complete elimination by 1993 . |
| 3 | Police and MPs have strongly criticized an Old Bailey verdict which allowed a teenage vandal to walk free after he 'd admitted stabbing a neighbour to death . |
| 4 | The only exception was NCp7A which showed a reduced ability to form high molecular weight complexes . |
| 5 | When the chairman of the inquiry into the King 's Cross Underground fire made his report he was strongly critical of London Underground 's management ( the two top men quit hours before the report was published ) : ‘ An inward looking approach fostered by the organisation 's narrow horizons undoubtedly led to a dangerous , blinkered self-sufficiency which included a general unwillingness to take advice or accept criticism from outside bodies . ’ |
| 6 | Physical expressions of affection following an obedience which needed a little coercion to achieve , can be most effective . |
| 7 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 8 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 9 | Some rays , which took a longer time to travel , left the white hole earlier ( when it was smaller ) while others , which took less time to travel , would have left the white hole later ( when it was bigger ) . |
| 10 | Edinburgh thus came into line with the rest of Britain , and the trade of compositor became a male monopoly until the Equal Opportunities legislation of the 1970s , which enabled a few women to serve regular apprentice ships as compositors , before the widespread adoption of the new computerized technology convulsed the printing trade , in ways which have been thoroughly discussed by Cynthia Cockburn . |
| 11 | In January 1990 the Congress was considering a government anti-drugs bill which contained a constitutional amendment to allow Ecuadorian nationals accused of drug offences to be extradited . |
| 12 | Nobody has forgotten the rapid descent into currency chaos , rampant inflation and food riots which greeted a short-lived move to decontrol prices and foreign exchanges during the closing stages of the previous government last spring . |
| 13 | Special schools for mentally handicapped children now exist throughout Prior to the 1971 Act , the education of mentally handicapped children was governed by legislation dating from 1944 , which advocated a selective procedure to determine which children were considered educable and which were not . |
| 14 | Similarly , Cambridge English was originally sustained by the achievements of literary modernism which had a new agenda to write . |
| 15 | Amy was picking at the letters of the typewriter which had a persistent tendency to stick . |
| 16 | agreed that finance would be needed to form and run a North American Division , but there was an Australian Division which had a local levy to raise its funds , which might be affected by any new arrangements for North America . |