Example sentences of "which [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darley Anderson has sold television rights to Martina Cole 's bestselling Dangerous Lady ( which Headline bought in a two-book deal for £150,000 ) . |
| 2 | This was the cause of his deafness , which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's OUR H-Bomb ! ’ screamed the Daily Express headline after the British test at Christmas Island , which put paid to the still lively hope that the nuclear club would not extend beyond the two super-powers . |
| 4 | Although mature horses may harbour a few adult worms , heavy burdens are usually confined to yearlings and to foals , which become infected from the first month or so of life , and infection is maintained largely by seasonal transmission between these groups of young animals . |
| 5 | Text entry is not quite so simple and a little and time consuming , but it does allow for individual pieces of text to be attached to specific notes and symbols which stay attached to the correct notes even when you have edited a piece extensively . |
| 6 | Pundits are unanimous that recovery has arrived , but the string of statistics which have pointed to a vigorous upturn in the early part of the year have been greeted with caution . |
| 7 | The last section identified some of the processes which have contributed to the overall shift in the geography of manufacturing . |
| 8 | Business failures , which have rocketed to a staggering 76 a day , should also decline . |
| 9 | The demographic developments which have led to an ageing population in Britain are characteristic of all developed nations , with a trend towards lower birth rates and reduced mortality at all ages . |
| 10 | Everything has obviously been well prepared both technically and musically ( not the remotest suspicion of a studio run-through ) , and the orchestra sound really fired up , which is more than one can say about a disturbingly large number of recordings which have emerged over the last few years ! |
| 11 | Now that we have a little experience in the joys of simple kite flying , it 's time to look deeper into the whole subject and to understand more about those ‘ Modern Materials ’ which have emerged since the 1970s . |
| 12 | Before turning to the attempts to revitalize science teaching which have emerged since the early 1960s , it is important to ask the question ‘ Why did school science emerge in the way it did ? ’ |
| 13 | In these units , themes which have emerged throughout the first two years receive a more considered and advanced analysis : Theories of Society , Political Ideals , Women , and the Ethics of Individual Responsibility . |
| 14 | Social differentials in fertility which have emerged in the last century have powerful implications for population growth , social welfare , and political power . |
| 15 | Nor can it cope with the more general interdisciplinary and modular patterns which have emerged in the last two decades ; and it is university-biased in its assumption that the basic academic unit is the subject-department , whereas composite departments offering broader programmes of study are common in the polytechnics and colleges . |
| 16 | Whatever else , it is clear that a modernist representation would not accurately capture the organizational patterns of contemporary Japanese organization , which have served in the 1980s as if they were a very beacon of postmodernity , given the role that various representations of them have played in recent debates . |
| 17 | Unfortunately for the interesting diversity of the old breeds , the Scandinavian nations have in recent years developed official breeding policies designed to create uniform national breeds by amalgamation , with the result that other breeds have largely been replaced and are now almost extinct , often making way for most untypical horned , pied breeds which have relied to a greater or lesser extent on imported Ayrshires and Friesians . |
| 18 | The world 's population tops five billion.The prices of the commodities exported by Third World countries , which have declined throughout the 1980s , reach their lowest level of the decade , at around 65 per cent of their average value in the 1970s . |
| 19 | The historian-punter would be sitting in bonds ( which have rallied in the past few months ) waiting patiently to switch back to equities , starting cautiously in the middle of this year , and so to ride the bull market of the mid-1990s . |
| 20 | A cross-section of definitions , which have appeared over the past twenty years or so , is as follows . |
| 21 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 22 | My destinations have all been identified by linguists , in papers which have appeared in the last five years or so , as well worth a visit , and in each case I have found the excursion worthwhile . |
| 23 | Those familiar with electron microscope pictures , a number of which have appeared in the popular press , will recall that apparently smooth surfaces reveal to the microscope scenes reminiscent of a lunar landscape with steep cliffs , peaks and ravines . |
| 24 | The villages which can claim a degree of undisturbed continuity beyond this are not usually agricultural villages at all , but medieval textile ‘ towns ’ which have reverted to an agricultural status following the transfer of textile production to the industrial North during the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | As far as quality assurance is concerned , the new paper describes how mechanisms have evolved to meet the various demands which have arisen over the last five years — such as the National Certificate , the new Advanced Courses and , most recently , Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 26 | Since their work covered such a vast range of subjects , it is necessary to limit the discussion to topics which have arisen within the traditional limits of anthropology , and to leave to other studies an examination of Marx 's and Engels 's views of such periods as feudalism or ancient Greece and Rome , since these fall more under the orbit of historical studies . |
| 27 | Often people become accustomed to odours especially those arising from works which have operated in a particular vicinity for a long time . |
| 28 | There are some striking parallels between the show trials of New York which have stemmed from the Boesky confessions and the Guinness case . |
| 29 | The final separation may mean an agony of divided loyalty for the children of the marriage or it may spell relief from intolerable tensions which have developed over a long period . |
| 30 | Rising costs , a more sophisticated travelling public and much greater competition from numerous holiday attractions , which have developed within the last 10 years , have made it virtually impossible to run two commercial railways in such close proximity . |