Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was still little the West could do to free eastern Europe and peace treaties were made with Romania , Bulgaria and Hungary ( all former allies of Hitler ) in February 1947 which effectively left them at Stalin 's mercy . |
| 2 | Edward Jenner was himself a keen inoculator , but he was impressed by the apparently safer prophylactic effects of the mild natural disease of cowpox ; a zoonosis often caught by milkmaids which apparently protected them from smallpox , as he demonstrated in his paper of 1798 . |
| 3 | The River Otter , Coleridge 's ‘ dear native brook ’ , borders the town to the west , and makes its leisurely way through a landscape which to eighteenth-century inhabitants seemed ‘ the richest finest Country in the world ’ , and which even now preserves the striking beauty which so impressed itself on Coleridge 's young mind . |
| 4 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 5 | The very stability which so commended itself to farmers — any transient compound is less useful in agriculture unless it can be applied directly to the pest — was the factor which so alarmed ecologists . |
| 6 | The Films of Charles and Ray Eames now available from Pyramid Film and Video in Santa Monica , California are sure to move beyond the small audience which already recognised them as masterpieces . |
| 7 | This dimension examined whether or not the firm had a patron which disproportionately supplied it with work . |
| 8 | Its values now those of a specialist activity , design severs the communicative link which formerly bound it to society . |
| 9 | At the party , I was presented with a gold wristwatch in a cobalt-blue presentation case — a wonderfully absurd gesture which nearly had me in tears . |
| 10 | France , for example , which also equipped herself with consuls in India and Malaya ( Singapore , 1839 ; Calcutta , 1846 ; Bombay , 1866 ) established one in Canton , after some earlier unsuccessful attempts , in 1843 and others in Hongkong , Hankow and Tientsin from 1862 . |
| 11 | His decrepitude — the historically stained clothes , that dangle of egg-white slobber from the chin — set off in me a general adolescent anger against life and its inevitable valedictory condition ; a feeling which smoothly translated itself into hatred of the person undergoing that condition . |
| 12 | At the barrier at Gatwick , I was met by a friendly policeman who told me that the injuries were not as bad as had at first been thought , and that none of my family was in danger — news which immediately reduced me to tears . |
| 13 | In the case of Sikh women it was the day-to-day racism which their husbands faced in Britain which indirectly brought them to Britain ; with Pakistanis and Bangladeshis it was the racism of Britain 's Immigration laws . |
| 14 | The two were handcuffed together , taken off the bus and put in the back of the police car which then escorted us into town with lights flashing and siren blaring . |