Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Anthony Atkinson , of Scarisbrick Drive , Norris Green , was hit by a van which failed to stop on the East Lancs Road at Norris Green .
2 And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church .
3 Other influential evidence was provided by Phillips ( 1958 ) who showed that for the UK for almost 100 years before the late 1950s there appeared to exist a stable relationship — which became known as the Phillips curve — between a real variable , unemployment , and the rate of change of a nominal variable , nominal wages .
4 However , the Front was increasingly built up and reinforced by the North via the route which became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail .
5 Alexander Dubcek , the Communist Party leader during the reform movement in 1968 which became known as the Prague Spring , died on Nov. 7 from serious internal injuries sustained in a car accident in September .
6 Traditionally , the Aquino presidency has also been supported by those elements of the PDP-Laban Party ( Aquilino Pimentel ch. ) which chose to remain outside the LDP ; and the bulk of the Liberal Party ( established in 1946 , but split in 1988 when supporters of Kalaw joined the GAD — see below — Jose ( Jovito ) Salonga l . ) .
7 Commentators also made the point that while the Bonn meeting referred to East-West co-operation , effective agreements and trade treaties came within the sphere of activity of the European Communities , which preferred to negotiate with the East European countries individually .
8 The Yasukuni shrine issue had sparked fierce controversy in 1985 when Yasuhiro Nakasone became the first post-war Prime Minister to make an official visit [ see p. 34559 ] , an action which drew fierce criticism from neighbouring countries which had suffered during the Pacific War .
9 On Dec. 3 Valentin Kuptsev , leader of the RCP until the ban , called for the parties which had emerged from the CPSU to prepare a revival of the party .
10 W. T. Stead described himself as ‘ a child of the revival of 1859–60 ’ which had swept across the Atlantic and won hundreds of thousands of converts ( over a hundred thousand in Ulster alone ) .
11 The BDA , which had co-operated with the BBC in making it , answered more than four thousand enquiries for information following the broadcast .
12 ‘ My lord , your question must be asked of the citizens of this realm , ’ he told Buckingham , indicating the noisy crowd which had gathered outside the Guildhall .
13 The government and five leading banks agreed on March 18 to cut interest rates by an average of 3 percentage points in an effort to hold down the exchange rate for the sol which had strengthened against the US dollar from the beginning of 1992 .
14 Wild built the tower for the Manchester , Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway , which had merged with the Grimsby Docks Company and brought the railway here in 1848 .
15 Finally , there remained differences of approach between the various forces which had contributed to the Shah 's downfall .
16 The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography .
17 Bao Tong , a senior aide of deposed Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) general secretary Zhao Ziyang , was tried and sentenced on July 21 for his role in the pro-democracy movement which had culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] .
18 On Oct. 25-27 the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC — which had split from the ANC in 1959 — see p. 17449 ) , acted together for the first time since 1960 to become part of the Patriotic Front , an initiative launched to create a united front in negotiations with the Pretoria government .
19 By creating a Viceroyalty , the tsar went beyond the policy of devolution which had operated in the Caucasus under Ermolov .
20 Recalling Resolution 43/120 ( adopted at the 43rd session — see p. 36780 ) which had led to the December 1988 adoption of the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs in Vienna , the Assembly approved Resolution 44/140 .
21 Afterwards we all said that it was good for the game that the transplant of power which had begun at the Sydney Football Stadium in our bi-centennial year had taken so robustly .
22 In fact Ruth thought , his features were very like those of a man in the reproduction of an Italian painting which had hung in the Longhills ’ drawing room .
23 It was also hoped that there would be a general improvement in Anglo-Iraqi relations , which had deteriorated following the UK 's efforts to thwart Iraq 's acquisition of advanced missile and nuclear technology [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ] .
24 Military equipment which had belonged to the East German army had been supplied to Turkey during the Gulf war in 1991 on condition that it was only used to defend the borders of Turkey or other NATO member-states .
25 Heads of state and government of the 12 member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) met in Luxembourg on June 28-29 to take stock of progress in the negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and European political union ( EPU ) which had opened at the Rome summit in December 1990 [ see pp. 37905-06 ] .
26 Next morning the gale frustrated attempts to use fireships against those which had got into the Vilaine but , in attempting to evade its pursuers , the Soleil Royal was forced on to an offshore shoal and burned by her own crew .
27 Opposition parties , which refused to participate after the FMLN and the Permanent Committee for National Debate ( CPDN ) were prevented by riot police from joining the demonstration , described it as an attempt to prolong the war .
28 In 1934 he joined the Confessing Church , the wing of the national ( Lutheran ) Church which refused to compromise with the Hitler government .
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