Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 the DHSS issued the ‘ Care in the Community ’ circular which sought to bring about the transfer of long-stay hospital patients into the community : this would allow the closure of long-stay wards and hospitals . |
| 2 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
| 3 | Schladming , just to the east , which tried to take on the World Cup commitment , has suffered similarly . |
| 4 | The noise echoed over the water which seemed to suck up the sound . |
| 5 | Francis and Richard tend to play slightly ahead of the beat , and although it 's more than likely psychological I always felt that playing fingerstyle meant a sort of delay between playing something and hearing it , which seemed to mess up the impact of the songs . |
| 6 | Instead the women 's movement devised its own strict code of appearance which served to speed up the fragmentation of the fashion scene . |
| 7 | While these various groups which went to make up the hierarchy were mutually interdependent , the basic principle on which society was organized was this formal system of ranking . |
| 8 | But I missed the more dramatic sting inflicted on Gloucestershire 's Mark Davies , by a bee which had gone up the trouser leg and reached the left-arm spinner 's more intimate regions . |
| 9 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 10 | Was Miss Fergusson comparing the earthquake which had thrown down the village of Arghuri to the great Flood itself ? |
| 11 | A former member of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , Sgt. Felix Ndimene , said that he had served in a special forces unit which had carried out the massacre in September 1990 of 26 passengers in a Johannesburg-Soweto train [ see p. 37698 ] , an incident which had provoked weeks of violence in the Johannesburg region between ANC and Inkatha supporters . |
| 12 | The windscreen was splattered with spittle which had dribbled down the glass and dried . |
| 13 | The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory . |
| 14 | He had just returned after a 3-day affair with another woman which had brought on the crisis . |
| 15 | A delegation travelled to Lisbon to present their case ; FLEC-Renewal president José Tiburcio Luemba called on Portugal to revise the agreements which had brought about the independence of Angola in 1975 , and said that his movement would carry on an armed struggle until independence for Cabinda had been achieved . |
| 16 | This plan was given a cautious welcome by the Social Democratic and Labour Party , led by Gerry Fitt , John Hume , and Paddy Devlin , which had taken over the leadership of ‘ constitutional ’ nationalist opinion . |
| 17 | However , the president of the National Reconciliation Commission , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , asserted that " important progress " had been made , which had opened up the prospect of a comprehensive agreement on human rights . |
| 18 | Since it was Dane 's name on the hoardings which had sold out the theatre on opening night and for several weeks to come , Josh 's kindness brought a painful lump to her throat , and she could only gaze at him in mute gratitude . |
| 19 | Joaquín Villalobos , 41 , a senior FMLN commander , made an historic appearance on June 17 before the US House of Representatives commission on hemispheric affairs to help explain the obstacles which had held up the peace process . |