Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 2 | In 1976 Britain , or more strictly England and Wales , introduced legislation which sought to control the worst excesses of the press and the courts in relation to rape . |
| 3 | A hopeful and insufficiently applauded shift in emphasis was signalled in 1986 by the Report of the Attorney General 's Commission on Pornography , which sought to identify the relative harms caused by various forms of pornography , thus making it possible to draw up a list of priorities . |
| 4 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 5 | This is one of the photographs which helped to form the earliest conceptions of the medium . |
| 6 | A food co-op which tried to replace the burned-out shops has been closed after several break-ins , and even the drop-in centre is burgled weekly , according to project worker Sheila Auld . |
| 7 | For all the pioneer ideology of frontier self-sufficiency which came to surround the early Americans , increasing in both numbers and wealth , they provided a market for consumer goods by 1740 which was not unlike that which had emerged in England itself . |
| 8 | More significantly , perhaps , he revealed to Edward that there was much opposition in Normandy to the fiscal oppression of the Valois administration and the centralizing policies which seemed to threaten the provincial liberties of the duchy . |
| 9 | When , in 1916 , pacifist thinkers cast around for an alternative power which claimed to represent the universal interests of mankind , their eyes turned to the United States . |
| 10 | On the same day US Secretary of State James Baker was visiting Syria [ see p. 37727 ] , a coincidence which served to highlight the shifting alignments in the Middle East in the aftermath of Iraq 's recent invasion of Kuwait . |
| 11 | Lonsdale also includes Blamire 's enchanting epistle , written to friends and describing a day which included doctoring the local children with her own medicines . |
| 12 | A week before the children arrived , it was a tense group of host families which gathered to make the final preparations . |
| 13 | The church was finished in 1845 , with fittings which aimed to reproduce the mediaeval prototypes as authentically as possible . |
| 14 | Despite the increasing difficulties which Edward faced in financing his wars in Scotland , the parliaments of these years are free of the political and constitutional arguments which had characterized the last years of Edward I 's reign . |
| 15 | However , the massive exports which had generated the necessary finances had been one of the main causes of the extreme economic hardship suffered by ordinary Romanians . |
| 16 | On Feb. 10 , 15 of the 23 parties which had contested the municipal elections had said that they would not participate in the legislative elections . |
| 17 | As a programme of state medicine it was quite as significant as that which had shaped the environmental reforms seventy years before . |
| 18 | He had rejoiced in its glossy purplish midsummer beauty which had sheltered the gentle ring-doves that cooed among its branches . |
| 19 | The Greeks did not react — or rather did not go beyond the surface of Roman life — until they found themselves faced with a first-class power which had defeated the Greek armies of Pyrrhus on the open field . |
| 20 | Cardinal Montini , in one of his weekly newsletters for his diocese , directly blamed the slowness of the Council on the curia which had prevented the various commissions co-operating during the preparatory period . |
| 21 | Through this device the first German republic sought to preserve the role of the so-called ‘ free ’ welfare associations , foremost the established churches , which had become the key providers of welfare services ( Sachsse , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 23 | In the following year , a one-mile route from Talbot Square to Layton Cemetery was opened on June 19th 1902 , putting an end to the horse buses which had served the inland routes since being banned from the Promenade in 1899 . |
| 24 | However , disagreements appeared less motivated by ideological differences than by issues of personality and style ( unlike the factionalism which had bedeviled the early days of the administration of Corazon Aquino , his presidential predecessor ) . |
| 25 | The old dictum ‘ might is right ’ which had typified the early years of the second millennium , was transformed to ‘ might for right ’ . |
| 26 | But this layout seemingly only lasted a comparatively short time , before it too was swept away , together with the buildings which had survived the previous changes and the fort defences . |
| 27 | The solution of silica which had saturated the dead organisms and solidified into chert was clearly as fine-grained and durable a preservative as exists . |
| 28 | Tapie withdrew his legal action against the European Football Union ( UEFA ) , ending a crisis which had rocked the international authorities . |
| 29 | Following the end of the boom in 1988 , prices fell fastest in regions which had shown the highest increases previously . |
| 30 | The battles between Fascists and the Left which began in 1934 looked superficially like those which had marked the last years of the Weimar republic . |