Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We arrived at the bottom of a rope ladder which seemed to rise to an enormous height up the ship 's side . |
| 2 | Their on-off relationship , which seemed to come to a sudden end two years ago , was re-kindled earlier this year with a romantic holiday to Mauritius . |
| 3 | They saw the military discipline , anti-socialist politics , the threat of confrontation with left-wing elements , and anti-semitic baiting of immigrants and British citizens of Jewish religion , as a source of excitement which gave meaning to a dull existence . |
| 4 | It was an old sofa , but had been a good one in its day , made of soft leather which had worn to a comfortable softness . |
| 5 | In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party . |
| 6 | Poultry had benefited from efficient , low-cost , intensive production systems which had led to a prize competitive product . |
| 7 | The persistent importance of the group , which had led to a strong sense of communal identity since the Tokugawa period , could also produce schism within society . |
| 8 | The legislation followed the 1987 world stock market crash which had led to a controversial four-day closure of the Hong Kong stock exchange and the subsequent arrest of a number of officials on corruption charges [ see pp. 35742 ; 36764 ; and below ] . |
| 9 | The status and function of these courts came into question during one of the most critical of these enquiries , that presided over by Lord Wilberforce in 1972 into the dispute about miners ' pay which had led to a widespread stoppage of work . |
| 10 | A general rise in crime had also been reported since the beginning of the year , following an amnesty which had led to a large number of convicted offenders being released from prison [ see p. 37192 ] . |
| 11 | India 's deteriorating foreign exchange situation had forced the government to adopt drastic import curbs in March [ see p. 38151 ] , which had led to an immediate reduction in the import of manufacturing components and metals . |
| 12 | Producer countries wanted to renegotiate the INRA to increase the minimum defended price for rubber to a level above the average production cost , and to allow more active intervention by INRO 's buffer stock manager to support prices , which had sunk to a five-year low by January 1992 . |
| 13 | Participating were delegations from Armenia , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Russia and Tajikistan — six of the seven states which had agreed to an interparliamentary assembly in April [ see p. 38874 ] ; Uzbekistan sent no delegation . |