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

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1 The blast , which registered 5.4 on the Richter scale , caused ripples in highrise buildings in Las Vegas , 105 miles away .
2 The deaths occurred in the city of Newcastle , New South Wales , three miles west of the epicentre of the earthquake , which registered 5.5 on the Richter scale .
3 The circumstance which offended most of the Yek who heard of it was not the attempt on Alexei 's life , but rather the means which had been employed .
4 Locoscript , it was called , the word processing programme which came free with the Amstrad .
5 Three hours later , at 8.05 , there was a second earthquake centred upon Big Bear Lake , some 30 km west of the first epicentre , which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale .
6 The earthquake , which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale , struck early on Saturday .
7 Buildings in Darwin shook but the centre of the tremor , which measured 7.3 on the Richter scale , was hundreds of miles out to sea .
8 The election result , which reversed that of the December 1986 election when the PNM won only three seats to the NAR 's 33 [ see pp. 35194-95 ] , represented an emphatic rejection of Robinson 's handling of an economy heavily dependent on oil exports .
9 The survey , which covered 93 of the UK 's top 500 companies and 21 financial services groups , was carried out for accountants Ernst & Young last month because of concern about level of understanding among business leaders of the issues involved in ERM membership .
10 This generated CO2 which migrated up-dip into the Stinkdolomit and caused leaching of dolomites at the foot of the mud wedge ( Fig. 20 ) .
11 There is a narrow inset in the façade of the building , marking where the fire which destroyed half of the Malá Strana and the castle started in 1541 .
12 Dos Santos on Oct. 10 cancelled a visit to the USA , where he was to attend the UN General Assembly , having failed to obtain high-level meetings with US politicians , and in protest at " hostile US policy " towards his government ( which remained unrecognized by the USA ) .
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