Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-four black militant organisations were subjected to ‘ tax surveillance ’ as part of International Revenue Service ( IRS ) harassment , and FBI agents placed bogus documents into the hands of Panther members which led them to suspect each other of being police informants ( McAdam and Moore , 1989:281 ) . |
| 2 | It was that — that sense of unpreparedness — which made him feel restless standing there ; made him turn and pace the room impatiently . |
| 3 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
| 4 | Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 5 | In an added postscript , Mr Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 6 | As I opened the case I heard a groaning , splintering noise , which caused me to experience extreme pain as the bridge flew off and whacked me on the side of the head ! |
| 7 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 8 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 9 | Ms Leaming tells it all with vim , though the gossip turns her on far more than the movies : ‘ Aly practised an Eastern art of love known as Imsak , which allowed him to exercise indefinite control … ’ |
| 10 | In one artist 's statement , he remarked : Whilst the Lefevre exhibition established him as urban romantic with a particular feeling for Thames-side subjects , a number of commissions followed which allowed him to develop this vein . |
| 11 | If one may suspend conscience , and forget the conditions and costs of labour which allowed them to create this wealth , then these streets — as they do in London and Edinburgh , and still to be seen in Dublin — define the comfort of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century middle classes . |
| 12 | It was the emergence of the Chinese Lesbian Group which allowed me to start this process of healing and accepting myself . |
| 13 | In September 1715 , immediately after the death of Louis XIV , the Parlement of Paris had restored to it by the Regent , the Duc d'Orléans , the right of remonstrance which allowed it to impede royal legislation . |
| 14 | The food and drinks offered by the hosts were , I thought , just about right , and very reasonable in price , which encouraged us to use this service , despite the service station stops . |
| 15 | The concert and the reception which followed it generated considerable interest in , as well as funds for , the Alumni Foundation . |
| 16 | The December 1989 coup attempt and the abortive revolts which followed it damaged international investor confidence in the Philippines . |
| 17 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 18 | Mr Hook pointed out many of the Division One sides were concentrated round the south-east , which meant they had less travelling expenses . |
| 19 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 20 | Sheer mental power was the ability which Coleridge possessed which enabled him to accomplish this feat , as he does in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , when , sitting in his cottage he takes in the ‘ Sea , hill , and wood This populous village ! … with all the numberless goings on of life . ’ |
| 21 | With a career as an actress already established it was the success of Lynda La Plante 's 12 part series for Euston Films , WIDOWS , ( 1982 ) , which enabled her to concentrate full time on writing . |
| 22 | A number of studies have brought out the bargaining strength of trade unions during the period of near full employment [ Brown , 1981 ] , which enabled them to reinforce long-established work practices which were an incubus on British industry in the form of overmanning . |
| 23 | Woosnam , who was playing with Parry , salvaged a 73 which left him sharing fifth place with Price , four off the lead , which was rather better than it might have been . |
| 24 | It was not only duty which pushed him to make this offer , but also his old passion for her . |