Example sentences of "which had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They were : the Zimbabwe United Movement ( ZUM , former ZANU-PF secretary-general Edgar Tekere l. ) , the main opposition party , formed in April 1989 , which incorporated the all-white Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe ; Zimbabwe African National Union ( Ndonga ) ( ZANU ( Ndonga ) , Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole l. ) which had emerged as a breakaway ZANU faction ; the nationalist United African National Council ( UANC , formerly led by Bishop Muzorewa ) ; and the National Democratic Union .
2 Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating .
3 the rain which had threatened in a previous scene
4 The meeting was concerned with a new Australian peace plan which proposed a large-scale UN involvement in Cambodia and which had met with a favourable response at the UN Security Council during January and February .
5 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 .
6 Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended .
7 This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s .
8 This represented a major concession on the part of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) delegation , led by Hun Sen , the SOC Premier , which had pressed for a first-past-the-post system .
9 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 .
10 In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier .
11 It is believed , however , that some early igneous rocks , which had to solidify from a molten state , are proof that some atmospheric gases ( such as carbon dioxide , nitrogen and water vapour ) had to be present to turn them into something approaching earthlike rocks and clays by a primitive ‘ weathering ’ process .
12 Under the country 's new Constitution introduced in April 1992 , a single President replaced the old Council of State which had served as a collective presidency .
13 Their history told of many wars and truces between the villagers and the " men of the trees " , and of how the monkeys would carry their dead down into those same caves which had served as a human burial-ground or , rather , burial-dump since pre-Islamic times .
14 Hérard Abraham fulfilled his promise to reorganize the Presidential Guard , which had served as an important prop of the Avril regime , but the Army as a whole seemed unwilling to become involved in imposing authority .
15 Poultry had benefited from efficient , low-cost , intensive production systems which had led to a prize competitive product .
16 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 .
17 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 ] .
18 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 .
19 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 ] .
20 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 .
21 I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG ’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge .
22 The New York Times of Aug. 14 reported that Iraq had transferred between US$3,000 million and $5,000 million in gold , foreign currency and goods from Kuwait and that this had significantly increased Iraq 's financial reserves which had stood at an estimated US$6,500 million before the invasion .
23 This appeared to go back on the health white paper , which had stated in a detailed working document : ‘ Legislation will be needed in order to require FPCs ( family practitioner committees ) and RHAs to keep to their drug budgets . ’
24 A fall off in world prices dampened the expectations of international creditor banks , which had hoped for a higher level of interest payments on Ecuador 's foreign debt ( estimated to be over US$12,000 million ) , as well as domestic hopes for increased social spending .
25 A leading Right-On thinker , she had co-written the Beyond The Fragments book which had started as a mere pamphlet , but had attracted so much interest that it had been upgraded and sold an extremely respectable 20,000 copies in paperback , having a major effect on its earnest readership .
26 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 .
27 In Britain , from around 1800 , traders in towns had done no more than seek to control the sale of goods and services on promises to pay later by combining into Trade Protection Societies , which had grouped into a National Association of Trade Protection Societies ( NATPS ) .
28 It followed a visit to Japan in November 1989 by Kaysone Phomvihane , Chairman of the Lao Council of Ministers and general secretary of the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) , which had resulted in a substantial Japanese aid package to Laos [ see p. 37287 ] .
29 Hilda Lodge , in her new capacity of Chairman , welcomed everyone and said that apologies had been received from a number of teachers which had resulted in a smaller than usual attendance .
30 The opening ceremony on Feb. 19 of the National Assembly , which had convened for a 35-day session to elect Taiwan 's President , was disrupted by opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) members protesting at " mainland " domination .
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