Example sentences of "which had [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Poultry had benefited from efficient , low-cost , intensive production systems which had led to a prize competitive product .
4 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 .
5 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 ] .
6 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 .
7 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 ] .
8 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 .
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