Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Arcy 's aircraft had nosed cautiously down through the dense , sluggish cloudcover which had kept the lid firmly on the sultry atmosphere of the city for the past week . |
| 2 | Saigon 's main boulevard , the Rue Catinat , linked the docks and the cathedral , symbols of the twin goals of commerce and religion which had led France to colonize the land , and in its fashionable sidewalk cafe 's they saw deferential Annamese waiters in black turbans and linen gowns darting among the marble-topped tables , serving aperitifs to languid groups of their European colonizers . |
| 3 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 4 | It was still , however , dynastic and political considerations rather than religion which began drawing Picts and Scots into a closer relationship . |
| 5 | ‘ A wall of water over forty feet high , ’ she repeated , recalling the roaring which had made her ears ache , and had grown unbelievably loud just before the wall hit her home . |
| 6 | The workshop sessions at Highlander which had sought to clarify the types of information which were required led to the production of a coding sheet which research workers could fill in with the individual details , thereby ensuring both comprehensive coverage , and compatibility between researchers . |
| 7 | It is not a description that would have satisfied Mr C. G. Heathcote , for example , the Stipendiary Magistrate for Brighton , when asked for his opinions on the question of juvenile crime in 1898 : Mr Heathcote 's remarks are preserved in a report on Juvenile Offenders compiled by the Howard Association which had scouted the opinions of the magistracy and police . |
| 8 | The same sort of guilt by association which had tainted Keynesian economics in the wake of the Phillips curve débâcle has tainted the rational expectations hypothesis owing to its close connection , through Keynesian eyes , with the policy inefficacy proposition of the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 9 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 10 | A camel is a horse which got designed by a committee . |
| 11 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
| 12 | Normally when she had gone well , it had been her horse which had received the praise . |
| 13 | Were , therefore , the deputies of the Cortes to limit themselves to the study of the ‘ means and methods of expelling the French army ’ , or was their sacred task to endow Spain with a constitution that would limit the despotism which had ended in French invasion ? |
| 14 | We 've still got the Ryder Cup on this side of the Atlantic which is what we set out to do , " the Captain said as he arrived in the interview area alongside all of the side which had served him so well . |
| 15 | The black metallic S curve of the elevated train shadowed the squalor of the lower east side which had begun to grow under it . |
| 16 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 17 | They have been doubled by Oldham , been beaten by Sheffield United and last night went down to a Middlesbrough side which had lost its previous six matches . |
| 18 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 19 | They were England 's only changes from the side which had won so handsomely at Christchurch and Auckland . |
| 20 | Liam Coyle who has scored three of Derry 's four competitive goals so far this season , booked City 's last eight berth with a close range strike in the seventh minute , but thereafter , it was yet another case of Derry flattering to deceive as they quickly ran out of ideas against a United side which failed to test City goalkeeper Dermot O'Neill at any time during the game . |
| 21 | Well , a side which did win and won well ; Bicester against Swindon Athletic in the Hellenic League premier division ; Bicester six , Swindon Athletic one , to tell us about it , Charlie Rawling . |
| 22 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
| 23 | Painstakingly , Milton once again explained the reasoning which had led the police conclusively to dismiss the likelihood that terrorists were responsible . |
| 24 | The trunks in the clearing had formed an ever-tightening ring which threatened to overpower him ; to crush him with its living might . |
| 25 | Reports in late October confirmed that France had arrested key members of a Paris-based Russian espionage ring which had gained access to highly classified information on nuclear experiments . |
| 26 | Matta had been accused of overseeing a ring which had distributed cocaine worth $72,000,000 in Los Angeles , and Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) officials claimed that he controlled a drug-trafficking empire worth up to $2,000 million . |
| 27 | The conditions set out by Samuel were intended to distance the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition which had cast its shadow across the politics of the 1920s . |
| 28 | During the course of the news conference both Assad and Mubarak said that they opposed any renewed military action against Iraq ; Syria and Egypt had both committed ground forces to the US-led coalition which had ousted Iraq from Kuwait in February 1991 . |
| 29 | Following an LDP conference , the party leadership announced on Sept. 19 that it planned to break away from the coalition which had backed Aquino . |
| 30 | The first major demonstration against the three-party ruling coalition which had come to power in April 1990 [ see p. 37380 ] erupted in September 1990 . |