Example sentences of "[noun] which [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ever there was a team performance this was it , with the most striking feature the absolute and total commitment of an inspirational Irish side which simply left England reeling . |
| 2 | If ever there was a team performance this was it , with the most striking feature the absolute and total commitment of an inspirational Irish side which simply left England reeling . |
| 3 | All had been part of the Reagan-Bush administration which illegally sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 4 | There then followed an episode which further proved Cid 's loyalty and Alfonso 's treacherous nature . |
| 5 | There was a glitter of hostility in the girl 's velvet-dark eyes which momentarily took Caroline 's breath away … |
| 6 | Walter Peckle , the chief clerk , was a young man grown old before his time , with a complexion sallow and unhealthy , sunken cheeks , and eyes which never stopped blinking . |
| 7 | It was no wonder that the Vietnamese , he said , were willing to turn to anyone who offered them a helping hand ; and for the time being , for him and perhaps for most Vietnamese , it was China , and the kuomintang , not surprisingly , which exerted the greatest influence on the development of Vietnamese nationalism : and especially a Kuomintang which still included communists as well as nationalists . |
| 8 | It was UNIP which eventually took control of the first independent government winning , in January 1964 , fifty-five seats to the ANC 's ten . |
| 9 | On the other hand , unlike their predecessors , they were not advocates of single causes , such as temperance or even religious instruction , but instead sought to attract members with a varied programme which consciously mixed recreation with education , welfare , and sometimes church attendance , for a variety of reasons all of which rested on the specificity of youth in relation to age and to class . |
| 10 | During the Giscard Presidency : the news and current affairs coverage satisfied no-one : neither the President , who thought — and said — that the journalists of the state television had been better disposed toward his predecessors ; nor the socialist and communist opposition which periodically ran campaigns in favour of the freedom of news broadcasting . ’ |
| 11 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 12 | She gave a magazine interview which considerably dented Prince Charles 's image as a charming Casanova . |
| 13 | Almost all the coral which once surrounded Japan 's southern islands has been destroyed by pollution caused by soil erosion , and rising sea temperatures threaten to kill the world 's remaining blue coral . |
| 14 | The Adrian Sherwood-isms which previously dominated NIN 's sound are gone , replaced by an incredibly aggressive but still quite electric musical approach . |
| 15 | Yet the Italian should perhaps be grateful for a more discriminating anniversary review of his achievements in place of the flood of notes and words which almost submerged Mozart 's genius . |
| 16 | He had not acted on impulse since his time as a young captain in Morocco , anxious to make his mark in an institution which deliberately massified people and subjugated their individuality . |
| 17 | At least 50 civilian demonstrators were killed by the military in a confrontation which ultimately forced Suchinda to resign in June , when the House of Representatives was dissolved and a new interim government appointed ahead of a fresh general election [ see pp. 38816 ; 38865 ; 38894-95 ; 38966 ] . |
| 18 | We have continued to develop the sale of high quality timber into those branches which previously sold building materials only . |
| 19 | They swam like long rubbery strip-lights through the water 's gentle currents , and kept the rooms , corridors and towers of the castle bathed in a silky , pervasive light which sometimes made distances hard to measure and gave the air a thick sort of look . |
| 20 | There was a wonderful piece by TPO'Mahony in the Cork evening Echo which really put Bono in his place . |
| 21 | Was not ‘ cushion ’ the term which eventually became vogue for the extra help which was thrown over the poll tax time and again in a vain attempt to douse the flames of dissent . |
| 22 | They described themselves as rusyny , a term which merely indicated descent from the inhabitants of the medieval principality of Rus ' . |
| 23 | There was practically none of the systematic planning and oversight which so characterised Bath and many other spas : that could only come from the implementation of a single plan by a great landowner and architect , and Brighton had a few of these . |
| 24 | The most active counties continued to be Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire which together provided 56% of the total number of classes and students . |
| 25 | He took out the waxen figure which also contained straw and fat from a hanged man . |
| 26 | The cloud rolled effortlessly and relentlessly down the slopes of the volcano , spreading out into a broad fan which rapidly engulfed St Pierre , and in the next two or three minutes killed all but two of the population , and set the town ablaze from end to end . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the paper imposed a 4 per cent pay deal , sweetened with merit money , an action which further inflamed feelings and led to industrial action and set Monday 9 October as the date when all would be revealed . |
| 28 | Paul Barron was a capable goalkeeper , who joined the Palace in the summer of 1980 , as part of the complex deal which also brought Clive Allen to Selhurst Park and took Kenny Sansom to Highbury but , for the £400,000 rated Barron — and all Palace 's players — 1980–81 was a miserable season . |
| 29 | The German environment minister , Klaus Töpfer , has announced details of a programme to improve environmental quality in the five states which formally comprised East Germany . |
| 30 | They whitewashed their hair which then went spikey , they invented soap , were keen on their appearance . |