Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was dressed in blue — a pale blue skirt which reached to mid-calf and a darker blue blouse buttoned to the throat . |
| 2 | It may have sounded like good fun , and obviously was for many young people , but this pleasurable diversion had a very serious side which went beyond romance . |
| 3 | The tariff which came into operation in 1880 was a direct response . |
| 4 | The third National Government was not a power-sharing coalition , but a coalition which led to party fusion . |
| 5 | This requires us to reverse the steps which led to eqn ( 7.9 ) . |
| 6 | A wide range of sources has been sifted to reconstruct the changing ideas and goals of the masses : private correspondence and letters to the press , contemporary reports in the metropolitan and local press and the myriad publications put out by the new organizations which sprang to life after February , memoirs and official reports , conference protocols and records of the countless resolutions passed in grass-roots meetings in the villages , at the factory gate , in soldiers ' committees and local soviets . |
| 7 | She fluttered ahead , pouring out a little flow of sympathy and self-reproach which fell like music upon the rector 's ears . |
| 8 | It consisted of small units which patrolled in mufti in civilian cars . |
| 9 | Do you know , the cobblestones could n't be seen for the blood which swilled like water ? |
| 10 | Despite a ceasefire declared by the Amal leader ( and Minister in the Hoss Cabinet ) Nabbi Berri which came into force on April 23 , fighting continued into May , with an Amal military commander , Ayyad Ayyad , being killed on May 2 . |
| 11 | It was the steady flow of student and ex-student recruits which brought into being and helped to sustain the radical circles , organizations and nation-wide parties of the revolutionary underground . |
| 12 | An government austerity programme which went into effect on June 1 raised rates for public utilities by up to 30 per cent and planned for a further devaluation of the colón and a C6,000 million reduction in public spending ( as at June 18 the official exchange rate was US$1.00=C88.8 ) . |
| 13 | Two judges found the evidence of a contract too thin to grant an injunction on " balance of convenience " principles ; the third , Lord Justice Kerr , said that in principle an injunction should not be granted to stop a programme which depended on topicality and timing . |
| 14 | Only two of the five parties which applied for registration had been accepted — the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) , and the Democratic Renewal Party ( PRD ) . |
| 15 | It is perfectly true that Blake did have a battery-operated radio in his cell which worked on medium and long waves only . |
| 16 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 17 | Combining the two ideas produced a four part storyline which went into studio production during August 1964 . |
| 18 | The new legislation regarding seat belt wearing in the rear seats of cars which came into effect on 1 July 1991 has had a downward effect on the number of rear seat car passenger casualties . |
| 19 | On 2 February 1989 Jones sent in to the APS an abstract of his intended talk which stated in part ‘ We have accumulated considerable evidence for a new form of cold nuclear fusion which occurs when hydrogen isotopes are loaded into various materials , notably crystalline solids ( without muons ) ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 20 | The sold-out concert was scheduled to take place at Seattle 's 15,000 capacity Coliseum , however , Nirvana are believed to have pulled out because Kurt Cobain was furious over an interview which appeared in Vanity Fair magazine which revealed that he and his wife Courtney Love had indulged in a drug ‘ binge ’ while Courtney was pregnant ( see last week 's NME ) . |
| 21 | All this was little more than the Ministry of Health could offer in 1935 as advice for scheme preparation , in guidance which remained in force for the remainder of the decade . |
| 22 | She was wanting to describe the nature of the malai government but did n't want to use the first words which came to mind , which were ‘ military dictatorship ’ . |
| 23 | She dug her fingers in his hair convulsively and said the words which floated on top of her mind , thoughtlessly ; if she had thought about them , she would never have said them . |
| 24 | He did , however , have a particular aptitude for portraying women , a talent which matured to genius during the course of his painting career . |
| 25 | But when , finally , the story of Loulou and Félicité came to be written , it was the parrot which stayed in place , and the owner who was changed . |
| 26 | A beautiful place , one of those convents which reeked of wealth , security , and its own strange kind of serenity . |
| 27 | On the left of the road , a mile across the brown dust , was a high ridge of black rock which glinted like coal . |
| 28 | THIS year sees the 50th anniversary of the launch of HMS Khedive , an assault fighter aircraft carrier which operated with distinction in the South of France landings and in the Aegean Sea , and later against the Japanese . |
| 29 | The new water bye-laws which came into force in January 1989 are still not widely known . |
| 30 | Barbara took another glass of champagne from the tray which passed in front of them . |