Example sentences of "[conj] which [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Approved by 193 votes to 39 with 33 abstentions , the new law permitted a termination during the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy which was the result of rape or which endangered the life of the mother , if the foetus was malformed , or if the pregnancy would cause a " psychological crisis " or a " social problem " . |
| 2 | This is so even if the interpretation given to an experience , or which stimulated the experience , is one not authentic to it , conditioned perhaps by the society of which the individual is a part . |
| 3 | Its London frontbenchers work as a team , backed by a campaign committee which was set up under the chairmanship of the shadow Commons leader , Jack Cunningham , after bad local-election results in London a year ago — and which produced the London manifesto . |
| 4 | Yesterday 's Court of Appeal ruling overturned a High Court judge 's decision last month in favour of Hi-Tech Xtravision , of Camberley , Surrey , which makes and sells rival decoders and which challenged the right of BBC Enterprises to grant an exclusive decoder distributorship to Northampton-based Space Communications ( Sat Tel ) Ltd . |
| 5 | The constitution of the Vth Republic was intended to overcome the chronic factionalism , irresponsibility and opportunism which characterised the behaviour of deputés under those republics , and which rendered the government inoperable . |
| 6 | But of course we could n't ignore the factors which er were argued in front of the judge and which led the judge to make his ruling . |
| 7 | The Soviet specialists doubted the existence of local Mexican monopolies and defended an interpretation which ascribed a more progressive character to the Mexican state and which noted the primacy of anti-imperialist struggle ’ ( Carr : 1985 , p. 216 , footnote 38 ) . |
| 8 | Around 1903 , Colnaghi 's successful informal partnership with Knoedler 's began in an atmosphere which Hall describes as characterised by ‘ an affection and openness unusual among dealers of today ’ , and rested its success on Colnaghi 's ability to supply Old Masters , particularly Dutch seventeenth-century paintings , subsequently purchased by Henry Frick , and which formed the core of his collection . |
| 9 | My noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , at p. 112b , after pointing out that the draft Regulations were not capable of being amended when presented to Parliament , said that it was ‘ entirely legitimate for the purpose of ascertaining the intention of Parliament to take into account the terms in which the draft was presented by the responsible minister and which formed the basis of its acceptance . ’ |
| 10 | The Economist referred to the device of ‘ calling in a High Court judge to write incredible economic nonsense ’ , but whatever view is taken of the justice or the wisdom of the report which recommended a considerable wage increase and which formed the basis of the settlement , the impression given was that the government had set up this enquiry to produce a report which would enable them to yield to the miners ' claim without total loss of face . |
| 11 | A good starting point is Bell 's ( 1968 ) work on middle-class families in South Wales , which highlighted the importance of financial support in middle-class kin groups and which identified the link between father and son ( or son-in-law ) as the main channel through which it flowed . |
| 12 | To administer the new arrangement , the Cambridge Board established its own ad hoc rural areas committee in February 1930 in conjunction with other developments in Cambridgeshire and which reflected the Board 's interest and developing policy for course provision under both Chapters II and III . |
| 13 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |
| 14 | That being so , it is worthwhile recalling the view of the student that went with that earlier epistemology and which generated the idea of students ' academic freedom ( or Lernfreiheit , as it was known ) . |
| 15 | Pre-colonial Africa did not lack entrepreneurs who managed trading companies , in some cases stretching well beyond contemporary national frontiers , and which had the capacity to invest profits from trade in production . |
| 16 | There are several such comments in the sermon which he preached to a national council apparently in 1008 , and which became the law codes V and VI Æthelred . |
| 17 | The crowd cheered the Empress who responded with a curtsy — that famous gesture which those who witnessed it never forgot and which became the hallmark of Eugénie 's graciousness . |
| 18 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 19 | Its enactment followed the recommendations of the Robens Committee on Safety and Health at Work , published in July 1972 whose main concern was health and Safety in the workplace and which stressed the need to involve both management and employees to achieve that aim . |
| 20 | A two storey building linked by a bridge to the main building , and which incorporated the Library was substantially modified to provide a Modern Languages Suite situated at First Floor Level , with additional Classrooms and Offices , located on the Ground Floor . |
| 21 | In this memoir he identified the arrivals of dilatational and distortional body waves ( P-waves and S-waves ) and of surface waves in seismic recordings , a finding which was further documented in a paper of 1900 and which laid the foundations for the instrumental study of earthquakes and of the Earth 's deep interior . |
| 22 | In Gubisch Maschinenfabrik K.G. v. Palumbo ( Case 144/86 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 , which Mr. Beazley relied on as laying down the broad general principles which should be applicable , and which concerned the interpretation of article 21 of the Brussels Convention , the Court of Justice stated , at p. 4874 : |
| 23 | ( b ) That if the effect of the proviso were to impose a restraint of trade then the consequence was that not only the proviso but also the whole of the paragraph to which the proviso related and which contained the stipulation that post-termination commission would be paid was void . |
| 24 | The girl 's parents and guardian ad litem agreed to the proposed order , which included a term that the girl should have no contact with her father , and which envisaged the possibility of placing the girl with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 25 | Following discussions by a forum of some 70 senior executives from the industry , brought together by the Association , and which invited the HCIMA to set up an industry-led accreditation scheme . |
| 26 | Writing subsequently and at greater length , Butenko set out a vision of the Soviet future that was based upon the concept of ‘ socialist popular self-management ’ and which involved the abolition of the nomenklatura appointments system and a wide-ranging electoral reform . |
| 27 | The World Bank is criticised for supporting projects such as the Indonesian transmigration programme , for which technical assistance was provided by the UK Overseas Development Agency , and which involved the relocation of some four million people and the destruction of more than 12,000 square miles of virgin rainforest . |
| 28 | Two moments which set the course of the presidential election and which changed the course of American history . |
| 29 | Now he was whirling his sabre in a novel manner , invented by himself to give optimum performance in hand-to-hand combat , and which suggested the sails of a windmill . |
| 30 | The sole Dino Berlinetta Speciale is now part of the permanent collection of the Le Mans car museum in France , a fitting place for a car that drew its design inspiration from the first mid-engined Ferrari sports racing cars and which shocked the world at Paris more than a quarter of a century ago . |