Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new members of the politburo were generally middle-aged officials and included a number of party secretaries from the coastal provinces which had led the Dengist economic reform drive . |
| 2 | So it was not after all , the pressure from the farmers , or the cost , or the private discussions with the fertiliser manufacturers which had motivated the UK to drag its feet over nitrates , but a uniquely shrewd insight into the better interests of public health . |
| 3 | The charm — that demon glitter of narrowed eyes which had given the lie to all previous insults — was conspicuously absent . |
| 4 | On Feb. 21 , the Voice of Israel said that the Israeli army units which had attacked the villages of Kafra and Yatar had " completed their task " and were leaving Lebanese territory . |
| 5 | Of the 90 members of the National Assembly , serving a four-year term , 40 were directly elected ; the remaining 50 were distributed by the Republican Electoral Commission according to a proportional representation system among those eight parties which had reached the threshold for parliamentary representation by winning 3 per cent or more of the vote . |
| 6 | The four opposition parties which had formed the Democratic Bloc in May [ see p. 38982 ] voiced opposition to the constitutional proposals . |
| 7 | On Feb. 10 , 15 of the 23 parties which had contested the municipal elections had said that they would not participate in the legislative elections . |
| 8 | The election was widely characterized as a contest between " angel " or pro-democracy parties which had opposed the Suchinda government ( the Democrat Party , New Aspiration Party , Palang Dharma and Ekkaparb ) and " devil " or pro-military parties . |
| 9 | It was they who , at the turn of the century , founded the socialist parties which came to dominate the political scene in 1917 . |
| 10 | But , despite initial successes in the eastern campaign , the military setbacks of the first winter in Russia marked the end of the ‘ sunny Hitler weather ’ — the run of the easy triumphs which had formed the corner-stone of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 11 | This commitment , together with the bipartisan majorities in favour of the measure in both Houses , was in sharp contrast to the partisan disputes which had delayed the passage of the initial benefits extension in late 1991 . |
| 12 | In approaching philosophical problems John Locke ( 1632–1704 ) kept the temperature of discussion as low as possible ; there was no point in reviving the interminable religious disputes which had produced the Wars of Religion in the earlier seventeenth century . |
| 13 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 14 | The movement moved round the ports of Britain like wildfire and at each , beginning with Southampton , the owners made concessions which served to encourage the strikers elsewhere and weaken the determination of the employers . |
| 15 | There were other more prosaic influences which helped to mould the crucible as well as Green 's life . |
| 16 | His success depended upon the general agreement on atomic weights and formulae which had followed the Karlsruhe Conference of 1860 ; after the conference delegates had read the paper of S. Cannizzaro , and came to agree with its recommendations . |
| 17 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 18 | We sat through some very boring speeches which attempted to make the thoughts of Mao , Marx and Lenin exciting and accessible to a bunch of dumb women , and then broke for coffee . |
| 19 | James Stewart was judicially assassinated by the Scottish Whig establishment : in part , to deter further resistance by clans to the forfeiture of chiefs and gentry and , in part , to demonstrate that the suspicion of the Scots which had gripped the court and Westminster since the battle of Culloden was no longer justified . |
| 20 | An agreement signed by the government of President Violeta Chamorro and by the National Workers ' Front ( FNT ) on July 12 ended a 15-day general strike by an estimated 100,000 workers in public , private and agricultural sectors which had paralysed the country and brought it to the brink of civil war . |
| 21 | A hideous , distorted , emaciated maniac without knowledge , without patriotism , without natural affection , spending his life in a long routine of useless and atrocious self-torture , and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero , and the lives of Socrates and Cato . |
| 22 | It was a familiar scene , which had been repeated in dozens of rooms and halls throughout the police area ; the same old battered filing cabinets and rickety tables ; chipped metal trays and typewriters which had withstood the assaults of a generation of heavy handed coppers . |
| 23 | Against this background the institutions which had become the responsibility of Bedfordshire County Council were under pressure which was reflected in the occupancy figures at St. Peter 's for July 1931 : |
| 24 | The terror and the execution of the king paralysed and disgusted those intellectuals who , formed by French books and sharing the ideologies which had inspired the moderates in 1789 , now saw ordered progress drowned in blood . |
| 25 | Third , detailed consideration was required of the reasons which had prompted the Cambridge Board to consider seeking providing powers for courses of a lower academic standard than those traditionally offered by universities in counties beyond those for which exceptional agreements existed . |
| 26 | The Commission responded by urging Contracting States which had made the Reservation under Article 23 to withdraw it , or at least adopt the language of the United Kingdom Reservation . |
| 27 | The understanding of the United States in drafting the Protocol was that while the United States would ratify the Convention as well as the Protocol , ratification of the latter alone not being permitted , this would create treaty obligations binding upon the United States only with other states which had ratified the Protocol and in accordance with its terms . |
| 28 | It was assumed that spoken forms which failed to observe the rules of morphology and syntax considered appropriate to written forms were ‘ incorrect ’ and ‘ ungrammatical ’ . |
| 29 | A feature of the safety approach favoured by the CEGB is the use of microprocessor technology in a bid to side-step the errors by operators which helped cause the Three Mile Island accident in the US four years ago . |
| 30 | Reginald Bray , a friend of Masterman 's , would remark on the same development : As Bray organised the arguments of Iris powerful Christian treatise on The Town Child ( 1907 ) around deep shades of pastoral contrast between the serenity of natural phenomena and what he regarded as the unnatural and shallow inconsistency of the irreverent city , he thought that ‘ the most remarkable effect of an urban environment is to be sought in the disappearance of the habit of self-control ’ : The riotous jingo crowds which had accompanied the Ladysmith and Mafeking celebrations during the Boer War had indeed provided one of the most visible manifestations of these perceived alterations among the British people , and observing that ‘ to ‘ Maffick ’ ’ is not really congenial to the British character' The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) had mused upon whether ‘ our national character was changing for the worse ’ . |