Example sentences of "[noun sg] which took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 2 | However mistaken he thought that she might be , and that her vision of life was based on a charming naïveté which took little account of the cruel realities of existence , it was , to him , admirable that she should care about such things , and in such a practical way when all was said and done . |
| 3 | On 19 September Ho embarked on a packet boat which took four weeks to reach Hanoi . |
| 4 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 5 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 6 | Germany 's bishops were in exile when Bismarck , in 1879 , began to consider a restoration of relations with the Papacy , a process which took several years ( see also below , p. 220 ) . |
| 7 | In particular , essentialist conceptions of the self which took effective hold only in the Enlightenment , then to be subsequently developed within ( for instance ) Romanticism and modernism , have been retrospectively read into the early modern period . |
| 8 | The overall effect of the system therefore , it could be argued , was to produce a rather impotent self-evaluation which took few risks followed by a local inspection little different from that of any other LEA . |
| 9 | On the following day , Franco took the salute at a victory parade which took five hours to pass the towering dais on which he stood , flanked by military officers , Party officials , Church dignitaries and government ministers . |
| 10 | The stress and tension of the occasion were partly to blame but the incident was also an early symptom of bulimia nervosa , the illness which took pernicious hold later that year . |
| 11 | The increase in fixed assets reflects two major freehold property purchases during the year which took full advantage of the depressed property market . |
| 12 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |