Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Arcy 's aircraft had nosed cautiously down through the dense , sluggish cloudcover which had kept the lid firmly on the sultry atmosphere of the city for the past week . |
| 2 | It is not a description that would have satisfied Mr C. G. Heathcote , for example , the Stipendiary Magistrate for Brighton , when asked for his opinions on the question of juvenile crime in 1898 : Mr Heathcote 's remarks are preserved in a report on Juvenile Offenders compiled by the Howard Association which had scouted the opinions of the magistracy and police . |
| 3 | Normally when she had gone well , it had been her horse which had received the praise . |
| 4 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 5 | Painstakingly , Milton once again explained the reasoning which had led the police conclusively to dismiss the likelihood that terrorists were responsible . |
| 6 | Only days before , he had maintained his opposition to an elected constituent assembly , and had refused to receive an OAS human rights delegation which wanted to investigate the clash between the police and Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas in the Miguel Castro Castro prison in the capital Lima [ see below ] . |
| 7 | He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait . |
| 8 | A total of 600 people were arrested and 33 killed in Sind during the first two weeks of an intensive army operation begun in early June , aimed at controlling the wave of rural banditry and urban violence which had swept the province since April . |
| 9 | In response to these attacks , Archbishop Romero refused to attend the inauguration of the new president , General Romero , claiming he had a more important engagement with the people , an adroit reference to the huge fraud and violence which had accompanied the elections . |
| 10 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 11 | In the event , Mountbatten remained as Governor-General of India , in which capacity , at the invitation of the Congress leaders , he was briefly and secretly to resume executive power in 1947 to deal with the communal violence which threatened to destroy the infant state . |
| 12 | Their advice was not wholly disinterested , however , since there seems to have been a move in the Conservative Party at this time to replace Baldwin as Party leader by Austen Chamberlain , and so prepare the ground for another Conservative/Liberal Coalition-a reversal , as Cowling puts it , of the verdict of the Carlton Club which had destroyed the Lloyd George Coalition . |
| 13 | The car which had caught the little boy 's eye was a black 6-series BMW saloon — a car which possessed far more style and expensive panache than those which were normally seen around . |
| 14 | In June 1914 , the celebrated dining car which had won the Grand Prix at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 became part of the Royal Train . |
| 15 | On May 22 , 1990 , the new Premier Antall read the government programme which included joining the EC within the decade as well as becoming a member of the new European security order . |
| 16 | On May 17 Havel addressed a Civic Forum rally in Prague to mark the half-anniversary of the student demonstration which had begun the revolution in November 1989 ; at this occasion he said that he would vote for named Civic Forum candidates who were government ministers . |
| 17 | Voting was freely and fairly conducted , with more than 81 per cent of the country 's 29,000,000 registered voters participating in the poll and votes being tallied with abacuses in order to avoid the allegations of computer fraud which had marred the 1987 presidential elections . |
| 18 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 19 | In 1979 Marsh published a study which attempted to assess the price effects of rights issues and consequently the semi-strong efficiency of the London Stock Exchange . |
| 20 | A couple of hours later the same Burnmouth boat which had brought the Marischal in picked its secret way out of Berwick harbour , with the three knights as passengers . |
| 21 | This prediction failure is , in turn , the result of a series of unanticipated actions by the monetary authorities , that is , unanticipated departures from the policy rule which had governed the conduct of monetary policy down to period . |
| 22 | The obstacles in his way , as he saw it , were the rule which purported to prevent the making of an ex parte residence order and section 9(5) of the Act . |
| 23 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 24 | Further out , in the fashionable village-suburb of Breasbrough , civic spirits were high at a New Year 's Eve party , where left-wing councillors , left-wing teachers , left-wing journalists , left-wing social workers and a few agnostic entrepreneurs raised their glasses and looked forward to the exhilarating confrontation of the approaching steel strike : they were high on a recent freak by-election in the neighbourhood which had reversed the national trend to the Right and given , in their own view , a renewed popular blessing to their defiant , daring programme of high social expenditure . |
| 25 | In 1858 he had moved from the Governorship of Kurland to a position in the Ministry of State Properties , an institution which had forsaken the sympathy for reform which it had displayed under Kiselev . |
| 26 | While most of this was routine , the Secretary was in a position to expedite or delay the royal grants of patronage which had to pass the Signet . |
| 27 | The rioting which had shaken the capital , Lomé , during March [ see p. 38085 ] , continued into April as students and citizens pressed demands for political reform . |
| 28 | In short , quite apart from economic or foreign policy considerations , the social momentum which had sustained the British throughout their difficult experiences since 1945 was not being maintained . |
| 29 | His head had been propped against a rock which had attracted the lightning of a sudden thunderstorm : the bolt had hit the rock straight on and rolled down the rock — so they all swore — to stab him fatally in the neck . |
| 30 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |