Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [vb past] at the " in BNC.

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1 Labour 's employment spokesman was blamed for much of the confusion which arose at the TUC on the issue .
2 Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) .
3 It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war .
4 The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories .
5 The sum insured applicable to a claim is the figure which applied at the date of the loss , i.e. the sum insured at inception/renewal date plus the appropriate index-linking to the date of loss .
6 My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral .
7 The first floor of the Post Office had some rooms over the lane which contained at the end nearest the street , some of Salisbury 's oldest buildings .
8 Under the old set up , I ran a course which looked at the problems of language learning chronologically .
9 I explained in my statement in the annual report about the management reorganisation which occurred at the end of nineteen eighty nine .
10 Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century .
11 It was this issue which lay at the heart of Dicey 's concern about droit administratif .
12 King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle .
13 He thought about the decadence which existed at the centre of the Empire .
14 It was later provided that if the commissioner from the presiding burgh should be absent , or refuse to vote , the commissioner from the burgh which presided at the last election should have the casting vote and so backwards in rotation .
15 It was further provided by Statute that , in supplying a vacancy occurring during the sitting of Parliament , the burgh which presided at the election of the former member should preside at the new election .
16 Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre .
17 But the allegations of a popish plot which broke at the end of 1678 embarrassed Dering deeply , dividing him between a strong anti-Catholicism and his loyalty to the monarchy and his patrons in the government .
18 But the question which struck at the heart of the matter was put to Sir Geoffrey on 5 July in the Commons by Jim Sillars , the Scottish Nationalist .
19 This was the question which lay at the heart of every murder investigation ; and yet he knew its absurdity before he asked it .
20 LETTER-BOMBERS who sent a package which exploded at the Cambridgeshire headquarters of Anglian Water yesterday have been roundly condemned by Scottish National Party leaders .
21 There was , of course , a great deal of fun as well , and I made some contribution to the musical life of INSEAD by setting up an 11-piece band which played at the summer ball amongst other events .
22 Modern discussion of the issue has normally centred on the role of the Woodvilles , who are identified as the cause of a split within the ruling group which lay at the root of the crisis .
23 Modern discussion of the issue has normally centred on the role of the Woodvilles , who are identified as the cause of a split within the ruling group which lay at the root of the crisis .
24 A keen music lover he was also honorary general secretary of the Darlington Music Festival which finished at the weekend .
25 Matthew had a smaller room which projected at the back , over the kitchen .
26 He recalled the ancient baptistery which stood at the east end of the church , where the bodies of the archbishops had lain , and where the trials by ordeal had taken place .
27 Yet yesterday 's report on the Clapham crash , confirming the picture which emerged throughout the Hidden inquiry , makes an event which seemed at the time totally unexpected look almost inevitable .
28 Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró ‘ Joan Miró ’ ( 1 April-1 May ) Assembles the permanent collection of this new Foundation which opened at the end of last year on the property where Miró and his family lived .
29 The only evidence which seemed at the time to offer any reliable dating was that of the coins which were of sufficient interest to the nineteenth-century antiquarians for them to be recorded , although rarely in detail .
30 At least , that much Annie gathered from other discussions and the political writing which flourished at the time .
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