Example sentences of "[indef pn] which [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything which recalled the past of tsarist Russia should be destroyed and replaced by new Soviet forms . |
| 2 | He was looking for something which immobilised the car and gave an audible warning if it was broken into . ’ |
| 3 | In spite of his distaste for ‘ frills ’ , he saw church-going as something one did out of obedience ; something which shaped the life of prayer and reminded each individual that he or she was a ‘ member incorporate in the blessed company of all faithful people ’ ; but not something which needed to be added to , still less enjoyed as a hobby . |
| 4 | He is clearly desperate to fit in , something which turned the renovations into an architectural method trip , with the actor flying back from film shoots to hassle the builders about saving any historical detail they could , no matter how trivial , so that the building retained its local character . |
| 5 | An awards system which recognises only HNC and HND achievement would be one which ignored the majority of SCOTVEC 's candidates — there are almost ten National Certificate candidates for every one in Advanced Courses . |
| 6 | The National Materials Handling Centre accordingly set up a Working Party , chaired by Mr. A. C. Parnell of Fire Check Consultants with a brief to examine the following areas of the problem ; the whole being intended to act as a plain main 's guide but one which had the agreement of all interested parties . |
| 7 | An example of such a calculation would be one which compared the images on the two retinas , and searched for differences which would provide information about relative distances . |
| 8 | In the future historians are likely to regard the post-1979 Conservative governments as also having produced a change in direction , one which reversed the direction of previous post-war administrations . |
| 9 | It was , of course , a very expensive operation but one which achieved the introduction of a complete range of products into the kitchens of those people whose sampling of the product would be the most valuable . |
| 10 | The ARC was defensive — its own existence being threatened by the Region administration , and was in no mood to rock the political boat by publishing a ‘ sensitive ’ report , i.e. one which revealed the inadequacies of their own policies , and would incur the displeasure of the corporate investors in the region . |
| 11 | And there was another one which affected the road , again the same road but north of Wych Cross , at Bramble Tie , which is between Forest Row and East Grinstead . |
| 12 | He called for a more critical approach , one which recognised the failures and shortcomings of what had been achieved , an accurate assessment of the intentions of policy-makers and legislators , and proper consideration of alternatives which might have been adopted . |
| 13 | To the untrained observer it was a room , an ordinary room , exciting in no particular way and one which contained the semblance of twelve human occupants . |
| 14 | The ‘ Entebbe Maths ’ in the ‘ sixties and for the ‘ sixties was a success story and one which laid the foundation for interest and expertise in curriculum development not only in Mathematics but in other subjects as well . |
| 15 | Many of the animals in this exhibition were gathered by hunters from a different era ; one which saw the decline of rarer species shot almost to the point of extinction . |
| 16 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Shape The most efficient sleeping bag would be one which followed the contours of your own body perfectly . |
| 19 | It was a more austere and intellectually demanding conception of the role of the student , though one which removed the student even more from the culture of the wider society . |
| 20 | An IT system is one which satisfied the information requirements of an enterprise by bringing together a relevant combination of technologies which capture , generate , transfer , store or process information . |
| 21 | None gave more than 13 hours to Language in Education ( except one which listed the whole 120 ) , and several gave none ( but unlike with the English tutors , this was generally recognised as a separate area ) . |
| 22 | Her last quarterly gas bill , one which covered the winter months , cost her nearly £60 , £5 per week . |
| 23 | My guess is that it was this if anything which provoked the reaction amongst British critics at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival , and the covert but unsuccessful attempt , reportedly led by a British daily newspaper , to have the film taken out of the Festival altogether . |
| 24 | Radical plans to remodel the education system , especially anything which resembled the undermining of the comprehensive secondary schools against which Tories had long since railed , were scrapped . |
| 25 | She was quick to tell the world that Britain would not stand for anything which undermined the role of the queen , ‘ our beloved monarch ’ , or of our 700-year-old parliament . |
| 26 | As parasitic tissues generally depend for survival on a more rapid synthesis of nucleic acid than the tissues on which they prey , anything which stopped the synthesis of nucleic acids had a chance of harming parasites more than their hosts . |
| 27 | They wished to discourage anything which gave the superpowers reason to think that their homelands could acquire sanctuary status . |
| 28 | He told the meeting of MPs that he would prefer to see a more democratically-accountable bank but that he refused to support anything which jeopardised the treaty . |