Example sentences of "which [vb past] characterized the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , by this time the violence provoked by the new anti-Semitic wave and incited by propaganda had put the ‘ Jewish Question ’ back in a high place on the agenda , and pressure was mounting from within the Party for anti-Semitic legislation to fulfil the aims of the Party programme , and from the public for regulations to put an end to the ‘ individual actions ’ which had characterized the summer of violence . |
| 2 | Despite the increasing difficulties which Edward faced in financing his wars in Scotland , the parliaments of these years are free of the political and constitutional arguments which had characterized the last years of Edward I 's reign . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the crude and uncomplicated alliance between State and nobility which had characterized the heyday of Tsarism could never be the same again . |
| 4 | And intermarriage is something which had characterized the age of the tyrants , epitomized by the party given by Kleisthenes of Sikyon for his daughter Agariste 's suitors ( Hdt. vi . |
| 5 | The creation of a northern province ended Canterbury 's sole direction of the Anglo-Saxon Church , which had characterized the archiepiscopates of Theodore and Beorhtwald , and an important stage in the development of the Church in England was reached with the establishment of the Northumbrian kingdom as an independent ecclesiastical community within the Catholic order of western Europe . |
| 6 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 7 | The oligopolistic accommodation which had characterized the UK fertilizer industry was undermined in 1986 by the inflow of cheap urea imports . |
| 8 | After the inflation and eventual recession of the 1970s and the greedy pursuit of money in the 1980s , people ( especially the young ) rediscovered some of the faith in the future and the enthusiasm for change which had characterized the 1960s . |
| 9 | North also testified that Poindexter had destroyed a document signed by the then President , Ronald Reagan , which had characterized the shipment as an arms-for-hostages arrangement . |
| 10 | Thus , his willingness to enter budgetary talks without preconditions — a point made by Bush to congressional leaders on May 6 — was welcomed by many Democrats as evidence of a new realism on the part of the administration when compared with the use of accounting manoeuvres and optimistic forecasts which had characterized the 1991 budget proposal . |
| 11 | Whilst swearing to uphold the country 's 1987 Constitution , he emphasised that his election marked a break with the past and promised to combat the greed and corruption which had characterized the county 's previous governments . |