Example sentences of "problem which [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Within days of taking office , she had invited Don Peters to explain the problems which had bedevilled the British vehicle plants during the sixties and seventies and to outline his company 's plan for the future .
2 They had excuses , or as they preferred to describe them , fair and reasonable explanations , for all the problems which had beset the Dublin plant .
3 According to official messages , the ‘ modernisers ’ still had the upper hand and the reform programme was set to continue in spite of the economic and social problems which had troubled the leaders throughout 1988 .
4 It was Liverpool 's housing and employment problems which had sparked the Toxteth race riots , and which led Michael Heseltine to launch a much-publicized new initiative at inner-city regeneration through more inward private investment .
5 There was a further feature of the birth rate problem which had concerned the eugenists in particular for many years .
6 But he did not find out what was the problem which had brought the jury back into court and it is therefore impossible to tell whether anything said by the judge resolved the problem or not , because no one knows what the problem was .
7 A minor problem which threatened to delay the second volume of Mary Leapor 's work was the epitaph [ see ML , 2 , 324 ] .
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