Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE are investigating the cause of a fire which badly damaged a large mill last night . |
| 2 | A single-union agreement was negotiated with the Amalgamated Engineering Union ( AEU ) , which effectively provided a no-strike deal for Nissan . |
| 3 | Two of his most memorable innings came in one-day internationals , the 138 not out in the 1979 World Cup final and the 189 not out at Old Trafford in 1984 which single-handedly transformed a desperate situation into a winning one , and which will surely never be forgotten by anyone who saw it . |
| 4 | Hudson , the 26-year-old Natal opener , would not have noticed , rapt as he was in a deep reverie of concentration and technique which eventually produced a monumental 163 off 384 balls in nearly 8¾ hours . |
| 5 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 6 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 7 | What intrigued me most , however , was the arrangement of four dangling neck-ties , like swaying cobras , which only needed a squatting snakecharmer to really hypnotise . |
| 8 | Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter . |
| 9 | The clearest example is Charterhouse which relied on the exploitation of lead and silver from the Mendips ; mining occurred over an extensive area , largely to the south-east of the town , which apparently possessed a complex street system and a small amphitheatre . |
| 10 | The accumulation of an ever-increasing number of empirical case studies which together comprise(d) a broadening data base to describe users , activities and patterns of use in relation to the existing supply of opportunities . |
| 11 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 12 | Good public relations were made a priority , so that the atmosphere surrounding the team was always cordial , which obviously had a beneficial effect on the players . |
| 13 | One fourth-year student at C explained to me that several experiments conducted in the lab in the first term of the year could not be written up until the second term , after the theory had been presented in the lecture course , which obviously meant a tremendous backlog of work to catch up on . |
| 14 | And then found her thoughts , which desperately needed a new direction , turning slowly towards the mill-school . |
| 15 | She showed me how to cover the cloth with an embroidery stitch which finally created a small , neat , round button . |
| 16 | In the case of socialist parties , which gave the original impetus , the party was very largely an extension of an existing mass movement into the sphere of electoral politics , whereas conservative and liberal parties , which already had a strong representation in parliament and government , created their mass organization mainly from above , under the control of the parliamentary leaders . |
| 17 | Linked to the disposal of the Sun was a takeover of the Mirror Group by the papermaking conglomerate Reed International , which already had a large shareholding in the Mirror . |
| 18 | In Continental Can , the Court ruled that a company which already held a dominant position in the Common Market could be treated as exploiting it abusively so as to infringe Article 86 , if it strengthened its dominance by taking over a competitor . |
| 19 | In the Continental Can decision in 1973 the European Court held that a company which already held a dominant position in the Common Market or a substantial part of it could be treated as exploiting it abusively so as to infringe Article 86 , if it moved significantly towards monopoly by taking over a competitor . |
| 20 | Balfour 's Act moreover transferred to those same county councils the duty to provide rate support for the denominational schools , which nevertheless kept a considerable degree of autonomy and their particular religious character . |
| 21 | He raised his hand , and with brusque , impersonal fingers which nevertheless had a surprising lightness of touch he felt the edges of the cut de Guichet 's whip had left on the smooth cheek . |
| 22 | Thus the London weavers , an economically depressed group , but one which nevertheless contained a high preponderance of Nonconformists , rallied behind the Whig government at the time of the Sacheverell affair and helped the trained bands suppress High Church crowds in the City . |
| 23 | Much of it was conducted from her own room , which soon acquired a shrine-like notoriety , both on account of its furnishings and its occupant . |
| 24 | This was partly for the reasons given above , but also due to the very large Conservative majority in the hereditary House of Lords , which soon rejected a Liberal attempt to amend the 1902 Education Act . |
| 25 | Kilmarnock was held in reserve , but , as the day collapsed , he rode forward into the Stuart Second Line , which soon became a bedraggled ribbon neither in the van nor the rear . |
| 26 | Superbly sited south-facing slopes adjacent to Villedommange which deservedly earned a vital extra per cent in 1985 , climbing from 89% to 90% and thus premier cru status . |
| 27 | Some markets , which once had a homogeneous character , have tended to splinter into a variety of consumer groups , each with different tastes and preferences ; for instance , see Box 16.1 . |
| 28 | which once spanned a great American river |
| 29 | BT , which yesterday announced a six-month pre-tax profit of over Pounds 1 billion , admitted the sales ploy was ‘ an error ’ . |
| 30 | This was certainly true of the majority of studies before and even till the 1970s , which usually adopted a social anthropological approach ( Arensberg and Kimball , 1940 ) to static or declining farm communities ( Davies , 1970 ) and even by 1 97 1 it was possible for Franklin ( 1 97 1,1 2 ) to argue that ‘ the peasantry , though diminishing in number and importance , still forms the largest single category within the rural community throughout Europe ’ . |