Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , the International Garden Festival site , which successfully attracted visitors in the initial year on a subsidised basis , has since remained problematic ( Parkinson and Evans , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them . |
| 3 | They point to the poster campaign it launched last September , through Ogilvy & Mather , which effectively relaunched Wisk as a mainstream colour care detergent , and the new label design as evidence of Lever 's determination to boost its sales . |
| 4 | Fighting as ‘ Jack Johnson ’ he overcame the barrier known as the ‘ colour line ’ which effectively forbade blacks from boxing whites and wrested the supreme prize under the most dramatic circumstances . |
| 5 | After months of debate the National Assembly on Dec. 17 adopted a new abortion law replacing that in force under communist rule ( and suspended in 1990 ) which effectively allowed abortion on demand . |
| 6 | They challenged the Home Secretary 's 1983 policies which effectively abolished parole for certain categories of prisoners , but did win the right , with the assistance of the European Commission for Human Rights to be legally represented at prison disciplinary hearings . |
| 7 | He was the nephew of King Idriss , who was deposed by the military coup of 1969 which eventually brought Kadhafi to power . |
| 8 | Was not ‘ cushion ’ the term which eventually became vogue for the extra help which was thrown over the poll tax time and again in a vain attempt to douse the flames of dissent . |
| 9 | The couple , who live locally , acquired and restored the 20-seater coach as a family keepsake , it was actually 's father who founded the Guy Motor Company which eventually became part of Leyland . |
| 10 | Yet others were situated in , or later moved to , places which eventually became towns with a full range of central place functions . |
| 11 | Bourgeois musical experience was largely privatized and domesticated ; working-class musical experience — formerly centred around collectively shared localities ( streets , pubs ) — shifted to framed public spaces which eventually became constituents of a national and international musical commodity market . |
| 12 | It was UNIP which eventually took control of the first independent government winning , in January 1964 , fifty-five seats to the ANC 's ten . |
| 13 | The second option , which naturally held attractions for the RPF parliamentarians , was met with total scorn by de Gaulle . |
| 14 | And sure enough they do panic and run amok , and ‘ the almost mystical terror which suddenly took hold of our authorities ’ completes the ruinous and negative side of the Gadarene story . |
| 15 | Many nationalized industries , which long posed problems for governments , not least in pay negotiations , were floated to the private sector . |
| 16 | There would have been no defence ( just as in Reg. v. Lawrence ) if the charge had been laid under section 15(1) and , as in Reg. v. Lawrence and the present case , it was the Crown 's resort to section 1(1) which alone gave rise to a legal problem . |
| 17 | Heaven 17 appropriated the jargon and paraphernalia of industry , presented themselves as a well-heeled corporation , offering ‘ Music Of Quality and Distinction ’ which suavely played pop at its own game . |
| 18 | Only other aircraft in the sale , was Slingsby Grasshopper glider XK824 , which only reached £650 in the bidding and was unsold . |
| 19 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 20 | Unlike previous Zetor gearboxes , which only had synchromesh on higher gears , the new tractor is all synchro . |
| 21 | Which only set Nigel off more , and it was some time before he could attempt an explanation . |
| 22 | Virtually nothing is known of Freeman 's early years ; he shrouded his early life in great mystery and even the details of his secondary schooling — which apparently took place at a boarding-school in north London — remained unknown to his closest relatives . |
| 23 | They described themselves as rusyny , a term which merely indicated descent from the inhabitants of the medieval principality of Rus ' . |
| 24 | The Pelican Guide proposes that accounts of the social context of literature are included in the volumes to suggest the factors which merely encouraged forms of literary production . |
| 25 | The courtyard design of Linlithgow was completed under his inspiration ; it was this architectural gem of a palace which so impressed Mary of Guise , whose admiration was by no means merely wifely tact . |
| 26 | The most active counties continued to be Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire which together provided 56% of the total number of classes and students . |
| 27 | This was partly due to the fact that I did n't really understand what I was supposed to be doing and partly because I had a very intricate felt-pen and biro decoration to complete on my pencil case ( which obviously took priority over maths work ) . |
| 28 | The Laban Centre , which finally gained approval for the country 's first BA in Dance , failed to obtain approval when initially submitted . |
| 29 | She concludes that , on balance , the RMCs have done an excellent job and that the most successful ones have been based on colleges or groups of colleges which already had pockets of energy and entrepreneurial spirit and like the South West RMC were closely linked with the communities they served . |
| 30 | Computer Reseller News and its vendor sources say Intel , which already bumped Pentium into the first quarter , will be delaying it until late next year because of those heat dissipation and manufacturing problems we told you about ( UX No 410 ) . |