Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , many organisations have been created which effectively avoided confronting the government . |
| 2 | These proposals for ‘ top-down ’ changes , which effectively sought to redraw the service boundaries , would probably achieve little , however , unless the real operational problems of delivering the service to individual clients were also tackled . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , of course I did — and I can pop down to the church and see you come out , ’ she offered impulsively , which thankfully seemed to satisfy the other girl . |
| 4 | Francis Mulhern has argued that Scrutiny developed and propagated for the profession of English studies an ideological framework suited to the maintenance of a talent-governed career structure which eventually came to dominate the profession as a whole . |
| 5 | The plane loomed drunkenly above them like an abandoned toy , which only seemed to magnify the tragedy and their miraculous escape . |
| 6 | She loved the country life of the estate and could have been entirely happy were it not for Stephen 's habitual absences which only seemed to emphasise the constant presence of his mother . |
| 7 | While working class women increasingly went out to work , usually out of economic necessity , philanthropists and policy makers increasingly urged them to pay more attention to their duties as wives and mothers , which only tended to exacerbate the difficulties they experienced . |
| 8 | A film which apparently did touch the spirit was King Kong , though we do not know whether Jack found it quite as exciting as Warnie did : ‘ There were astounding representations of the various prehistoric monsters , ’ Warnie confided breathlessly to his diary . |
| 9 | ( They have also recognized the political virtues of pluralistic multi-party democracy , which pluralism appeared to celebrate while Marxists previously derided it as ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ which merely served to mystify the reality of class oppression . ) |
| 10 | The second was the decision of the American Supreme Court that they should divest themselves of monopoly control of the cinema chains which , as Heston said , was in hindsight a death blow which merely served to hasten the financial decline of each and every studio . |
| 11 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 12 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 13 | Broadly speaking , Swann provided a liberal , semi-official legitimation for tackling issues of racism ( or , more accurately , prejudice ) and what it coyly referred to as ‘ cultural pluralism ’ in all schools , including the so-called all-white schools which hitherto had maintained the stance of ‘ No problem ( i.e. blacks ) here ’ . |
| 14 | The subsequent lengthy coalition negotiations had revealed the preference of some ÖVP members for a coalition with the right-wing Liberal Party ( FPÖ ) , which together had formed the government in 1983-87 . |
| 15 | It rejected the idea that the associated companies which together did have a countrywide business were in any way relevant . |
| 16 | The Labour Party warned against taking part in any such movement which obviously threatened to disturb the balance maintained at Party Conference by the union block vote . |
| 17 | As the Legal Aid scheme was given to the Law Society to administer in 1949 and it had also been responsible for the voluntary and statutory schemes in 1959 it was quite logical that the Law Society should also run the new advice scheme and that it should use the local and regional structure which already existed to administer the legal aid scheme . |
| 18 | It follows that a society which had removed capitalism , but which nevertheless sought to retain the benefits of science and the flexibility of money , would still be faced with the problems of these intrinsic contradictions of modern life . |
| 19 | In the end there was long and controversial litigation , which nevertheless failed to establish the rights that Kagan sought . |
| 20 | Green 's memorandum reflected the WEA 's dissatisfaction with its original 1932 representation on the RAC in that although the District was recognised by the Board of Education as the most important providing body for Chapter III courses in the region , it had less than 25% of the committee 's membership which thus failed to recognise the WEA 's national or regional status . |
| 21 | Caught by the uplift of hot air from the fluorescent tubes , all the smoke was drawn into the hood and onto the water 's surface , which just happened to have a protein skimmer waiting to mix it into solution . |
| 22 | Singly and in groups , in a variety of motorised transport , ranging from thirty-ton sixteen wheelers to private cars , they were converging on their Operations HQ — which just happened to bear a remarkable resemblance to the County Sheriff 's office in Rockford ! |
| 23 | Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year . |
| 24 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 25 | The intention was always to develop the College as a learning community , which deliberately sought to emphasise the common experiences of working-class people through the full use of the residential setting by |
| 26 | This quickened the growth of an urban proletariat in the mid-nineteenth century , which gradually came to develop the collective organisations ( unions and political parties ) necessary to struggle against exploitation . |
| 27 | Results announced on Oct. 6 showed that 35 seats had been taken by outspoken critics of the government , described by the Washington Post as " drawn from a diverse group of Islamists , secular liberals and traditional politicians " , 15 of whom were said to be from districts which traditionally had supported the ruling family . |
| 28 | This marked a significant departure from previous foreign policy priorities which traditionally had made the Soviet Union the first place to be visited by a new Prime Minister . |
| 29 | The discouraging effects of prolonged unemployment , experience in the labour market with employers and official intermediaries , public statements by political and economic commentators , politicians , and employers about the future of employment are all part of a social process of exclusion , which probably began to set the agenda in the minds of individual older workers in the After Redundancy study even before the redundancy itself took place . |
| 30 | Would it have been a good tactic to try and exploit adult hostility towards this group on account of their delinquent activities , rather than highlight their racist involvements which clearly did have a measure of adult support ? |