Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet others were situated in , or later moved to , places which eventually became towns with a full range of central place functions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The second option , which naturally held attractions for the RPF parliamentarians , was met with total scorn by de Gaulle . |
| 6 | Many nationalized industries , which long posed problems for governments , not least in pay negotiations , were floated to the private sector . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A journey which once took weeks by camel lasted half a day in a fast motor such as a Range-Rover , rarely more than four days in the most heavily laden truck . |
| 11 | The flats are the only relic of the lost Lake Bonneville , which once covered parts of Utah , Nevada and Idaho to a depth of 1,000 feet . |
| 12 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 13 | The inequalities in health debate has focused on identifying the extent to which socially generated variations in both health status and use of health services exist within and between populations . |
| 14 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 15 | Steps in the south-east corner of the Central Court led down into a well which was used , at least in the temple 's final days , for offerings : there were many small clay vases , one of which still had olives in it when excavated . |
| 16 | Java and Sumatra were the core of the Dutch empire which still had colonies in the West Indies as well . |
| 17 | From June onward warming through the ice set up circulation currents which gradually raised temperatures to a uniform 4°C throughout the water column ( Rigler , 1974 ) . |
| 18 | The closure was announced in a statement in Parliament which also revealed changes in store for most of the RAF 's other bases in the region . |
| 19 | Until the mid-nineteenth century , basket-makers were actively cutting willow at Beckley on Otmoor , a place which also sent water-lilies to Covent Garden . |
| 20 | South African Foreign Minister R. F. " Pik " Botha visited Taiwan on March 20-23 as part of an Asian tour which also included visits to Japan , South Korea and Singapore . |
| 21 | The visit was part of a European tour undertaken by Nguyen in late May and early June , which also included visits to Belgium , France , Germany and the Netherlands . |
| 22 | In London , the Greater London Council had similar responsibilities to the metropolitan counties , but the Metropolitan Police came directly under the Home Secretary , while through the Inner London Education Authority — which also included representatives from the Inner London Boroughs — it was directly involved in education within inner London . |
| 23 | Rice cultivation was more difficult in the dry zone , which also included parts of Hambantota and Badulla districts . |
| 24 | But I can not help wondering whether the dark mood of the ballet was at least partly influenced by Britten 's opera Peter Grimes , which also included episodes of fishermen mending their nets . |
| 25 | An investigation into food and wages paid in food was added , which also involved studies of animal size . |
| 26 | All had been part of the Reagan-Bush administration which illegally sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 27 | In doing so , it follows the pattern set by Guardian Royal Exchange ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 17 ) and Guinness ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 49 ) which both incorporated reviews by auditors Price Waterhouse in their interim reports . |
| 28 | During their holidays the two men investigated the glacial deposits and Old Red Sandstone of Caithness , Orkney , and Shetland , publishing papers ( 1879–84 ) for which both received awards from the Geological Society . |
| 29 | For some architects , the removal of regulations which both provided guidelines for behaviour and also limited the areas in which competition existed has provided a stimulus since they now feel able to compete more efficiently in a less restricted arena . |
| 30 | We shall see later in Part II that this decline of manufacturing employment was closely identified with the heavy growth of unemployment in the 1980s , and with its concentration in most industrial towns and cities outside the South East , places which typically had rates of unemployment of 14 to 20 per cent . |