Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in all such complicated and protracted events , both had right on their side at times which only served to perpetuate feelings of grievance . |
| 2 | The first person she met when she walked through the backstage door was Josh , and , if the situation had n't been so terrible , his expression — which somehow managed to combine outrage , amazement and sheer blessed relief — would have been positively comical . |
| 3 | I was n't inclined to linger anyway ; the day I arrived I caught a bus in the square which just happened to have Collioure on the front . |
| 4 | It was his left ankle which always seemed to cause problems . |
| 5 | As she hurried upstairs to the bedroom , which still seemed to hold Leo 's presence , she tried not to indulge in daydreams that would in all probability prove to be no more substantial than the rainbows she 'd witnessed earlier . |
| 6 | MacArthur , living legend and darling of the China Lobby which still hoped to see Chiang Kai-Shek back in China , returned to a public uproar which was definitely in his favour . |
| 7 | In June 1991 the government introduced a draft Pact of Progress , which controversially sought to tie wage rises to productivity ; a deadline for union agreement on the plan was set for the end of September [ see p. 38114 ] . |
| 8 | We heard a lot about the politicisation of the universities in the late 60s and early 70s : academic life in Germany was punctuated by demonstrations and strikes , which also helped to disrupt university life . |
| 9 | The growth of domestic demand was also boosted by the connection of many new consumers : the Boards naturally gave priority to the new estates and ‘ pre-fabs ’ of the postwar housing drive which urgently needed to have electricity connected . |
| 10 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 11 | At times , too , they shot Germans , even in the city , which inevitably led to savage repercussions . |
| 12 | This was the era of competitive capitalism and the laisser-faire state which simply sought to guarantee freedom of contract and trade at the same time as it dismantled the restrictive apparatus of the feudal economy and secured public order at home and defence from abroad . |
| 13 | We might say that Love 's Cure produces transgression precisely in order to contain it , and in the most insidiously ideological way : the deviant desire which initially appeared to contradict nature is reconstituted by nature in accord with her ( ? ) order . |
| 14 | On May 26 the High Court dismissed the action against the INEC , which subsequently began to issue registration forms to prospective parties . |