Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a junior doctor in hospitals in the late 1920s , I had under my care a doctor , then over 60 , who told me that when he was young in London , he knew of a doctor 's plate which conveyed this message to prospective patients : Medicine and advice fourpence , superior ditto sixpence . |
| 2 | This file , or one identical to it , had emerged the victor of a curious contest at the Exhibition between Turtons ' English Files and a French company which manufactured another brand of file . |
| 3 | There were British studios , like Rank 's Independent Producers or Ealing in the 1940s , that , for a time at least , produced a similarly productive working environment , providing constraints for directors and writers to work against , and dedicated script departments which produced competent material for them to work from . |
| 4 | ( 1979 ) produced isopleths of precipitation acidity for selected periods which revealed increasing acidity between 1955–6 and 1975–6 and an enlargement of the area affected by acid precipitation in eastern North America . |
| 5 | For example Camden social services department made public the findings of an independent review of their homes which revealed that lack of recreational activities and opportunities for choice , lack of training for staff and management difficulties were all interwoven ( Booth , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Henry VII himself supplemented the eyre with judicial proceedings of other kinds , such as the judicial inquiry in 1494 into offences in Pickering Forest , which revealed extensive destruction of vert and venison . |
| 7 | The pictures of bombing in Iraq which became familiar viewing during the Gulf War were taken from Buccaneers . |
| 8 | He masked the fear in his eyes with the vacant , subservient glaze which became second nature to military personnel . |
| 9 | In 1889 she published a Guide to District Nurses and Home Nursing which became essential reading for district nurses . |
| 10 | Gloucestershire there was an example of an arrest which led comprehensive intelligence on the suspect 's activities . |
| 11 | All these contradictions represent opportunities for curriculum managers , who are themselves products of an ancien régime which laid greater stress on the teacher as professional leader and entrepreneur than in most other countries . |
| 12 | In a climate of opinion which laid greater stress upon collective success than upon the fame or reputation of any one individual , could the desire for fame , which might impair the effectiveness of the army , survive ? |
| 13 | Did you see the poll published in the Sunday newspapers about public attitudes to AIDS which avoided any reference to the Terence Higgins Trust or any of the other gay support groups ? |
| 14 | The EC proposal , which met considerable opposition from a number of other countries , envisaged that the particular status of agriculture should be maintained , the objective being to improve existing rules rather than fundamentally alter them . |
| 15 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 16 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 17 | For much of Charles ' reign Constantinople was under the control of relatively ineffectual rulers , and had many internal disputes and factions which made imperial interest in Italy difficult to enforce . |
| 18 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 19 | Until the 1983–84 submission to the CNAA ( discussed below ) , for example , several new areas felt constrained and unconvinced by aspects of the operation ( especially timetabling ) which made perfect sense for a full-time course in science but considerably less for other kinds of demands . |
| 20 | The Muslim community in Bradford , where Yasmin comes from , is very strong , and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school . |
| 21 | By 1907 , the CUB , acting on a plan initiated by W. H. Beveridge , was busy opening exchanges in every London borough , each of which made special provision for women and juveniles , and provided vocational guidance for school-leavers through working in co-operation with the ASEA and the Education Department of the LCC . |
| 22 | I had not yet learnt that every German soldier from private upwards had had an elementary political education which made this sort of argument child 's play for him . |
| 23 | Caretaker wondered if there was something in the syntax of the Welsh language which made this sort of construction more acceptable in Welsh than it was in English . |
| 24 | However , following the two oil price shocks it was decided that the country 's vulnerability ( as Europe 's largest oil importer ) to crude price rises meant that a policy which made more use of the country 's abundant coal resources and reduced oil dependence should be followed . |
| 25 | History teaching had been developing along lines which made more use of reference and local source material , while IS , which involved history , science , geography , and religious education ( RE ) , had been concerned with providing greater primary/secondary continuity in the first-year curriculum , and with developing , through an interdisciplinary base , essential learning skills . |
| 26 | These are the companies which made heavy investment in the electronic transmitter cells which now cover 90 per cent of the country . |
| 27 | The affair was seized on by the Soviet conservative press , which made particular note of the implication in the deal that Rbs140,000 million was worth US$7,500 million , which suggested a calculation based on the black-market exchange rate . |
| 28 | The Anglo-Saxons felt the full force of both influences , which made English Christianity from the start strongly missionary in character . |
| 29 | In order to understand the press reporting of rape trials we need to concentrate on the few cases which got enormous publicity in 1985 . |
| 30 | Central government intervention in local government tendering began with the Local Government , Planning and Land Act 1980 which applied competitive tendering to local authority direct labour organisations ( DLO ) . |