Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | conducted a further study ( experiment 1 c ) that was almost identical to the first but which failed to yield any evidence for context-specificity . |
| 2 | It may be noted that the experiments by Siegel ( 1970 ) , James ( 1971 ) , and Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) , which failed to find any loss of latent inhibition at longer intervals , all gave repeated presentations of the target stimulus in pre-exposure ; that is , they gave training likely to establish a context — target association . |
| 3 | For example , Proposition 13 , which sought to curtail local government expenditure , can be related to antipathy towards property taxation . |
| 4 | In spite of a number of important publications in the early 1980s which sought to take Edwardian Conservatism seriously , notably the work of Geoffrey Searle , Alan Sykes , and Gregory Phillips , the Conservative party remained the Cinderella of Edwardian historiography , languishing in the shadows while its ugly sisters , the Liberal and Labour parties , hogged the limelight . |
| 5 | The accord , which sought to end political violence , was agreed by 31 parties , including religious and business groups . |
| 6 | Act 1919 , which encouraged adjacent districts to co-ordinate their plans , and the Town and Country Planning Act 1932 , which sought to encourage local action to regulate activities in both the town and county ( Sheail 1981 ) . |
| 7 | No mention of private Bills would be complete without paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest ( Sir P. McNair-Wilson ) for the way in which he chaired the Committee which sought to untangle this web . |
| 8 | In 1525 , parliament was sufficiently alarmed by ‘ the damnable opinions of heresy ’ of ‘ the heretic Luther and his disciples ’ to pass the first of the acts which sought to prevent Lutheran literature being brought into the kingdom . |
| 9 | The joint efforts of Swire 's , Jardine Matheson , and the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank ( which provided unstinting financial support ) enabled Hong Kong to rise from its rubble and become one of the commercial successes of the eastern world . |
| 10 | At that time we were also building a similar data base on another CAD system , which involved re-writing all software to suit . |
| 11 | Phil Judd , of Ski Tech Systems , pulled off the deal which involved supplying enough matting to lay a 200m piste . |
| 12 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 13 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
| 14 | That famous churchman Arnold of Rugby put a stamp upon independent education which helped to produce this consequence . |
| 15 | The well-established practice , which helped to avoid wrongful identification and risks of libel action , should not be departed from for the benefit of the comfort and feelings of defendants . |
| 16 | They were loath to convict , especially in cases which seemed to contradict common law . |
| 17 | Will the Chancellor assist businesses in making their investment plans by telling us whether he has revised his growth forecast for this year in the light of the Prime Minister 's statements in his new year interview , which seemed to cast considerable doubt on the growth forecasts given earlier ? |
| 18 | He walked down the steep hill from the car park between rows of boarding houses which seemed to prop each other up against the slope : stone-built houses with bay windows , tiny front gardens and the inevitable signboards — SEA-VIEW , HILLSIDE , BELLA VISTA , MALABAR … |
| 19 | Among themselves , royalty formed a kind of gigantic family which seemed to tie European society together into one great unit … |
| 20 | There was also a sanitary argument which seemed to have scientific backing , even if evidence was lacking . |
| 21 | Twelve minutes later Steven Pressley grabbed a scrappy equaliser which seemed to end any prospect of an upset . |
| 22 | Twelve minutes later Steven Pressley grabbed a scrappy equaliser which seemed to end any prospect of an upset . |
| 23 | Unfortunately for the West any move which seemed to strengthen that country created problems with its rival , Egypt . |
| 24 | In Kwangju a protester received a near-fatal beating by police in an incident which served to give fresh impetus to the protests . |
| 25 | In March 1922 a monopoly was granted to a new state advisory body on the publication of textbooks , but through the rest of 1922 it was powerless to stem the growing tide of texts from private publishers which threatened to drown official party ideology in educational affairs . |
| 26 | The company , which returned to profit last year following a rigorous re-structuring programme ( CI No 2,010 ) , saw a sharp improvement in its continental European operations where revenues grew 17% , taking into account the fall in sterling . |
| 27 | In the meantime , the insurance industry has set up Pool Re , which began collecting premium income in January . |
| 28 | With OEM deals already struck at Hewlett-Packard Co and Silicon Graphics Inc , Natick , Massachusetts-based Atria Software Inc , developer of ClearCase , a Unix software configuration management system which began shipping last month , has raised $4.1m in a second round of venture funding : two of the firms , Marix Partners and Sigma Partners were original investors in Atria back in 1990 , they 're joined by Highland Capital Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures . |
| 29 | As a result of a concerted campaign , which included replacing nine area offices with four regional ones and which is still continuing , a clear six per cent was slashed off the 1991 cost base , bringing the cost ratio down from 19.2 per cent to 15.9 per cent in 1992 . |
| 30 | After Walesa 's election measures which included permitting private broadcasting stations to operate were taken to free the media from state control . |