Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official receiver has been called into the firm , which ceased trading last June . |
| 2 | While the Conciliation Committee fiddled , a conflagration threatened at Liverpool which promised to set all Britain 's ports alight . |
| 3 | His expression wicked , he continued the stare which seemed to strip poor McAllister of her clothing , a stare so cruel that Dr Neil immediately saw its import and began to bridle at the sight , putting out a protective hand to his beloved , to feel her tremble beneath it . |
| 4 | The first half of the 18th century had seemed kind enough : improved climatic conditions and better harvests had combined with the disappearance of bubonic plague to help curtail the mortality crises which had beset Northern Europe up until then . |
| 5 | Russia 's intended sale of diesel submarines to Iran , which had aroused strong US opposition , was delayed as a result of a dispute over trade payments , according to a Russian announcement on Sept. 25 . |
| 6 | Prior to the rioting the Dinkins administration had been widely congratulated on successfully avoiding the disturbances which had affected many US cities in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots of April-May 1992 . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven faced severe criticism after he commented lightly on Nov. 6 , 1989 , on the extent of devastation and relief effort following Typhoon " Gay " which had struck southern Thailand on Nov. 3-4 . |
| 8 | He stood , in Tolkien 's view , for all that was good in the Dark Ages — for the heroic awareness of heroic fallibility which Tolkien thought he could detect in Beowulf and in Maldon , for the spark of virtue which had made Anglo-Saxon England ripe for conversion ( a process carried out without a single martyrdom ) . |
| 9 | These included , retreating through northern Yugoslavia , the remains of the German Army Group E , which had controlled south-eastern Europe under the command of Gen Alexander Loehr , and which , with its anti-Communist allies , were anxious to surrender to the British rather than to Communist forces . |
| 10 | These in turn prompted greater resistance , and eventually a successful uprising against the proprietary in 1689 , fourteen years after the death of Cecil Calvert , which had occurred 30 November 1675 in London . |
| 11 | In the course of visits to Prague , the Czechoslavakian capital , and Bratislava by French President François Mitterrand on Sept. 13-14 and by United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 16-18 , both leaders expressed their countries ' regret at having signed the 1938 Munich agreement , which had allowed Nazi Germany to dismember Czechoslovakia . |
| 12 | Other EFTA countries also began to consider the possibility of EC membership [ see pp. 38158 ; 38444 ] , which tended to undermine ongoing EC-EFTA negotiations on a common European economic area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ] . |