Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his place , the Shah had very little idea of what was happening , Shorn of more and more of his powers but Mossadeq , who tended to ignore him , the Shah retreated into alternating bouts of gloom and high spirits which involved playing practical jokes on guests . |
| 32 | Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others . |
| 33 | It is as though the programme of Galileo and Locke , which involved discarding secondary qualities ( colour , taste , etc. ) in favour of primary qualities ( the quantities of classical mechanics ) , had been carried a stage further and these primary qualities had themselves become secondary to the property of potentia in which they all lay latent . |
| 34 | ‘ We learnt a lot during this first phase , which involved giving detailed presentations to technical experts — and our competitors ’ , he added . |
| 35 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 36 | Among their little exercises in search of conclusions was that which involved asking 55 schoolchildren to list expressions meaning stupid person . |
| 37 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 38 | What you can not turn to with such pride is BR 's printed timetable , which changed format several times during the eighties and ended as a poor thing , well below continental standards . |
| 39 | In a hard-hitting editorial , the journal 's editors challenge the effectiveness of the Zimbabwe government 's new Economic Structural Adjustment Programme ( ESAP ) which promised to create more jobs and opportunities for ordinary people . |
| 40 | While the Conciliation Committee fiddled , a conflagration threatened at Liverpool which promised to set all Britain 's ports alight . |
| 41 | Spenser represented real cultural preoccupations in his texts but these representational forms became vehicles which helped enforce cultural categories and the apparent identities they confer . |
| 42 | That famous churchman Arnold of Rugby put a stamp upon independent education which helped to produce this consequence . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Kenny Scharf belongs to a group of East Village artists which came to notice ten years ago and included Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat . |
| 45 | But it was Eusebius who rounded off these hints into an image which came to dominate fourth-century minds . |
| 46 | Nevertheless there was one event of this year which seemed to lift such worries front him , and to help cure all his infirmities except that of age . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | They were loath to convict , especially in cases which seemed to contradict common law . |
| 49 | Although the surprise which seemed to greet these changes now seems misplaced , they represented significant alterations in the way heads and others were to manage education . |
| 50 | 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 ? |
| 51 | We heard immensely jolly Italian instrumental pieces , solo p'i-p'i works ( this a slender stringed precursor of the guitar ) which seemed to condense whole operas into minutes , and poignant 9th and 13th century song . |
| 52 | De Gaulle added economic policy to the goals of political union , which seemed to menace those communities . |
| 53 | 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 … |
| 54 | Among themselves , royalty formed a kind of gigantic family which seemed to tie European society together into one great unit … |
| 55 | There was also a sanitary argument which seemed to have scientific backing , even if evidence was lacking . |
| 56 | Twelve minutes later Steven Pressley grabbed a scrappy equaliser which seemed to end any prospect of an upset . |
| 57 | Twelve minutes later Steven Pressley grabbed a scrappy equaliser which seemed to end any prospect of an upset . |
| 58 | In short , the basic instinct which seemed to tell many people that they needed a good ‘ clean out ’ , and that nasty things could happen while waste matter lingered around in the body , seems to have been largely correct . |
| 59 | An architecture which seemed to fulfill these requirements was the Chart parsing system ( Thompson and Ritchie 1984 ) . |
| 60 | Unfortunately for the West any move which seemed to strengthen that country created problems with its rival , Egypt . |