Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The accommodationist states including Jordan , in order to satisfy domestic opinion — in Jordan 's case its East Bank Palestinian population — felt obliged to move into a common ‘ steadfastness ’ stance with the more radical Arab states , most of which agreed to pay money into a Jordanian-PLO Joint Fund for Steadfastness . |
| 2 | If the reason you left nursing in the first place was boredom or disillusionment , it may be that you had drifted into an environment which failed to take advantage of your best qualities . |
| 3 | In retrospect , it can be seen that NORP was a poorly planned venture which failed to take account of the poor infrastructure of Bangladesh and the vastness of the problem that it was meant to tackle . |
| 4 | Spartak remained unruffled in the face of a Liverpool onslaught which failed to transform possession into clear chances . |
| 5 | Then he set off the expense of having a debtor arrested in this way , which failed to produce payment of the debt against the sums he recovered . |
| 6 | This work , which sought to strip Christianity of its supernatural trappings and present Jesus as ‘ an incomparable man ’ , was perhaps the single most talked-about book of its age . |
| 7 | There Millett J having held that the part of a non-solicitation clause which gave protection to the plaintiff was valid but that the part which sought to give protection to an associated company of the plaintiff was invalid had then to decide whether the invalid part could be severed or whether the whole clause was invalid . |
| 8 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |
| 9 | This has certainly been the view of groups which sought to draw attention to the problems of the long-term unemployed and older workers — notably the Unemployment Alliance in the 1980s and now the Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment ( CAADE ) . |
| 10 | Proof came within a short time when in November 1983 more than five hundred deaf people from all over the country joined other disabled groups at Westminster in an impressive lobby in support of a Private Member 's Bill , introduced by Robert Wareing MP , which sought to make discrimination against all disabled people illegal . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State 's proposal runs contrary even to the better parts of Thatcherite philosophy , which sought to separate regulator from provider . |
| 12 | It was no coincidence that the majority of the French delegates were members of the little-known Le Societe Pereire , which sought to recognise Pereire as the first teacher of the deaf in that country — Pereire being a man who practised teaching by the oral method . |
| 13 | CD generally uses the term to embrace Utilitarianism and Malthusianism ( see MALTHUS ) , which sought to discourage marriage among the poorer classes , an attitude lampooned by CD in The Chimes , DS 57 . |
| 14 | The symbiotic relationship between low-trust industrial bargaining and a management strategy which sought to maximize productivity through extreme task fragmentation , created massive rigidities in work organization and equally complex institutional barriers to change . |
| 15 | But they were clearly under considerable stress when making their decision , which involved refusing consent for a vital operation for a baby with no other problems than those associated with Down 's Syndrome ; problems which once the operation had been conducted , would not prevent the child from an average life . |
| 16 | Although the question of autonomy was a complex and confusing one , Hornby contributed to the process of keeping seriously on the agenda that part of the CNAA 's role which involved delegating responsibility within the limits currently imposed on the CNAA , and expanding those limits as it became possible . |
| 17 | Not only were connections with the Labour Party broken but the Bradford Conference , against the advice of the NAC , decided to discontinue paying the Trade Union political levy ; to withdraw from membership of the Co-operative Party ; and to forbid ILP Members from holding any position in the Labour movement which involved giving support to the policies of the Labour Party . |
| 18 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 19 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 20 | A marketing plan was put in place which helped reduce dependence on the naval base , Faslane ; targeted other sources of revenue ; improved the hotel 's profile and instituted an effective staff training programme . |
| 21 | He went on to propose a Rainbow Curriculum — without actually reading it first — which tried to teach tolerance for all , but in the process had to discuss homosexuality with kids of eight . |
| 22 | He went on to propose a Rainbow Curriculum which tried to discuss homosexuality with kids of eight Parents are frustrated that schools have fancy ideas but do n't teach children to write or read |
| 23 | Pattern for the side vents of the 1895 coat , which unbuttoned to allow use of the sword belt . |
| 24 | The controversy concerning the bilateral relationship between Britain and the USA was a symptom of this wider problem , which came to involve competition from new airlines — especially from the third world and developing countries , rising fuel prices , and deregulation policies . |
| 25 | Religious hope flickers , as at Magnus Martyr , but the city crowds out the city churches , and going to the apparent sources of the religious life which seemed to hold promise in Lower Thames Street , Eliot found himself unable to sustain hope . |
| 26 | " I do n't see why not , " said Mrs Maugham , with a tight smile which seemed to indicate pleasure in her daughter 's confusion . |
| 27 | But one morning at breakfast he was reading music and listening to the tune in his head , when he heard a musical voice which seemed to become part of his tune . |
| 28 | The new Turkish Government of Suleyman Demirel came to power in October 1991 on a platform which pledged to prevent torture in custody . |
| 29 | In this sense , peace-making was a classic segmentary affair which happened to make use of those modern aids which lay to hand — transcripts of court proceedings , telephones and planes , for example . |
| 30 | The meeting which followed took place in the parish centre . |