Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accounting convention which divided spending into revenue ( current ) and capital expenditure was particularly susceptible to manipulation . |
| 2 | In their special Spanish sale on 28–29 May Christie 's London offered a portrait of Doña Maria Teresa de Vallabriga which failed to sell at £600,000 . |
| 3 | No shots were fired , but in an earlier action today , H M S Battleaxe fired warning salvos across the bows of an Iraqi ship which failed to stop for cargo inspection . |
| 4 | It was all a spoof , but taken for real by many viewers , particularly when cameramen collapsed and scratches mysteriously appeared on a girl 's face which became covered in blood and distorted . |
| 5 | It is certainly true that the most active social science departments gave rise to the approach to social science which became associated with participant observation , the more extensive use of the survey method as a means to examine attitudes and personality and , last but not least , the modern sociological use of the survey as a tool for the development of theory as in variable analysis . |
| 6 | There was Florey 's original material , which became known as Penicillin-I or Penicillin-F ( for Florey ) ; Penicillin-II or Penicillin-G ( because G came after F ) from the Squibb Laboratories ; Penicillin-III or Penicillin-X from the laboratories at Peoria ; and Penicillin-IV or Penicillin-K from the Abbot Laboratories . |
| 7 | Mackay had no love for the Jacobite cause and in spite of his defeat at the Battle of Killiecrankie , he was given the task of subduing the Highlands , where he built the fort at the head of Loch Linnhe which became known as Fort William . |
| 8 | The main national network , which became known as Idhaa ya Kiswahili ( ‘ The Swahili Service ’ ) , had as one of its main aims ‘ informing and educating public opinion ’ . |
| 9 | The sidings , which became known as Thornton Gate , opened with the arrival of the first coal train on September 23 1927 . |
| 10 | This process , which became known as impeachment , seems to have arisen by accident when de la Mare declared that he and his colleagues would maintain their charges in common . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , during October of 1756 , Anthony Tissington of Alfreton in Derbyshire , set men to work at Coniston on the westerly edge of the sett , that part which became known as Paddies ' End . |
| 12 | It has been mentioned earlier however , that with gunpowder , Roe modified the old 17th century hand chiselled level which became known as Cobbler 's Level . |
| 13 | Militarily stronger by ten to one , Israel made Abdallah agree to an armistice in April 1949 whereby he ceded thirty villages in and near Wadi Ara , in the area which became known inside Israel as the Little Triangle . |
| 14 | It was reported at the end of January that talks under UN mediation between the government and the FMLN which became deadlocked in September 1990 [ see p. 37707 ] , had resumed earlier in the month in Mexico City and in San José , Costa Rica , and were making progress . |
| 15 | He also wrote a two-volume work on The Architecture of Robert and James Adam ( 1922 ) , which led to work at Adam 's Royal Society of Arts and in 1925 to his being consultant to the eighth Earl of Jersey at Osterley Park . |
| 16 | But this is misleading in the sense that much of this expenditure did generate purchasing power in recipient countries , which led to demand for dollar goods , demand which was not effectively curtailed by the exchange controls . |
| 17 | The floor was ankle-deep , knee-deep soon in viscid , melted , and disjoined hydra which sought to set like glue . |
| 18 | The police imposed a change of route which involved marching to Craigavon Bridge via Duke Street , instead of Distillery Brae and Spencer Road , and to the Diamond via John Street and Foyle Street instead of Carlisle Road . |
| 19 | After some detailed survey work members of the Glasgow South branch ; Bill McMath and George Houston ( also assisted by QAI Jonathan Simmons ) including a night visit in the pouring rain which involved peering at cracks in the outer wall with a torch , a detailed proposal was submitted to the Council . |
| 20 | Which involved going to evening classes and er then back to work and this involved nights regular , so it was a bit a bit of a dash , sleeping , evening class and then catching a bus which the first one , nine o'clock and to the colliery and starting . |
| 21 | Sheila Danby spent most of her working life in education , latterly in adult literacy as part of Operation Upgrade which involved working in Soweto . |
| 22 | American sailors ate cranberries by the barrel load for their high vitamin C content , which helped to stave off scurvy . |
| 23 | It was an important part of the governmental machine , which helped to produce by negotiation , discussion , criticism , and occasional obstruction — a large body of law . |
| 24 | It would also improve upon January 's brutal monetary reform , which tried to deal with savings by confiscating some of them : the new plan would raise interest rates to encourage consumers to leave their money in the bank . |
| 25 | The behind-the-scenes manoeuvring came as the Bond corporate empire met renewed difficulties with the Australian Stock Exchange , which suspended trading in Bond Corp . |
| 26 | A collection of such material should enhance our knowledge of the factors which contributed to change in law and society . |
| 27 | in this case the medical evidence concluded that death was from crushing of the chest which prevented breathing with death resulting within 5 minutes . |
| 28 | Previous legislation , which came to force on January 1 , 1987 , permitted patients to see only their hospital records , but now the right has been extended to records made in all medical institutions , including records made by private practitioners . |
| 29 | The entire scene was compounded by the thunderous silence that covered the scene , save the wind which seemed to whisper in condolence . |
| 30 | She had a long , narrow and strong-boned face , its severity softened by her eyes which seemed to glow with laughter and sense . |