Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of its success — the book quickly sold out its first edition of 60,000 — Laura dreaded the thought of another book which failed to represent the company as she saw it . |
| 2 | There were two appeals against the verdict , which failed to reverse the decision and in the early winter of 1961 a court receiver auctioned the assets of Highlander . |
| 3 | Football : Advertisement for small beer : Joe Lovejoy reports on a game which failed to quench the purists ' thirsts |
| 4 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 5 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 6 | In the Palaeozoic rocks there were other stalked filter-feeding echinoderms , which failed to survive the crisis at the end of the Permian , weathered by the crinoids . |
| 7 | It was assumed that spoken forms which failed to observe the rules of morphology and syntax considered appropriate to written forms were ‘ incorrect ’ and ‘ ungrammatical ’ . |
| 8 | Lance Owen of Kingston took care of the service ( £174.25 ) and secured the exhaust , but its only attempt to cure the creak was to adjust the power steering belt , which failed to solve the problem . |
| 9 | The contract is a kick in the teeth for British workers at Westinghouse Signal , which expected to clinch the £100 million deal . |
| 10 | Spokeswoman Captain Marcella Adams said the base , which planned to hold the event on May 29 and 30 , would normally have heard by now . |
| 11 | The main buyers were those plants which planned to delay the introduction of desulphurizing " scrubber " equipment . |
| 12 | The problem facing the Indian Board , which met to discuss the crisis earlier this week , is who to name as a replacement . |
| 13 | Belpan 's tax base was less than that of a medium-sized European market town , which made running the country a financial nightmare . |
| 14 | There were active liberal or socialist-influenced tenants ' and farmers ' movements in the interwar period which sought to improve the farmers ' lot . |
| 15 | A good deal of discussion focussed , in the early meetings , on whether and how to reduce the ‘ all-pervading ’ influence of the subject boards , and at its second meeting discussed an officers ' draft paper which sought to undermine the boards and considered the pros and cons of the CNAA relating primarily to institutions as a whole . |
| 16 | In 1983 Mr St John Stevas promoted a private member 's bill , The National Audit Bill , which sought to give the Comptroller and Auditor General access to the accounts of nationalized industries so that his staff could investigate them as they do the accounts of government departments . |
| 17 | The Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 , which sought to implement the Law Commission proposals , did not , therefore , eliminate the distinctions between conditions and warranties and innominate terms . |
| 18 | The movement towards caveat venditor , at least in consumer sales , was confirmed by the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 which sought to implement the recommendations of the Law Commission Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) . |
| 19 | This set out a pattern of Soviet policy in Far East and South East Asia in terms of a Soviet policy which sought to weaken the ties between the colonies and the colonial powers through the encouragement of nationalism and by capitalizing on the discontent caused by long periods of ‘ colonial oppression ’ and by disrupting the colonial economies either by armed action or by labour disorders so that the metropolitan powers would be deprived of revenue and resources . |
| 20 | Some of its most significant early relations were with the guild merchant , which sought to regulate the conditions of urban trade . |
| 21 | This view was endorsed in the School Management Task Force report ( DES 1990f ) , and by 1991 Leeds LEA had a policy and programme for management training ( Leeds City Council 1991 a ) which sought to address the management needs of all staff — heads , deputies , staff tutors , INSET coordinators , curriculum coordinators and probationers . |
| 22 | And this organization , which sought to protect the rights of the newly colonized , provided much of the original intellectual and moral impetus which led ultimately to the formation of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain . |
| 23 | Big Flame was based on the Italian revolutionary group Lutte Continua ( the struggle goes on ) , which sought to combine the autonomist belief in a loose network of Right-On groups with a separate political party which would guide them all . |
| 24 | On Aug. 23 the Minister of Home Affairs , S. B. Chavan , presented a bill to the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) which sought to prohibit the conversion of any place of worship that existed at the time of India 's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947 . |
| 25 | He eventually capitalized on his knowledge of Europe by publishing in 1796 both a set of five maps of the Rhine , Meuse , and Scheldt and a survey entitled A Developement of the Views and Designs of the French Nation , which sought to warn the English of certain French activities . |
| 26 | For example , Lord Crowther-Hunt considers that the Queen would be perfectly " justified " in withholding her consent from a bill which sought to abolish the House of Lords even if the government proposing this had secured a mandate through the manifesto set before the people at a general election . |
| 27 | Inter-war Britain was notable for a generation which sought to emphasize the principles and practicalities of the protection of natural beauty . |
| 28 | The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a plethora of government sponsored reports which sought to influence the way in which local authorities were organised and the services that they provided . |
| 29 | In late Victorian Britain , the law-makers were gripped by a clean-up fervour , not unlike what is happening today , which sought to make the country safe for women , children and the family . |
| 30 | The " no " voters rejected by 53 to 45 per cent the " yes " platform of proposals of Governor Rafael Hernández Colón and his ruling Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) which sought to maintain the Island 's autonomy . |