Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misty spray shrouded the sheer rock walls which plunged out of sight beneath our feet , and the recoiling backwash of the seas was heaped with fluffy spume as if some giant hand had emptied a mammoth packet of detergent there . |
| 2 | A senior officer , when employed , was able to place young men in the line of command by securing their entry as midshipmen , an appointment which became increasingly in demand with the expansion of the navy during the wars against France at the end of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 3 | Professor Cuttino has concluded that the peace of paris ‘ which re-created the feudal relationship which led eventually to war , was the result of English commitments towards Sicily and the desire to secure wealthy territory ’ . |
| 4 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 5 | This is not to claim that the war was totally unintended , but that national leaders had become caught in an irrational process which led inevitably to war . |
| 6 | It obviously was n't just a quarrel which got out of hand , or robbery with violence . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps some drunken jape which got out of hand , or perhaps a calculated act of attempted murder . |
| 8 | They trooped inside and followed Phrynius down a shabby hall , then through another door to a larger room which had the shutters pulled down against the sun and which smelled slightly of ammonia and sulphur . |
| 9 | Curious how the same thought had struck him , McLeish reflected , as he looked properly round the warm , untidy comfort of Miss Williams ‘ s sitting-room , which smelled cheerfully of woodsmoke and wet dog . |
| 10 | Lydia skirted it and took to a mountain path which meandered nonchalantly between rowan and hazel trees before stopping to present the traveller with a view of the valley 's close . |
| 11 | The second was a law enforcement action brought by the Crown ; he referred in particular to such an action brought under a statute which provided expressly for enforcement of a provision of the statute by civil proceedings by the Crown , which was the position in the Hoffmann-La Roche case [ 1975 ] A.C. 295 where the Crown was proceeding pursuant to a provision of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices ( Inquiry and Control ) Act 1948 . |
| 12 | His gruffness , which stemmed partly from reserve , was , however , tempered by jovial outbursts and by real kindness , and his bluff exterior belied a connoisseur of silver and antiques . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it was the economic climate , as much as the renewed trade union and working-class support for Labour , which contributed significantly to Labour 's victory in the 1929 General Election . |
| 14 | It was subscriptions from Friends through the Committee for Sufferings which contributed substantially to funding propaganda efforts in Europe in the 1820s and 1830s including the translation of existing materials into various languages and the production of new items for European readers . |
| 15 | The Gutenberg Galaxy was the invention of the printing press which came just in time for the Reformation . |
| 16 | League tables of exam results published today are being roundly condemned — even by some of those schools which came out on top . |
| 17 | We had one particularly bad sexual harassment case which came out of West Belfast a couple of years ago , which I think was a landmark in the recognition by the courts that women can not be treated with indignity and in the way that that girl was treated . |
| 18 | TRIMDON Grange Workingmen 's Club , which came out of receivership three years ago , is aiming to become one of the most popular clubs in the area . |
| 19 | ‘ Concept research ’ , followed by an omnibus quantitative survey , produced a brief for the dummy which came out in favour of the more ‘ downmarket ’ left-wing Mail on Sunday , rather than the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ . |
| 20 | Even Dale 's ( 1969 ) book which came out in favour of co-educational schooling , recognized that girls were academically less successful in such an environment . |
| 21 | Although much of the dissent of 1855 and early 1856 was to be found in obscure memoranda written by one bureaucrat for another , manuscripts circulated by hand among the intelligentsia , and a journal which came out in faraway London , the Russian government also had reason to worry about dissent with a high public profile . |
| 22 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 23 | Dog of the Month was Mally Woods ' High Noon Away , which came back after injury to win four and finish second in its five outings . |
| 24 | By the beginning of 1941 it was the monarchist lobby which seemed most in need of this reminder . |
| 25 | The place itself , the arrangement of those low , recently rebuilt stone farms and the few mud and wattle cottages , the eternal comfort of the lake 's shape and colours which seemed not to mirror but to temper her mood , the rise of fells which gave her sensibility its reach . |
| 26 | To abandon the Penge section , which suffered heavily from bus competition . |
| 27 | He also lavishly praised the king , James IV , for his learning , love of his religion , humanity and political skill , although he expressed grave and prophetic doubts about the courage which toppled over into foolhardiness in war . |
| 28 | Wright , who at 37 chortles about being one of NZ 's so-called ‘ young guns ’ , five years ago probably would have caught one which dropped just in front of him at gully . |
| 29 | A senior manager at AT&T , one American organization which experimented extensively with job enrichment , was quoted as saying , ‘ This company has lost too many people who are still with us ’ ( Ford , 1969 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ It was laid on London clay which dried out in summer and became very muddy in winter , ’ Claudia explained . |