Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Gutenberg Galaxy was the invention of the printing press which came just in time for the Reformation . |
| 12 | By the beginning of 1941 it was the monarchist lobby which seemed most in need of this reminder . |
| 13 | To abandon the Penge section , which suffered heavily from bus competition . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | This chapter will start by looking at the potential for politicisation in later-Stuart England , and show that most of the issues which divided the parties at this time had roots which dug deep in society . |
| 17 | Additional samples from the United Arab Emirates ( Jebel Barakah ) and Kenya were collected , but no bone was found in the pellets from Kenya , which consisted entirely of invertebrate remains , and the pellet sample from UAE has not been analysed separately ( see Append Table 8 ) . |
| 18 | He enlisted in 1939 with a Lowland Territorial light anti-aircraft regiment , which arrived early in North Africa . |
| 19 | Away from the coastal marshes , the grasslands of lowland England consisted of clay vales , and heaths and forests , which differed radically in wealth and social structure . |
| 20 | The quatrain poems bind up such sympathies with a way of thinking which owed much to anthropology and Eliot 's growing wish to include in his work the worlds of both the savage and the city . |
| 21 | Gone was the natural , below-shoulder , slightly fly-away look , and in its place was a dramatically side-parted bob , which shelved sharply to chin level . |
| 22 | His version of mortalism distinguished between the soul , remaining with the body till the Last Judgement , and the spirit , which God quickened only in the elect and which returned straight to heaven . |
| 23 | It was the last Labour government which spent more on defence than the NHS . |
| 24 | This absence results primarily from the assumption that the domestication of African plants was a late and secondary development , which began well after wheat and barley agriculture was established in Egypt , about 6,400yrBP . |
| 25 | The contract which began just before Christmas last year covers 67 schools run by North Yorkshire County Council . |
| 26 | Those who complain about such evil seduction usually do not have a great experience of the real world which existed long before TV and continued alongside it , sometimes being reflected by it , but always more horrific than TV . |
| 27 | The shortfall density algorithms , which worked outwards from seed words , were more successful , finding the correct interpretation in half of the ten trials . |
| 28 | This was a work which evolved almost by accident , when a boy swinging playfully from a lamp post near a wall covered in graffiti , challenged the artist to draw him . |
| 29 | This was a work which evolved almost by accident , when a boy swinging playfully from a lamp post near a wall covered in graffiti , challenged the artist to draw him . |
| 30 | They all believed that several corresponding processes could be identified , especially in the field of kinship , which went automatically in parallel with technological evolution . |