Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 2 | The Labour Party had Ramsay MacDonald 's voice and presence , the loyalty of much of the bunkered working class , and a manifesto which avoided both the advantages and disadvantages of precision . |
| 3 | But the Russians had their own grand plan which made even the North American transcontinental schemes and the Cape to Cairo dream pale into insignificance . |
| 4 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 5 | A tin of rings and a ten shilling note , a woodshed and an oak tree , an innocence , never to be reclaimed , a shock which changed even the ways of looking at the ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 6 | They created an egg from which came forth the sun , who fashioned mankind and gave order to the world . |
| 7 | Other achievements included leading a Halifax squadron to attack the Tirpitz , only to crash in Norway and escape to England via Sweden to fight again and , of course , the creation and leading of the Pathfinders , which reduced dramatically the bombing errors of the less experienced crews to create a more viable bombing campaign , which itself helped shorten World War Two . |
| 8 | These were generally recognised to involve no large changes in technology , but there was considerable potential from a series of small innovations , which reduced both the capital and operating costs of generating equipment . |
| 9 | Added to this there was a belief in the economies of scale of large organisations — hence the 1970 White Paper on the Reorganisation of Central Government and the 1972 Local Government Act which reduced substantially the number of local authorities creating much larger organisations . |
| 10 | Therefore , new Protestant and Catholic trade unions were organised which rejected both the class war concepts and the optimistic socialist utopianism of the secular unions , with the result that three rival trade union centres were created ( Albeda , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | Chancellor Franz Vranitzky in late March carried out a minor Cabinet reshuffle which affected only the posts held by his own Social Democratic Party ( SPÖ ) . |
| 12 | He inflicted the first wound to Taylor 's hopes by conceding a penalty equaliser against the Dutch at Wembley and was also criticised for goals by Poland and Norway which threw away the points that would by now have left qualification a formality . |
| 13 | The effect of section 87 is to ensure that a qualified member of the tenant 's family who has made his home with the tenant shall not lose his home when the tenant dies but shall succeed to that home and to the secure tenancy which protected both the tenant and the successor while the tenant was alive and which shall continue to protect the successor after the death of the tenant . |
| 14 | The basic dimension of a mill was its width which determined both the length and the height , and which was itself determined by the length of the cotton-spinning ‘ mule ’ . |
| 15 | But it was the railway which pressed forward the industrialization of the United States and of parts of Europe and which confirmed the continental power of Europeans in North America , Asia , Australasia , and Africa . |
| 16 | With the rocket 's armaments he rigged up an explosive which killed both the crew and the people of Dido . |
| 17 | One daughter was triumphantly married into the Scottish aristocracy and the family thus connected through succeeding generations to the net of blood ties which included both the Fairleys and the house of Mountbatten-Windsor . |
| 18 | The procession , which included only the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Kent from the Royal Family , arrived at the chapel in pouring rain . |
| 19 | In descending order of size the PCR products corresponded to an 800 bp product in which AD1 is spliced ; a 500 bp product in which AD1 and repeat 11 are spliced ; and finally a 250 bp product which included only the repeat 10 and repeat 13 sequences . |
| 20 | So it was that the agreement on which the first National Government was formed was ignored by the King , who granted a dissolution under conditions which broke both the letter and the spirit of the agreement . |
| 21 | The embarrassing Dylan incident , which shocked both the audience and TV viewers by its insensitivity , is the first example of multi-aid . |
| 22 | The Bush shed was in turn supplanted by an even more abbreviated form , the butterfly shed , which covered only the platforms . |
| 23 | He trusted that they would be enabled to further the progress already made in rebuilding the domestic stability and economic strength of the United Kingdom and in weaving still more closely the threads which bound together the countries of the Commonwealth or , as he still preferred to call it , the Empire . |
| 24 | The increasing importance of the diplomatic network which bound together the States of Europe was reflected in the eighteenth century in the development in most countries of central institutions for the direction of foreign policy . |
| 25 | Aberdeen , the league leaders , are at home to Dundee United and Alex Smith , their manager , is contemplating ‘ at least one change ’ after last week 's defeat by Celtic which took away the points advantage they held over Rangers . |
| 26 | He auditioned the song for the show and all went well , but on the night of the big gig itself , the Editor of CBS-TV Programming decided to give it the chop , fearing that the talking blues , which lampooned both the society and racism in general , might upset redneck viewers . |
| 27 | The plates realigned and subduction resumed , sparking volcanic activity which spewed forth the granite rock covering much of the Sierras . |
| 28 | There is some evidence that Edward acted upon this request : in 1289 a specific judge of appeals ( unusjurisperitus judex appellacionum ) was created to handle cases arising from the court of Gascony , and a number of assemblies took place which gathered together the prelates , barons , knights and other nobles of the duchy , culminating in the great council at which Edward 's judicial and administrative ordinance ( 1289 ) for the future government of Aquitaine was promulgated . |
| 29 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 30 | However , CODESA II , which brought together the government , ANC and 17 other organizations , ended in deadlock and delegates failed to adopt any of the reports of the five working parties which had been established at the first CODESA session in December 1991 [ see pp. 38662-63 ; 38705 ] . |