Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | They created an egg from which came forth the sun , who fashioned mankind and gave order to the world . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With the rocket 's armaments he rigged up an explosive which killed both the crew and the people of Dido . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The embarrassing Dylan incident , which shocked both the audience and TV viewers by its insensitivity , is the first example of multi-aid . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The plates realigned and subduction resumed , sparking volcanic activity which spewed forth the granite rock covering much of the Sierras . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | In the carnage and suffering of the trenches his strongly sacramental Christianity was communicated in memorable addresses and in colloquial verse of sometimes powerful simplicity , which brought together the passion of Christ and the doubt , fear , and courage of soldiers caught in the squalid stalemate of the Flanders trenches . |
| 21 | In her admittedly bland , yet rather touching view of the Queen Mother , Alison Watt included her trademark , a lone tea-cup , which brought forth the scorn of critics like Brian Sewell , who called it ‘ a hideous jumble ’ , making the Queen Mother look like ‘ an ancient pensioner waiting for her 100th birthday telegram from the Queen ’ . |
| 22 | In fact it might well have been that such developments generally attracted more labour than could be fully employed , which departed once the enterprise was terminated , leaving behind a sleepy farming community not unlike the fifteen undeveloped villages of Babergh hundred ( Table 2.18 ) . |
| 23 | Everywhere the city rang to cries of Viva Verdi , a call which did neither the composer nor the opera house any harm at all . |
| 24 | These catalysts were strong acids which damaged both the wood and the workmen . |
| 25 | Soon after Walter Luff 's arrival as Transport Manager in 1933 , Marshall showed him the design for the new railcoach , which fitted exactly the requirement for the Promenade and Fleetwood route . |
| 26 | The eighteen twenties and thirties saw fashion moving from the Empire line , which was , had a very small bodice and a skirt that flowed down straight to the ground to a lower waisted dress with big sleeves and a shorter skirt , and the impression of a little girl , a little sort of bouncy girl who was all skippy and everything , which reflected really the feeling of optimism at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | This reflects the almost total concern with American abolitionism of some reformers as well as a liberalism about religious matters which regretted even the refusal to allow the unbeliever Joseph Barker to speak at the earlier Manchester conference . |
| 28 | I was on day duty with Jimmy Coutts and I was peacefully plotting a chart on the far side of the chart table , which was hidden from the entry door by the screen which ran nearly the length of the room . |
| 29 | The Sunday press , the weekly press and the provincial press paled into insignificance in the light of the metropolitan press which replayed daily the myriad Parliamentary political scene in print . |
| 30 | The Works continued in this form until the early Sixties , when there was a major reorganisation which swept away the traverser and the old hangars to make room for a bus park . |