Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If there was a redistributive aspect to funding of the national debt and its associated taxation , it was largely one which operated within the ranks of the better-off .
2 To use a single but important example , it is the difference between looking at the Great War as an event which centred around the policies and machinations of politicians and generals , or one which impinged upon the lives of ordinary people .
3 ITN had said that in the 12 months before the ban was imposed , 0.01 per cent of air time would have been affected and these items could have been recast into a form which complied with the directives .
4 The churches , slow to see that change must come , failed to take control of developments , which passed into the hands first of private enterprise , then of local authorities , under the general direction of Parliament .
5 Given the sensitive functions of the librarium which doubled as the communications centre , naturally entry to that chamber was restricted .
6 Sargent 's suggested solution to this problem can be seen by looking at the simple n = 3 case , which led to the restrictions of equation ( 3.50 ) .
7 It was Mr Nofomela 's confession to the killing — the day before he was due to be executed for the murder of a white farmer — which led to the disclosures that the force has been running professional death squads .
8 By December 1858 St Petersburg had taken two of the three decisions which led to the statutes of 1861 : the decision to emancipate and the decision to emancipate with land .
9 The University appears , then , to have great admiration for the fact that , among other things , Caspar Weinberger : a ) supported the Contra rebels in a war which led to the deaths of some 30,000 Nicaraguans and which was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice .
10 Witness , for example , the wildly discrepant assessments of the effectiveness of allied air-raids in the first days of the war or the ‘ classification error ’ which led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians in Baghdad .
11 Even in 1987 the brand new ship was suffering smells similar to those which led to the deaths of Katherine and James Tomlins .
12 It is not wholly surprising , and is certainly not W. 's fault , that she remained in the grip of the disease , gradually losing weight or that on one occasion she used violence towards a member of the staff in circumstances which led to the police being called .
13 All that remains from those days is the outline of the road which led to the hangers .
14 The incident which led to the bans happened entering the last two furlongs of the You 'll Never Get Rich Handicap when Weaver , on eventual fourth Corn Futures , hampered Darley 's mount Love Jazz .
15 Mulling over these gloomy thoughts , he climbed the stairs to the gallery where Tammuz' office and labs were and the corridor which led to the rooms he and Zambia had as living quarters .
16 One of his main claims was that MI5 had been fully penetrated by Russian intelligence which led to the allegations that Roger Hollis was himself a Russian mole .
17 SWINDON 'S Achilles heel in 1990 — the revelation of which led to the convictions of former chairman Brian Hillier and ex-County Ground accountant Vivien Farrar .
18 She waited by the window to see if they would reappear in the lane which led into the woods .
19 She turned right into the High Street then jumped from the cycle and began pushing it up an alleyway on her left which led into the stables cum car park at the rear of the Berkeley Chase Hotel .
20 For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round .
21 This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries .
22 This wider context of the developments at university and LEA levels is necessary for an adequate understanding of the difficulties which arose in the years immediately prior to the 1939–45 war between the Cambridge Board and the District as there were serious implications for the National WEA if the District 's problems had not been resolved through protracted , patient and complex negotiations .
23 Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time .
24 He followed with particular attention the progress of General Juin 's French Expeditionary Force , which fought alongside the Allies in Italy and in May 1944 achieved a crucial breakthrough in the German line south to Rome .
25 The flocks of sheep which grazed in the pastures near the villa were similar to the Soay breed — hardy creatures which produced milk and hard-wearing wool .
26 The climb-down by the pro-mining countries came in the wake of dramatic reversals of position by Germany and Japan , which announced in the days leading up to the agreement that they would support the prohibition of mining .
27 It was the middle of the orange month — almost the hottest time of the year — when the condensation from the mist which clung to the buildings every morning was welcome for the moisture it imparted .
28 Throughout the 1930s Hollywood was to make films condemning various abuses and malpractices in the American system and there were always to be films which clung to the conventions of the city film as they had emerged in the early part of the decade .
29 In the event it was only those six states in which agitation for closer political and economic integration had been strongest in the 1940s , with political support at the highest level , which entered into the discussions that led to the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) .
30 Abudah saw a dome which rose to the clouds .
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