Example sentences of "which [vb past] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest surprise came when in 1935 Warner Bros released Black Fury , a movie which depicted in a direct and totally unprecedented way the impact of a strike on a coal-mining community . |
| 2 | His body hung strangely limp , his arms dangled loosely by his sides ; all his personality seemed concentrated in his fleet , dextrous feet , which moved in a complex and various sequence . |
| 3 | These were a series of ore bodies which occurred in a 5 m thick sandstone unit and became zinc-rich towards the east . |
| 4 | She phoned for a taxi which arrived in a few minutes . |
| 5 | Among these were PPB , which survived in two departments until the mid 1970s , PAR and MBO , which flourished in a few pilot studies . |
| 6 | After a demoralising season of gallery retractions and closures , more severe than even the most pessimistic expectations of a year ago , it is gratifying to report a promising new gallery which opened in a large industrial space in West Hampstead in the middle of last month . |
| 7 | Each had long hair which flowed in a golden mane down her back ; and despite the difference in age , they were of similar height . |
| 8 | It grew in a boggy area where there was a spring and a small stream which flowed in a desultory way after the autumn rains but almost dried up in summer . |
| 9 | Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour . |
| 10 | In the Far East , the Azahari revolt broke out in Brunei in December 1962 ; and , although it was crushed relatively easily by British and Gurkha troops stationed in Malaya , it led on to the Indonesian ‘ Confrontation ’ , which began in a small way in April 1963 . |
| 11 | By way of variation , though , she sang a simple setting of a poignant old Irish poem , which began in a lovely duet between her and Kellock , with drummer John Rae on bodhran , but eventually turned into a full-steam work out for the trio , which was completed by bass player Andy Mitchell . |
| 12 | In certain respects they resemble or recall the heads of Kota and Hongue reliquary figures from the French Congo , some of the most abstract and inventive of all African tribal sculptures , and which existed in a wide and varied selection in the collections of the Trocadero at the time of Picasso 's visit . |
| 13 | Questions about the band 's future were fuelled by a Derry Brownson quote featured in the Daily Mirror which originated in a European magazine : ‘ We may not be around much longer . |
| 14 | The idea , which originated in a 1947 United States Commission on the Freedom of the press , found an echo more recently in Britain , where similar ideas were put forward by some leaders of the Labour party . |
| 15 | The patent application , which concerned a piece of machinery which functioned in a certain way because of the punched cards , was allowed to proceed . |
| 16 | They climbed until they reached the first pocket of snow , which lay in a long , dark slash on the mountain 's side . |
| 17 | It was difficult to forget that the Mercedes car he was travelling in — which lay in a tangled mess by the roadside near Lockerbie — belonged to the famous bookmaker Tony Queen . |
| 18 | Before any work commenced however , the region 's administrations were transferred to Burston in January , 1992 , which culminated in a new office being completed in July that year . |
| 19 | The result was a three-year project conducted by Lynn McGregor , Maggie Tate and Ken Robinson which culminated in a major publication ( 1977 ) and an excellent film of dynamic teaching ( Take Three ) . |
| 20 | Self-assertive and uncompromising , Malins led a protest against the racial policies of the Good Templars in the American South , which culminated in a secessionist IOGT of the world , dominated by the grand lodges of England and Scotland , during 1876–87 . |
| 21 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 22 | –Then followed a sustained period of pressure on the St Albans ' goal which culminated in a 25-yard shot from Springett which was well saved by Westwood . |
| 23 | She recalled a recent appeal for a Lithuanian translation which resulted in a hasty phone call to the embassy in London . |
| 24 | It led to the publication in 1936 of The General Theory of Interest , Employment and Money by J.M. Keynes , a Cambridge don , which revolutionised conventional economics and which resulted in a new approach to the conduct of economic policy . |
| 25 | Thanks , initially , to Winckelmann , Greece and thereby the whole ancient world took on a new fascination which resulted in a new kind of scholar with a new kind of scholarly aim : the reconstruction of antiquity in all its real detail . |
| 26 | The initial poll , which resulted in a 713-711 vote in favour of a split from local authority control , was ruled ‘ unsafe ’ by Mr Patten . |
| 27 | However , ever since an incident with a chicken which resulted in a bald-arsed chicken and a dog with a mouthful of feathers , I 've kept him on a lead whenever I 've been near a farmyard . |
| 28 | ‘ The debt burden which resulted in a net transfer of over US$30 billion in 1986 to the industrialised countries from the developing where well over 800 million people live in poverty and misery ( beyond any rational definition of human decency ) , in which over 40,000 children die every day from malnutrition and disease , in which 2/3 of the world 's people live — is a scandal ’ |
| 29 | In effect , ‘ word got round ’ the user networks that these regimes were a ‘ joke ’ which resulted in a noticeable drop in the referral rate . |
| 30 | Charlotte Fischer , the new J.C.R. Sports Captain , organised weekly fun runs for Somervillians which resulted in a general increase in fitness and well being . |