Example sentences of "which [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did surprise him a little , and which argued a political maturity that even sensitive Western observers were sometimes inclined to overlook , was that , in three days of systematic canvassing of Libyan opinion , he encountered little or no personal hostility . |
| 2 | The chief problem lay in political requirements which engendered a saturated home market and also that the society was not empowered to manufacture the more profitable battery . |
| 3 | For example , it is arguable that the qualitative change which engendered an environmental movement in the early 1960s involved not so much the presence of environmental destruction as the fact that the new forms of pollution and disruption became much more difficult , if not impossible , to avoid . |
| 4 | There , the defendant company , which operated a large number of supermarkets , had instituted in their stores an effective system to prevent the commission of an offence . |
| 5 | Obviously she had realised the futility of luring Silas into a chalet which lacked a double bed . |
| 6 | This policy posed a general problem for the National WEA , which lacked a clear view on its partnership with other providers , and was an especially acute one for the District where important concessions had been made in earlier years to the Cambridge Board . |
| 7 | Many early r'n'r bass players continued to use the upright bass , which lent a distinct voice to the records of the time . |
| 8 | The work has a masterly sense of proportion , an elegiac richness of palate and a spiritual far-sightedness which lent a radiant depth to the work 's mythological tapestry . |
| 9 | Erm , but , you know , which lent a certain point to the whole argument . |
| 10 | For a moment she stood looking around the wide hall , closely carpeted in dark , velvety blue which lent an added drama to the vivid Impressionist paintings , the apricot-coloured Knole settee . |
| 11 | On Oct. 24 , 1989 , details were released of a Supreme Court ruling which qualified an earlier ruling on Oct. 3 that the government 's emergency policy of extradition by decree ( introduced in August — see p. 36844 ) was constitutional , stating that administrative measures could only be used in cases where countries requesting extradition had no extradition agreement with Colombia . |
| 12 | Slumptown is a community which experienced a brief period of industrial expansion before a rapid economic decline . |
| 13 | This arose because although the site was nearly ideal for our purposes , right in the middle there stood a small cottage in which lived a retired shepherd , Amos Chatfield . |
| 14 | A ROTTWEILER dog which attacked a three-year-old girl was humanely destroyed yesterday . |
| 15 | This was provided as a consequence of the Ryder Report , which recommended a substantial injection of public funds in April 1975 . |
| 16 | The Economist referred to the device of ‘ calling in a High Court judge to write incredible economic nonsense ’ , but whatever view is taken of the justice or the wisdom of the report which recommended a considerable wage increase and which formed the basis of the settlement , the impression given was that the government had set up this enquiry to produce a report which would enable them to yield to the miners ' claim without total loss of face . |
| 17 | Walking towards the fire the ghost raised his hand and struck the watchman a smart blow on the body which produced a strange sensation . |
| 18 | THE high flying Canaries were knocked off their perch by an in-form Wimbledon side which produced a classy display . |
| 19 | After the break Oxford maintained their forward impetus , scoring a push-over try , and thereafter the sides alternated tries , culminating in the best of the afternoon when Smith , Hein and Curtis combined in a 60-metre break down the right which produced a diving touchdown for Curtis . |
| 20 | Inflation had slowed down in the United Kingdom to 5 per cent per year which produced a greater sense of economic security in terms of planning expenditures ahead . |
| 21 | Keegan keeps the team which produced a last-gasp win over Portsmouth last Saturday after five successive League defeats . |
| 22 | The beginning of life was an ‘ event ’ which produced a living cell and every change involving that cell that occurred thereafter was a further ‘ event ’ in the evolutionary process . |
| 23 | The footpath went over the hatches to the Mill , at that time a bone-mill which produced a terrible smell that pervaded a wide area , rather spoiling the lovely spot . |
| 24 | These developments , which produced a new generation of flute soloists ( Blavet , Lucas , Desjardins et al. ) , seem to explain his apparent loss of interest in the flute indicated by the inventories . |
| 25 | Natural selection would favour those strains which produced a symptomless infection . |
| 26 | Even the Trade and Industry Select Committee , which produced a lengthy report on the investigation system during 1990 , almost totally ignored the very existence of the s 447 enquiries , preferring to concentrate on the public inspections . |
| 27 | Worldwide membership of the 13-year-old Eastwood Appreciation Society — which produced a monthly magazine — had slumped from 1,000 to just 87 . |
| 28 | The pool , which produced a large number of coins and items of jewellery , suggestive of votive deposits , was approached through an imposing ante-room , given sophisticated architectural treatment . |
| 29 | They also evince an obvious preference for Greek , as against Latin , as an object of study — a preference that can be traced back to Nietzsche 's schooldays , which produced a noteworthy essay on Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex ( 1864 ) . |
| 30 | I moved from ground level to tower block level , which produced a dynamic image more in keeping with a 20th century view of city life . |