Example sentences of "which it [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fokker is negotiating with Lockheed to assemble aircraft in America : this would bring Lockheed back into the commercial business , which it quit in 1981 after losing its shirt with the TriStar . |
| 2 | The final testimony to the vitality of European civilization in this period is the small concession which it made to reciprocal influences from the world outside . |
| 3 | So the impact of nineteen twenty five to seven on the Communist Party and on the revolution which it made in nineteen forty nine is just as great as the impact had been on the Kuomintang and nationalist China . |
| 4 | As no great lover of period instruments for Beethoven sonatas , I anticipated that it would be in the second in D minor ( the only one of the three to betray the darkness from which it grew in 1802 ) that I would be most aware of limited powers of expression . |
| 5 | There is little possibility of France rejoining the alliance 's integrated military command , which it left in 1966 ; that would be a French political retreat . |
| 6 | The company reportedly has 15 systems management packages , which it got in some cases by acquisition ( Fusion for example ) , covering such items as operations , performance , security and storage architected for client/server so they will supposedly support OS/2 , Windows NT and Presentation Manager clients . |
| 7 | At the same time , the rise of this new class , and the transition from feudalism to capitalism which it accomplished in Western Europe , were made possible by other transformations and political or cultural conflicts ; by the establishment of centralized , effectively administered nation states , and by the religious struggles from which emerged the Protestant sects and the diffusion of the Protestant ethic , which at the very least contributed to the self-confidence and determination of the bourgeoisie , promoted a climate of opinion favourable to its activities , and perhaps hastened its triumph . |
| 8 | All local agreements up and down the country which it counted to eighty odds were all scrubbed and there was what you call a national agreement established to cover the whole of Scotland which meant the man in the remotest part of Scotland got the same wages and conditions as in as the man in Edinburgh or Glasgow or any big city . |
| 9 | And also last Friday at education committee there was a long debate , both on the procedure which would be adopted by the working party , in discharging it 's remit and in particular the policy which it recommended regarding small schools , and also an extended debate on one of the areas which was a subject of recommendation by the er , district auditor which concerns the organisation of first and middle schooling in the Meer area , and there the working party did look very specifically at the recommendation that was made by the district auditor that decided on balance that that was n't likely to produce the best and most cost effective education in that part of the county . |
| 10 | Apple Computer Inc has persuaded Brazilian computer manufacturer Dismac Industrial SA , Sao Paulo to hand over the Apple brand name , which it registered in 1979 : Apple says ‘ We reached a friendly agreement under which the Dismac Group will grant , with no cost incurred for Apple Computer , its registered Apple brand name ; we are pleased with this gesture — Brazil is a promising market and Apple is interested in fixing its image ’ there . |
| 11 | The research focuses on one large and diverse group — those Welsh who migrated from Wales to English towns in the mid-nineteenth century — and through the analysis of group experiences examines both the process of migration and the impact which it had on cultural and social change . |
| 12 | Each gang , called a crew , had its own area which it defended against other skins and non-skins . |
| 13 | This delightful timber-framed listed building was once the medieval home of six priests , and then became a rectory , which it remained until 1840 . |
| 14 | In 1927 they converted Robins 's fifteenth-century Sussex house , Backsettown , into a women 's convalescent home , which it remained until 1989 . |
| 15 | It issues pollution warnings only when the level exceeds 100 ppb , which it did on seven occasions in the 1990 summer . |
| 16 | They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out , which it did in spectacular fashion . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , Circumspecte agatis deserves attention because of the circumstances which brought it about as much as for the harmony which it established in some controversial areas of justice . |
| 18 | An infallible belief would be justified but would not derive its justification from any relation in which it stood to other beliefs ; it would not need any support from elsewhere . |
| 19 | Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 . |
| 20 | Weir did not have the benefit of any of the exceptionally large orders for desalination plant or gas-handling equipment which it won in 1991 , but new orders totalled £373 million and are expected to top £400 million in 1993 , helped by the weaker pound . |
| 21 | Were Lascars and Chinamen to benefit from the improvements in food , accommodation , repatriation etc. which it provided for British seamen ? |
| 22 | First , the robot made a plastic body which it covered with soft plastic , like a skin . |
| 23 | We can witness all these in Worsley 's book in which he demonstrates that architectural draughtsmanship reached a point of perfection by 1837 , after which it degenerated into mere technical proficiency , when even bodies such as the Institute of British Architects condemned the use of colour and supplementary foreground activities that had previously made competition perspectives more attractive . |
| 24 | He hurriedly wrote a long letter to The Times , which it published on 14th February , the Monday after the debate . |
| 25 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Externally , AWCC felt that its demands were highly specific and did not benefit from a wider articulation through the North Side Leadership Conference , which it joined in 1985 . |