Example sentences of "which it [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Teddy Boys also coexisted with compulsory military service — which is so often wheeled out as a panacea for the troubles of youth — and national service was even condemned in the 1950s as ‘ a positive adverse influence on young people ’ because of the way in which it interrupted the transition from school to work and encouraged an ‘ eat , drink and be merry ’ philosophy . |
| 2 | The Foreign Ministry , in a diplomatic note on Sept. 15 , 1989 , called on the Soviet Union to renegotiate the 1986 fishing agreement allowing Soviet vessels to fish in Argentine territorial waters [ see p. 34673 ] , failing which it said the agreement would not be extended on its expiry in March 1990 . |
| 3 | The Sub-Committee examined the contribution which each proposal made to the Development Programme and the extend to which it met the Council 's stated objectives for Phase 2 Pilots . |
| 4 | On the same day , the United States also entered into a Memorandum of Assurance with Israel in which it made a number of more specific undertakings directed towards preserving the security of Israel in the event of a violation of the Peace Treaty . |
| 5 | For four days the battalion suffered continuous attacks from apparently limitless numbers , during which it made a fighting withdrawal of 10 miles . |
| 6 | It was not the existence of the risk which mattered , so much as ( a ) the degree to which it enhanced the prejudice already created by the great publicity which all these matters had attracted in Hong Kong during the preceding years , and ( b ) the degree to which this additional risk could be neutralised by the trial judge when the B.M.F.L. prosecution eventually arrived at a hearing : see Reg. v. Kray ( 1969 ) 53 Cr.App.R. 412 . |
| 7 | Ideally , the Bank would like to sell all tap stock at or above the published issue price — minimum tender price or certified price at which it acquired the stock — but this is not always possible ; inevitably there are occasions when the Bank is holding unsold stock and when rates of interest rise and bond prices fall . |
| 8 | Subsequently , the landlord entered into a mortgage agreement in which it assigned the reversion to Hua Chiao Bank , with provision for reassignment upon redemption . |
| 9 | The United States space shuttle Discovery landed safely on Oct. 10 after a flawless four-day mission during which it launched the Ulysses space craft , a joint project of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the European Space Agency ( ESA ) , on a US$750,000,000 five-year mission to investigate the Sun 's unexplored polar regions , its magnetic field and the solar wind . |
| 10 | The people choose the government and the government carries out the policies on which it fought the election and controls the Commons and civil service . |
| 11 | Even the power of the storm , with which it shared a kinship also , could not assuage the hunger . |
| 12 | In practice this was done by a compromise , the thin skin being stiffened by attaching to it spars and stringers , with which it shared the load , the whole rather elaborate surface forming a shell stiff in bending and therefore unlikely to buckle . |
| 13 | In the late eighteenth century treatises against masturbation referred specifically to the way in which it undermined a man 's ability to work . |
| 14 | Particularly annoyed was the CGLI which said that the DES statement had included ‘ some unwarranted and damaging remarks about the Institute ’ , a gaffe for which it received an apology from no less a person than the Permanent Secretary . |
| 15 | The company said the results are likely to include an £8½m exceptional loss resulting from the appointment of administrative receivers to its client , Quietwater , with which it had a contract to build a hotel and leisure complex on a golf course development in Essex . |
| 16 | It may have made a decision which it had no power to make . |
| 17 | Either Jordan would completely eliminate its influence , as seemed likely following the 1970–1 war in Jordan , or the West Bank élite might fill the leadership vacuum , or a local national liberation movement might develop over which it had no control . |
| 18 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 19 | Yet the revenue maintains that it was under no legal obligation to repay the wrongly extracted tax and in consequence is not liable to pay interest on the sum held by it between the date it received the money and the date of the order of Nolan J. If the revenue is right , it will be enriched by the interest on money to which it had no right during that period . |
| 20 | But Mr Bush told the U N Security Council in New York that Iraq must put the right wrong it has done in seizing a nation to which it had no right . |
| 21 | Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution . |
| 22 | The rate at which its expectations have been rising strongly suggests that by the end of the year , the figure will be even higher than 40,000 , which is already 12% of the 344,000 with which it started the year . |
| 23 | One of the advantages of a religious education is the ability to identify at least the better-known texts of scripture and this was one which it needed no effort of memory to recall . |
| 24 | Altogether the Grand Trunk Canal had five tunnels and seventy-six locks on its ninetythree mile course from the Mersey to Shardlow , near which it entered the Trent . |
| 25 | The DES accompanied the report with Circular 11/77 , ‘ The Training of Teachers for Further Education ’ , in which it declared the Secretary of State 's support for the proposals in principle , together with the hope that an early start would be made on their implementation , ‘ so far as this is possible within existing resources ’ . |
| 26 | ANTI-FUR trade campaigners launched a £50,000 appeal yesterday after losing a libel case in which it described a mink farm as a ‘ hell hole ’ . |
| 27 | The Board 's role had been afforced through its assumption of providing powers under the Bedfordshire scheme and through its close co-operative relationships with the Rural Community Council ( RCC ) in Cambridgeshire and for which it provided a series of courses in that county . |
| 28 | In fact , for all its interest and importance , the nature of Danish government , and the extent to which it provided the forces which conquered England , must be left ill-defined . |
| 29 | KENWOOD Appliances had mixed fortunes during the year in which it joined the stock market , according to annual figures out yesterday . |
| 30 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |