Example sentences of "which it [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The most interesting feature of this study , however , is the way in which it compared the preferred jobs of school-leavers with those obtained , revealing the gap between aspirations and reality .
2 Admittedly nerves were strained to breaking point and great passions aroused , yet what mattered in the longer run was the extent to which it caused the British to decide to draw even closer to the United States .
3 Relations between Slovenia and Serbia deteriorated sharply during early July , following the publication on July 2 of a formal declaration by the Slovenian Assembly in which it proclaimed the full sovereignty of the Slovenian republic .
4 But it has has dropped the commitment to increase NHS spending by 3 per cent a year in real terms on which it fought the 1987 general election .
5 Nothing was more spiritual than music , but the characteristic form in which it entered the bourgeois home was the piano , an exceedingly large , elaborate and expensive apparatus , even when reduced , for the benefit of a more modest stratum aspiring to true bourgeois values , to the more manageable dimensions of the upright ( pianino ) .
6 In April 1990 the Guardian carried a leader in which it described the ideal citizen as conjured up by Mr Hurd as ‘ active but elusive ’ : ‘ Apart from a minor sighting in a speech by John MacGregor , the Active Citizen has vanished from public debate as if he had never been . ’
7 At the end of the war , because of the sustained activities of Jacques and his core of full-time tutors throughout the District , the herculean efforts of both university resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk and the five WEA organising tutors , the District had reached a position in which it occupied the pre-eminent place in the region as the major providing body for adult education provision .
8 Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) .
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