Example sentences of "which it [vb past] in [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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out , which it did in spectacular fashion . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |