Example sentences of "which had [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 2 | NEC Corp is now such a star in workstations in the Japanese market that Sanyo Electric Corp , which had developed its own Icon workstations around the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R-series RISC , has decided instead to work with NEC on MIPS-based workstations and buy the resulting products in OEM , the Nikkei Industrial Daily reports . |
| 3 | In his address , the bishop who had confirmed Patrick and his year had urged compassion in sexual matters upon them , which had decided them all finally that the Church was a refuge for old women , and that Christianity was somehow neutering in its effect . |
| 4 | She was n't sure which had shocked her more — the quietly authoritative voice a couple of inches above her left ear , or the incredible tingle sent shooting through her skin by cool fingers laid on her bare shoulder . |
| 5 | If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant . |
| 6 | Most of the CEB men , Hacking included , saw as one of the great prizes of nationalisation the possibility of escaping from the voluntarism which had characterised their former relations with the undertakings . |
| 7 | Grey eyes swept the outfit which had caused her some qualms , but it was modest compared to Nicky Kai 's , the oyster-coloured chiffon shirt collarless and slit to a point between her breasts , loose enough to leave them a mystery only occasionally glimpsed when she moved , dark nipples a shadowy suggestion . |
| 8 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 9 | Mosley and Joyce , however , were determined to make some gesture of defiance towards the growing crowd which had booed them all the way . |
| 10 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 11 | Thomson came from a generation of American composers which had to find its own way without benefit of university patronage . |
| 12 | The government introduced coupons for food , alcohol and tobacco on Nov. 10 to protect the Byelarus economy from a flood of roubles from neighbouring Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) states which had introduced their own currencies . |
| 13 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 14 | In her imagination Louisa saw the man confronted by the chill implacable will which had seized her own hand the previous night and imprisoned her in confidence … that sacred confidence . |
| 15 | He made no comment on Lesley 's invitation and Charlotte 's acceptance of it , none on the curious complexities which had confounded their own relationship since they left ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ two hours and more ago . |
| 16 | Bush made his statement after receiving a CIA report in mid-February , which had informed him that Israeli claims that under 1 per cent of Soviet immigrants were being settled in the " occupied territories " was only partly true , because a further 10 per cent were being placed in settlements in East Jerusalem . |
| 17 | He died at home in Jesmond , Newcastle upon Tyne , 25 August 1976 from the heart disease which had dogged his latter years . |
| 18 | Rolls-Royce were swift to establish in the courts that their purchase of the trademark Bentley overrode their contract with him , which had banned his own use of his name for ten years only . |
| 19 | There was a desultory air to the whole performance , and I knew that he was conscious of his mediocre first round , which had put him some way down the field . |
| 20 | It was the tone of voice , cold , edged , which had reproached her that evening at The Towers , when she had not worn the bracelet . |
| 21 | The presidential elections were partially boycotted in the predominantly Russian area of the Dnestr region , which had held its own presidential elections on Dec. 1 , together with a referendum on independence for the region . |
| 22 | This journal was founded in 1965 by the geological societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow , each of which had published their own series of Transactions in previous years . |
| 23 | This journal was founded in 1965 by the geological societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow , each of which had published their own series of Transactions in previous years . |