Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , he claimed , a piece of bitumen which assuredly had once formed part of the hull of Noah 's Ark , and had great value in the averting of mischief . |
| 2 | Rob 's party , and Richard Stirling 's mention of Elise … and Luke 's terse reply which effectively forbade further talk on the subject . |
| 3 | Comfortable and friendly , it is a broader , homelier version of the ‘ Queen Anne ’ style , which had been conceived over thirty years earlier by the great Richard Norman Shaw , and which eventually became so settled and familiar in suburban streets throughout England . |
| 4 | Status . — An introduced resident which apparently became firmly established about 1841 . |
| 5 | Another potentially lethal hazard has been identified when baby-walkers are used ( Gray , 1987 ) ; it is easy for the child to reach out and pull on a kettle flex or iron flex which perhaps seemed safely tucked away and despite the apparent pleasure derived from baby-walkers , there is enough evidence of related accidents to recommend that they should not be used . |
| 6 | These provisions define the basis for the highly complex cursus honorum of the learned profession which finally became fully elaborated only in the early eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Top-up funds from parents had little impact , however , in secondary schools where capitation levels ranged from £1.30 to £2.73 a pupil — money which usually had also to cover stationery and printing costs . |
| 8 | It was from the 1850s , however , that these tentative beginnings crystallised into a new post which rapidly became generally recognised . |
| 9 | The reference is to the three cantons ( Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden ) which originally got together to form the Swiss Confederation , along with the fourth that soon joined them , Luzern . |
| 10 | The war has torn the scales from our eyes , and forced us to see things as they really are , and by the light of this clearer vision we have come to regard many conditions as intolerable which before had only seemed inevitable … |
| 11 | They shopped around for bargains and cheaper food ; were more selective as to what food was bought ; and cooked cheaper but filling meals which often took longer to prepare . |
| 12 | ‘ What the State expected in return was some sort of obedience and a loyalty which often ran directly counter to the truth . |
| 13 | It was indeed rice crispies , a substance for which Amiss had always felt a dislike verging on contempt . |
| 14 | It is explained as much by Aden Arabie 's colonial , third-world dimension , as it is by its lyrically explosive and liberatingly destructive style which undoubtedly held more appeal for Sartre in 1960 than the more prosaic , communist militant style of Les Chiens de garde , with its undertones of Stalinist party dogma . |
| 15 | The main impact of the 1979–80 recession was felt in a sharp drop in recruitment , which then grew slowly to match discharges only in 1987–88 . |
| 16 | Shortly afterwards he left the licensed dealer which then tried unsuccessfully to get him sacked from the stockbroker he had persuaded to give him a job . |
| 17 | Norwich-Birmingham had already been tried , with locomotive-hauled stock , but putting together the services which previously had separately linked Liverpool , Warrington Central , Manchester ; Blackpool and Manchester ; Sheffield via the Hope Valley line ; Nottingham , Grantham , Peterborough , Ely and Ipswich/Norwich and Harwich Parkeston Quay , was a bold move from which has developed a popular route on which much new business is emerging . |
| 18 | The form which NICRA took , therefore , was determined by the coalition of forces which actually came together to create it , of which the republicans were only one element . |