Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A strange glow was emitted by the water on the stage , which gradually increased in brilliance until it revealed a vibrancer performing the opening sequence of a presentation . |
| 32 | In Vietnam the US-supported regime in the south was defeated in 1975 , following an agreement in Paris in 1973 which formally ended outside involvement in the longstanding conflict with the communist-ruled north . |
| 33 | Unix workstations are now being installed between the mainframe and the personal computers , which formerly served as SNA terminals . |
| 34 | One of the by-products of contact with Europe was a boom in wine sales , which nearly doubled at home , and a long-overdue improvement in restaurant standards . |
| 35 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |
| 36 | I 've been seriously caught out more than once on early ambitious trips — the ice axe which nearly stayed at home was worth its weight in gold . |
| 37 | Lloyd was wearing the bottom half of a pale grey pinstripe suit with turn-ups which probably took on board water when it rained . |
| 38 | The little blue flower , ‘ robin-run-in-the-hedge ’ , which probably looked like violet on the first , distant glance , is ground ivy . |
| 39 | Personal lines , which also benefited from rate increases , showed some overall deterioration during the quarter . |
| 40 | The 1–0 League Cup win at City was the start of Tottenham 's revival , which also coincided with goalkeeper Erik Thorstvedt 's return . |
| 41 | It therefore became necessary to adopt a luni-solar calendar in which the months were measured by the phases of the moon but which also kept in step with the sun . |
| 42 | I 'm happy to see that the attitude of the C E C and of the General Secretary has changed radically , I would say , since last year , when it and they opposed the Liverpool motion , which also called for accountability of Labour councillors and M Ps . |
| 43 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 44 | This is the brief article ( less than five printed pages ) which originally appeared in Poetry for February 1918 , under the title , ‘ The Hard and Soft in French Poetry ’ . |
| 45 | It was a grisly episode indeed , one which inevitably detracted from history 's judgement of the epochal events that were to follow . |
| 46 | The outcome of this meeting however , was that the Task Force not only decided to question the research priorities of the ARC , but also their methodology which typically relied upon research contracts awarded to outside firms of consultants to whom : — |
| 47 | First there were alternative models of historical geomorphology evolved in areas where remnants of Tertiary planation surfaces were dominant in the landscape and these are considered in this section ; and secondly there were developments in areas where Quaternary deposits and landscapes promoted a very different approach and one which often centred upon sea levels and glacial landforms and their interpretation , as reviewed below ( pp. 74 and 76 ) . |
| 48 | She was the only midwife in our district and if the women could n't afford her the neighbours helped , a practice which often ended in tragedy . |
| 49 | ( I am still smarting at the MILLSTONE remark about poor little B , at which simply roared with laughter , told me to ignore it and that he , , was merely getting crabbit , old , critical and jealous … ) . |
| 50 | During Jan. 13-15 , in a pogrom which reportedly surpassed in horror the massacre of Armenians in Sumgait in February 1988 [ see pp. 36034-35 ] , up to 60 people , most of them Armenians , were killed . |
| 51 | The Series 6 , which reportedly went into beta two weeks ago , includes two servers , a 700 , carrying a maximum of four CPUs , and a 900 with a maximum of eight . |
| 52 | The ruler continued to enjoy , unless he were unusually vicious or unlucky , a respect which sometimes verged on worship . |
| 53 | At times she felt overwhelmed by his personality , which sometimes bordered on piety . |
| 54 | She dismantled them and used the beads to weight the edges of crocheted food covers , which then went on sale at a craft workshop at Symonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire border . |
| 55 | Ms Robinson trained at Darlington College of Education which then specialised in nursery teaching and the town , she says , was a pilot for nursery education . |
| 56 | In all control and spinal patients studied , there was an initial increase in external anal sphincter electromyographic activity on insertion of the anorectal tube which then declined in concert with the anal pressure to reach a stable baseline . |
| 57 | The next day saw the religious ceremony at Notre Dame — which again led to family difficulties . |
| 58 | These hotels are a new addition to Kuoni 's hotel programme , which previously concentrated on deluxe and out-of-town accommodation . |
| 59 | Mass arrests of UDA chiefs could start within hours of the government ban , which officially began at midnight . |
| 60 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |