Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people , or " the masses " , had usurped powers and functions which properly belonged to government and the state . |
| 2 | There seemed to be wide horizontal bands of light which slowly changed in intensity , with brighter spots growing and fading in places mysteriously against the deeps of eternity . |
| 3 | Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery . |
| 4 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 5 | The Eastern fathers , and nearly all the Latin fathers too , held a view of the Devil which eventually fell into disrepute . |
| 6 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |
| 7 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 8 | It was an exercise to prove the existence of a Nonconformist unity which only came into existence by the exercise . |
| 9 | The argument that , quite apart from the question of recklessness , the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 ( which only came into force in the UK in December 1986 ) does as a matter of law override the limitation provisions of both the Hague-Visby Rules and the Athens Convention ( for passenger claims ) will not be easily accepted by Norton Rose . |
| 10 | What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death . |
| 11 | The boat 's wrap-around windscreens were made of black polarised glass which only added to Dream Baby 's ugly air of menace . |
| 12 | On the other hand , his determination to win became such that he frequently appeared to condone his fast men bowling in an intimidating fashion , which obviously led to criticism from press and public . |
| 13 | In England , Wales and Scotland the new local government systems which finally came into operation in 1974 appeared to confirm a new status for local government , which was also reflected in significantly increased salaries for the chief officers of the new councils . |
| 14 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 15 | He had two almost contemporary biographies and a wealth of oral tradition to draw on , and out of these materials he made a lively and dramatic portrait , full of sentiment and warmth , which easily outdistanced in popularity the biographies written by later writers who tried to do better . |
| 16 | The picturesque result and subsequent offers to purchase , for substantially more than the couple had paid , were not lost on Jill 's father , chairman of a company which already specialised in timber frame building . |
| 17 | The new approach which thus came into being and swept rapidly to prominence in Switzerland and Germany was clearly very different in tone and style from the previously established Liberal Theology . |
| 18 | Research Triangle Park , North Carolina-based Alphatronix — which just opened for business in Birmingham , West Midlands , has announced what it calls the industry 's first open hierarchical storage management environment . |
| 19 | The parents agreed that the priority problem was temper tantrums which always occurred after refusal of Joanne 's demands . |
| 20 | Streets which once throbbed with dock and factory workers and their families were now deserted . |
| 21 | It lies in the immediate background of another family of views of consciousness which , at the time I write , is propagated with the zeal which once went into behaviourism . |
| 22 | The legality of money market dealings by Hammersmith and Fulham Council in west London , which once amounted to exposure of £5bn is being challenged by its auditor , Anthony Hazell , a partner in Deloitte Haskins and Sells , with the support of the Audit Commission , the local authority financial watchdog . |
| 23 | The creation therefore is not like some frictionless machine , which once set in motion carries on until stopped , but something which is dependent on the continuing work of its Creator . |
| 24 | In one leading case from 1963 , a Fascist leader was convicted under the section for making a speech at a public meeting which deliberately provoked to fury the Jews , the members of CND , and the communists who had come to Trafalgar Square with the express intention of stopping the meeting . |
| 25 | Thus in Israel associations were formed on an industry-wide basis which usually coincided with product and labour markets ( Shirom and Jacobson , 1975 ) . |
| 26 | The FA , which usually refrained from comment on its Cup finals , was led to express its ‘ great regret ’ at the behaviour during the game , and hoped that ‘ there will not be any similar conduct in any future Final tie ’ . |
| 27 | These results , were bore no relation to visible bacillary form mycobacteria or spheroplasts , suggest that M paratuberculosis was present in the original intestinal tissues of the Crohn 's disease patients , in a form which hardly replicated in broth culture , it at all . |
| 28 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 29 | They passed the fountain , which still lay in darkness , having beaten Stephen and the team of electricians he had had working until minutes before the guests ' arrival — the one and only thing that was not finished . |
| 30 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |