Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One exception was a collaboration with Wilhelm Weber which produced in 1833 the first operating electric telegraph . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 3 | I hope that the London borough grants scheme , which got into such a terrible muddle last year , will do much better this year in awarding available money to London boroughs . |
| 4 | As regards the taxpayer 's second contention , it was recognised in R v IRC ex parte TC Coombs & Co [ 1991 ] STC 97 that there was a presumption of regularity which applied to both the inspector as the decision maker in issuing a notice and to the Commissioner as the monitor of that decision . |
| 5 | But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton . |
| 6 | The election was conducted according to an electoral law agreed during the round table talks , which provided for half the 400 Grand National Assembly seats to be elected on a constituency basis and the remainder by proportional representation [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 7 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 8 | The victim had 15 stab wounds , including one to his neck which came within half a millimetre of severing a major blood vessel . |
| 9 | Andrade treated the surface of glass with sodium vapour and produced linear patterns which seemed to intricate the existence of surface cracks . |
| 10 | The second problem that graphics can bring is when you have been active with that 256 greyscale scanner which seemed like such a good idea . |
| 11 | Now you admit that all your fundamental objectives and ambitions which flowed from such a strategy are themselves unrealisable , certainly over the course of this parliament . |
| 12 | Three Burgundians therefore met three Scots in a tournament at Stirling presided over by James II , which began with all the appropriate pomp and ceremony , and then acquired all the merits of a punch-up , which the Burgundians duly won three-nil . |
| 13 | During a Test career which began in 1975 the Essex and England opening batsman always stressed the importance of a stable family . |
| 14 | I am afraid that this war , which started for all the reasons I have mentioned , is turning gradually into a similar kind of war to the Lebanese . |
| 15 | ‘ We are talking about the return to power of the Communist nomenklatura ( party elite ) , ’ Mr Kostikov said later in an interview with Russian and Reuter television , ‘ … that very nomenklatura which fell with such a thunderous crash in August 1991 . ’ |
| 16 | I think that this was a tension , a sort of contradiction which went through all the seventies , a real problem about sex which was never really confronted . |
| 17 | The zeal for the development of spiritual life , which had flowered in Europe from the tenth to the twelfth centuries , had resulted in the reform of the Benedictine monasticism of the West and the emergence of Orders — Cluniac , Cistercian and Carthusian — committed to living apart in various communal ways which stressed above all the individual inner spiritual growth of their members . |
| 18 | In the office which looked like all the others with its geometric desk and wire baskets and identical questions , he had suddenly created a different version of himself , with words borrowed from newspapers , half-heard conversations , and fitted them into structures of plausibility ; he 'd discovered that if he spoke fast enough no one noticed the inconsistencies . |
| 19 | This took the form of a central set of routines which looked after all the I/O functions , graphics and peripherals and was intended to remove any need for users to add extra items . |
| 20 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 21 | Ms Cann accordingly drew up a second deal , which accounted for all the different royalties ( television , merchandising and so forth ) separately . |