Example sentences of "which [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 2 | A revised merger proposal between UB and Imperial , which involved disposing of Imperial 's Golden Wonder subsidiary , thus reducing market share in the snack foods market , was not referred to MMC and hence both bids were allowed to proceed . |
| 3 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 4 | Last September he bought a camcorder which stopped working within six months . |
| 5 | Touch and Go ( Published by the Author , 128pp , illus , sbk ) by R G Fletcher is the story of one particular Telegraphist/Air Gunner ( TAG ) course , No 35 , which began training in late 1941 and qualified a year later . |
| 6 | The new printers join the HP 5000 model F100 , which began shipping in 1992 . |
| 7 | Cats Meow , which began shipping in 1991 , is a system for building interactive information applications on Sun workstations using graphics , audio , text and video . |
| 8 | Scott could not succeed without outside finance , and soon this was supplied by David Astor , then editor of the London Observer , who put up half the money for a new venture , the Central African Mail , which began publishing in 1960 . |
| 9 | By doing so they tied their fortunes even more firmly to the popularity of the Soviet Union , placing a series of time-bombs under themselves which began exploding in 1947 and 1948 . |
| 10 | Rapid and dramatic developments in the medical sciences , particularly in the area of biochemistry and genetics , have demonstrated that the previous certainty which surrounded thinking in this area is an illusion . |
| 11 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 12 | This is much narrower than Fisher 's notion of the value of all transactions ( PT ) which included spending on intermediate goods and financial assets , as well as final goods and services . |
| 13 | Milan prepared for strong resistance to the Roncaglia decrees , which included conceding of all regalia or royal rights to Frederick , such as rents , tolls on roads , rivers , in ports and in market places . |
| 14 | Mr Wiley , who is 82 , is a great-great-grandson of the founder of the company , which started publishing in 1807 . |
| 15 | This is a book about books ; but some small space must be found for that art , and its products , which preceded printing by many thousands of years and without which there would have been no books at all — that of handwriting . |
| 16 | Upon getting airborne , Crocker decided to continue the trip which meant flying with two feet on the left rudder pedal in order to keep the aircraft straight , for the whole flight at a reduced speed of 150mph . |
| 17 | On July 10 the Cabinet approved a draft budget for 1992 which increased spending by 3 per cent to DM422,560 million . |
| 18 | Fiji Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara said that his colleagues wanted to send a delegation to New Caledonia each year to monitor implementation of the Matignon Accord ( the 1988 pact which ended fighting between French settlers and pro-independence indigenous Kanaks by promising a 10-year process leading to a referendum on self-determination — see pp. 36348-49 ) , but the proposal was rejected by the French government . |
| 19 | Before it met Eve and became a star , the apple was a humble fruit , a gift from the holy Tree of Life , which accumulated meaning in many cultures long before the Garden of Eden myth took shape . |