Example sentences of "which [vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | conducted a further study ( experiment 1 c ) that was almost identical to the first but which failed to yield any evidence for context-specificity . |
| 2 | It may be noted that the experiments by Siegel ( 1970 ) , James ( 1971 ) , and Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) , which failed to find any loss of latent inhibition at longer intervals , all gave repeated presentations of the target stimulus in pre-exposure ; that is , they gave training likely to establish a context — target association . |
| 3 | Of the three patients that died , the cause of death was not mentioned in one case , a second patient died of oesophageal recurrence , the third succumbed to systemic lymphoma five years after irradiation of a single oesophageal manifestation ; local treatment had been completely successful , as indicated at necropsy , which failed to reveal any signs of malignancy in the oesophagus . |
| 4 | Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries . |
| 5 | Here we can mention only a few events which led to major therapeutic developments , and pass by much else which gave the clues and spurs for progress . |
| 6 | Political unrest in Yugoslavia could have spelt bad news for Airtours , which planned to send 7,000 sunseekers there this summer . |
| 7 | For example , Proposition 13 , which sought to curtail local government expenditure , can be related to antipathy towards property taxation . |
| 8 | In spite of a number of important publications in the early 1980s which sought to take Edwardian Conservatism seriously , notably the work of Geoffrey Searle , Alan Sykes , and Gregory Phillips , the Conservative party remained the Cinderella of Edwardian historiography , languishing in the shadows while its ugly sisters , the Liberal and Labour parties , hogged the limelight . |
| 9 | A government immigration decree was issued in 1990 which sought to restrict foreign investors from entering the retail trade and other sectors of the economy . |
| 10 | This was in part due to the emergence of New Unionism which sought to organize unskilled workers . |
| 11 | Their advice defined political unions as those attempting to follow Community Party policies which sought to replace enterprise-specific agreements with inter-industry collective bargaining in order to widen the class struggle . |
| 12 | In order to gain hegemonic support , the Conservative Government had to establish a moral position which sought to comfort those sections of the British electorate concerned about the changing political and moral climate . |
| 13 | The accord , which sought to end political violence , was agreed by 31 parties , including religious and business groups . |
| 14 | Act 1919 , which encouraged adjacent districts to co-ordinate their plans , and the Town and Country Planning Act 1932 , which sought to encourage local action to regulate activities in both the town and county ( Sheail 1981 ) . |
| 15 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 16 | In 1971 Lady Onslow was working as a volunteer for Teamwork Associates , a charity which sought to keep ex-Borstal boys on the straight and narrow . |
| 17 | At its hard edge it is critical of the threat of socialism itself , but it is also critical of Keynesianism — that theory of economic management which dominated the political consensus from the Second World War to the mid-seventies and which sought to maintain full(ish) levels of employment on the basis of governments managing the economy by manipulating the level of demand by putting money into , or taking it out of , the economy . |
| 18 | In May 1989 I first introduced a ten-minute rule Bill — the Public Service Contract Bill — which sought to establish minimum standards of public service with automatic compensation for failure . |
| 19 | No mention of private Bills would be complete without paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest ( Sir P. McNair-Wilson ) for the way in which he chaired the Committee which sought to untangle this web . |
| 20 | In 1525 , parliament was sufficiently alarmed by ‘ the damnable opinions of heresy ’ of ‘ the heretic Luther and his disciples ’ to pass the first of the acts which sought to prevent Lutheran literature being brought into the kingdom . |
| 21 | In a hard-hitting editorial , the journal 's editors challenge the effectiveness of the Zimbabwe government 's new Economic Structural Adjustment Programme ( ESAP ) which promised to create more jobs and opportunities for ordinary people . |
| 22 | While the Conciliation Committee fiddled , a conflagration threatened at Liverpool which promised to set all Britain 's ports alight . |
| 23 | That famous churchman Arnold of Rugby put a stamp upon independent education which helped to produce this consequence . |
| 24 | The well-established practice , which helped to avoid wrongful identification and risks of libel action , should not be departed from for the benefit of the comfort and feelings of defendants . |
| 25 | Kenny Scharf belongs to a group of East Village artists which came to notice ten years ago and included Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat . |
| 26 | But it was Eusebius who rounded off these hints into an image which came to dominate fourth-century minds . |
| 27 | Nevertheless there was one event of this year which seemed to lift such worries front him , and to help cure all his infirmities except that of age . |
| 28 | His expression wicked , he continued the stare which seemed to strip poor McAllister of her clothing , a stare so cruel that Dr Neil immediately saw its import and began to bridle at the sight , putting out a protective hand to his beloved , to feel her tremble beneath it . |
| 29 | They were loath to convict , especially in cases which seemed to contradict common law . |
| 30 | Although the surprise which seemed to greet these changes now seems misplaced , they represented significant alterations in the way heads and others were to manage education . |