Example sentences of "which [vb past] [to-vb] with the " in BNC.

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1 The classic example of this is the Victorian Poor Law which tried to deal with the very obvious social problems of poverty .
2 And that nose which seemed to sharpen with the years made her look predatory …
3 The mass of new information which started to accumulate with the pre-war coalfield revision was greatly augmented during the wartime period .
4 Commentators also made the point that while the Bonn meeting referred to East-West co-operation , effective agreements and trade treaties came within the sphere of activity of the European Communities , which preferred to negotiate with the East European countries individually .
5 The development of a form of representative democracy in the nineteenth century led Dicey to distinguish between legal sovereignty , which continued to reside with the triumvirate of the monarch , Lords , and Commons , and political sovereignty , which he deemed to rest with the electorate .
6 During the eighteenth century imported black-and-whites from Jutland became the foundation of the British Friesian , which continued to develop with the help of imports from the Netherlands at intervals and also imports from South Africa ( 1922 ) and Canada ( 1946 onwards ) .
7 As a member of the cabinet which had to cope with the Irish famine , Clanricarde pressed hard for remedial measures , pointing out that from time to time ‘ an adherence to sound principle will cause an immediate sacrifice ’ .
8 In 1934 he joined the Confessing Church , the wing of the national ( Lutheran ) Church which refused to compromise with the Hitler government .
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