Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a spokesman for Wrekin council , which admitted losing 600 protesters ' letters , said : ‘ There is nothing like it in Europe . |
| 2 | Political unrest in Yugoslavia could have spelt bad news for Airtours , which planned to send 7,000 sunseekers there this summer . |
| 3 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 4 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
| 5 | Among their little exercises in search of conclusions was that which involved asking 55 schoolchildren to list expressions meaning stupid person . |
| 6 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Following the threat of a national rail strike , Schimberni was obliged to suspend the proposal , which envisaged cutting 29,000 jobs , and to enter into discussions with the labour organizations . |
| 9 | One of the first opposition parties to be legalized ( on Sept. 12 , 1989-see p. 36905 ) was the fundamentalist Front islamique du salut ( FIS ) , which claimed to have 3,000,000 members . |
| 10 | As a result of a concerted campaign , which included replacing nine area offices with four regional ones and which is still continuing , a clear six per cent was slashed off the 1991 cost base , bringing the cost ratio down from 19.2 per cent to 15.9 per cent in 1992 . |
| 11 | Up for analysis here is a photograph of the event , an image which managed to scandalise one section of the audience while seducing the other : it was a moment of transgression . |
| 12 | Further to the report on proposals for Egerton Quarry in Lancashire ( February Compass ) , the article which appeared to cover one quarry was in fact describing issues arising at two separate sites . |
| 13 | Generally the scope for such arrangements is least in departments dominated by HQ units engaged in policy work , and greatest in those with extensive local networks ( such as the DHSS which had developed 800 cost centres by 1984 , with individual managers having ‘ to bid for their requirements ’ and enjoying flexibility to switch funds between budget heads ) ( Progress in Financial Management in Government Departments , 1984 , pp. 62–3 ) . |
| 14 | In May 1964 , Councillor T. J. McCabe compared Derry 's housing record unfavourably with that of Lisburn in County Antrim which had built 1,556 corporation and NIHT houses since World War 11 . |
| 15 | But they did not know that in the beginning , as Mrs Irving expatiated in her cracked and gracious voice on the high brick wall which dated from the Civil War , and earlier still , which had formed one boundary of General Fairfax 's lands when Putney was a separate village , when Cromwell 's Trained Bands assembled there , when the Putney Debates on liberty of conscience were held in St Mary 's Church on the bridge . |
| 16 | Ridley had stated in an interview with the right-wing Spectator magazine which had appeared two days previously that European economic and monetary union was " a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe " and must be " thwarted " . |
| 17 | She was admitted to hospital on 21 January because of a productive cough and mild dyspnoea which had appeared four days earlier . |
| 18 | COMICAL ’ and ‘ absurd ’ was how Jean-Paul Rappeneau greeted the news that the Oscar for the best foreign film had gone not to his ‘ Cyrano de Bergerac ’ , which had received five nominations , but to a Turkish-speaking Swiss film , ‘ Journey of Hope ’ . |
| 19 | The agreement , first reached in September 1991 and concluded in December [ see pp. 38414 ; 38672 ] officially ended the 11-year civil war which had cost 75,000 lives . |
| 20 | She pushed her glasses back up her nose , clamped her mouth shut firmly , and picked up the hard-backed novel , which had cost six dollars and fifty cents of the Committee 's small funds . |
| 21 | Three days previously Lemos had publicly declared that the UP was the political arm of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FARC ) left-wing guerrilla group which had killed 17 soldiers on March 5 in a campaign to disrupt congressional and local elections [ see below ] . |
| 22 | In further indications of increasing openness , Tirana radio on Nov. 23 , 1989 , reported the crash of two helicopters the previous day which had killed 23 people ; incidents of this kind had hitherto not been reported in the Albanian media . |
| 23 | It sounds as if an officious enumerator was at work in 1861 ; he insisted on the full name Clementina rather than the pet form Clemmey , which had sufficed ten years earlier . |
| 24 | The signature of the accord raised hopes for the early reopening of the giant Panguna copper mine on the island , which had employed 2,000 people and provided 40 per cent of PNG 's export revenue before its enforced closure in May 1989 . |
| 25 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 26 | BA has already replaced pins on 24 aircraft which had reached 3,000 take-offs . |
| 27 | The salvage company which had raised 28,000 pieces said : ‘ We will not have to take any back to Vietnam . ’ |
| 28 | The Kurds were being attacked by Turkey , which had sent 3,000 paratroopers to launch assaults on both sides of the Turkey-Iraq border . |
| 29 | The Catholic Church announced on Nov. 27 the closure of its Solidarity Vicariate , the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 , which had devoted 18 years to defending the victims of political repression . |
| 30 | The respondents were the joint receivers of the assets of Carron Co Ltd , a company which had purchased 67,423 kg of steel strip from the appellants without having paid the purchase price of £71,769 . |