Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this element of unreality which made tunnelling the most popular scheme for escape . |
| 2 | George was adept at reading entries in directories official lists and Who 's Whos from many countless which tried to skip the most interesting parts of a subject 's life . |
| 3 | Hitherto they had deliberately promoted internally , which served to reinforce the already strong personal loyalty . |
| 4 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 5 | It is the result of a three-year development programme , undertaken by the Department of Office Administration , which aimed to turn the highly successful SCOTVEC Secretarial Courses into a progressive , integrated and equally attractive course provision which would meet the demands of the 1990s . |
| 6 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 7 | Observers agreed , however , that it was the pro-mining delegations which had given the most ground . |
| 8 | The report was seen partly as a response to a document published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) which had criticized the socially destructive effects of World Bank-supported SAPs [ see pp. 36991-92 ] . |
| 9 | Dr. Elliott detects in it ‘ a desire by the composer to accommodate progressive ideas about clear word-setting and harmonic , chordal idioms ’ : he has elsewhere invoked the violent and repressive political climate of the time , and seen an attempt by Carver to compromise — in a period of Protestant fundamentalism which had limited the formerly sumptuous musical presentations in the Chapel Royal to plainchant and Faburden improvised upon it — with the strictly harmonically-conceived music of English Reformation composers . |
| 10 | The largest sum of $39 million came from Monsanto , which had sent the most toxic chemicals to landfill . |
| 11 | This was typical ‘ normal science ’ — the very necessary filling-in operation which had to follow the categorically original discoveries made a few years earlier by the chief . |
| 12 | Mr Smith refused to disclose the names of the shops in Darlington which had failed the environmentally friendly fridge test . |