Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] 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 legal process which followed ended with the Supreme Court 's decision on July 17 . |
| 4 | The mass of new information which started to accumulate with the pre-war coalfield revision was greatly augmented during the wartime period . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The offices of the Forestry Commission , which had co-operated with the survey teams , were also invaded . |
| 9 | The BDA , which had co-operated with the BBC in making it , answered more than four thousand enquiries for information following the broadcast . |
| 10 | The separatist Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) , which had co-operated with the EPRDF in a strategic alliance to bring down the Mengistu government , announced on May 29 that it was to set up its own provisional government in Eritrea , although it would recognize and co-operate with the EPRDF administration in Addis Ababa . |
| 11 | Rival militant groups which had co-operated with the Indian forces were effectively relegated to politics in exile . |
| 12 | Wild built the tower for the Manchester , Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway , which had merged with the Grimsby Docks Company and brought the railway here in 1848 . |
| 13 | The trial of Sir Terence and the charges against Sir Joh were indicative of the depth of corruption associated with the National Party 's 30 years in office in Queensland which had ended with the party 's electoral defeat in 1989 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | From another it was simply teased out tragedy which had begun with the cruelly pragmatic strangulation of the Inca ( King ) Atahualpa in Cajamarca , followed by the systematic looting of the empire 's wealth and the suffering of its peoples till the Inca kingdom was reduced to the forest sanctuary of Vilcabamba . |
| 16 | The empire was in a state of decline which had begun with the havoc wrought in 1204 by the Fourth Crusade and was made worse by internal conflicts . |
| 17 | The decision followed a 10-year legal battle which had begun with the filing of a suit claiming that a prefectural assembly resolution urging visits to the shrine by the heads of government and state was unconstitutional . |
| 18 | The privatization programme , which had begun with the opening in June 1990 of the stock exchange [ see p. 37620 ] , was framed in legislation approved in September [ see p. 37724 ] and was the responsibility of the State Property Agency ( SPA ) , which was accused of bureaucracy and delaying tactics caused by an insistence on competitive bidding . |
| 19 | Abolition of the Provisions and reform of the Constitution were , therefore , a crucial part of the process of political liberalization which had started with the ending of martial law in July 1987 [ see p. 35378 ] . |
| 20 | The Sun warmed the bones , but it was the seeds which grew , feeding on the marrow in all the bones , which had cracked with the frost . |
| 21 | It was a testimonial for a funeral parlour which had dealt with the victims of a forest fire . |
| 22 | So a legend which had originated with the attempts of Dark Age royal servants to give their masters a lineage as old and distinguished as that of the Western Roman emperors they had displaced continued in the twelfth century to satisfy the needs of new royal families and even of some princely houses . |
| 23 | In 1934 he joined the Confessing Church , the wing of the national ( Lutheran ) Church which refused to compromise with the Hitler government . |