Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the Jews of the biblical period , they of course knew of Yavan , which designated all the Greeks rather than specifically the Ionians . |
| 2 | Within a year his civil servants produced a document called " The Basic Principles for the Reform of the Courts " , which recommended all the steps Panin and Bludov had resisted for twenty years . |
| 3 | The two are not closely associated , because the white star is the closer to us by some 15 light-years , though presumably both condensed out of the same nebula which produced all the rest of the Hyades . |
| 4 | A criminal court which admitted such a defence would never hear the end of it . |
| 5 | The Banking Acts 1979 and 1987 respectively established and continued the Deposit Protection Board and the Deposit Protection Fund , from which the board was obliged to pay a depositor in an authorised bank which became insolvent an amount equal to three-quarters of the amount of his deposit , in accordance with section 58(1) of the Act of 1987 , limited to a maximum deposit of £20,000 . |
| 6 | We might imagine a project in which a coordinating team was actually hampered by rules of procedure which became such a straitjacket of red tape that , for example , otherwise admirable proposals might be unacceptable on a technicality . |
| 7 | It was not until the early years of the twentieth century that they had devised a formula for their boot polish which was marketed later under the name of ‘ Cherry Blossom Boot Polish ’ which became such a success , being sold at one penny per tin . |
| 8 | Its far end was crossed by busy Morley Street before continuing on to Lower Ashgrove , which led all the way to Grandma 's house in Lansdowne Place . |
| 9 | As a result , from the end of the seventeenth century onwards both Houses increasingly demanded to be informed about the negotiations with foreign States which made necessary the taxation and borrowing to which they were being asked to agree . |
| 10 | Significantly , my own memory is only of the large wave-forms which made such a maelstrom possible . |
| 11 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 12 | Certainly the grave demeanour which made such an impression upon others — the " sad eyes " and the " deep , sad voice " — was lifted in the company of friends to reveal a playful and often funny man . |
| 13 | His father , Samuel Whitbread I , who died in 1796 , left a legacy which made possible the building of the Bedford Infirmary ( later to become South Wing ) a few years later . |
| 14 | In addition to the influence of Solesmes Abbey , there was the scholarship of men such as Briggs , Frere , Palmer and Arnold , reflected in the publications of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin at Wantage which made possible the recovery of plainsong for English congregations , parochial as well as religious . |
| 15 | A settlor had only to make sure that he chose a word which made clear an intention on his part that a trust obligation should arise in the trustee . |
| 16 | On the contrary , for all the general flow of tranquillity and prosperity , a number of specific themes consistently emerged which made this a time of anxiety , even torment . |
| 17 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 18 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 19 | My right cheek has certainly been placed with admirable exactness under the focus of some invisible burning-glass , which concentrated all the rays of a Tartarean sun . |
| 20 | And then , as Morrison Halcrow describes it in his new biography of Lord Joseph , Sir Keith ( as he then was ) made that celebrated 1974 speech which created such a storm . |
| 21 | Which drew all the strands of all that they 'd learnt together . |
| 22 | You just ran that file which provided all the functions for that piece of software . |
| 23 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 24 | Does he agree that any Department which adopted such a policy would have the grateful thanks of a vast number of women ? |
| 25 | It was a huge red machine which ate all the corn the farm-workers could feed it . |
| 26 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
| 27 | Channel 4 said the three illustrations which caused all the upset would never have been transmitted in any case without further editing . |
| 28 | The Bill was referred to a Committee under the chairmanship of Lord Alverstone , which deleted the words ‘ or water ’ but added the equivocal expression which caused all the trouble . |
| 29 | Many objections were voiced against the proposed deal which caused such a storm that it was dropped within days of the news breaking . |
| 30 | A revision of electoral lists had not taken place since 1985 , contrary to the Constitution which stipulated such a revision every three years . |