Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain had its own discussions , spurred on by the Wootton Report on Drug Dependency , published in July 1969 , which recommended substantially reduced penalties for pot-smoking . |
| 2 | On 6 April the USA declared war on Germany and on the following 8 May a conference was held between the US Shipping Board , the US Steamship Owners and the US International Seamen 's Union which resulted in what became known as the " Atlantic Agreement " which laid down manning levels , wages and bonuses . |
| 3 | Those few councils which sought substantially to exceed government guidelines were brought sharply into line . |
| 4 | Limited which seemed mostly to involve advertising and but I 'd written off and told them their candidate was . |
| 5 | A dear friend of mine from Middlesbrough brought me a dog which turned out to have distemper , and he died . |
| 6 | ‘ I smelled as much ! ’ declared the newcomer , a remark which served only to inflame Dauntless 's discomfort . |
| 7 | All of which served merely to raise Frankenstein 's spirits . |
| 8 | Betty was wearing a dressing-gown , a circumstance which served further to upset Lydia , who nevertheless painted her mouth bright red to facilitate her smile and set about connecting the bottled gas to the stove . |
| 9 | On May 14 a joint communiqué was issued outlining the guiding principles for settling the demarcation of their common border , which included not using force to resolve the issue . |
| 10 | The reception in Tarland village hall had a buffet which included locally caught salmon followed by a ceilidh with dancing until the small hours . |
| 11 | Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove , in their book , The Wise Wound , show how the taboos surrounding menstruation in western culture are just as oppressive ( perhaps even more so ) as those of religious structures which lay down washing rituals . |
| 12 | On the English side , what was needed was an army to fulfil two essential functions : conquest and maintenance of that conquest , requirements which demanded both field armies and garrisons . |
| 13 | The context then was the electron microscope , which demanded accurately controlled sources of electrons , and lenses with well-defined focal properties . |
| 14 | Consistently ignoring the many Protestant MPs who advised him to lend his support to the various coalitions which grew up to curb Louis 's pretensions , Charles remained a close ally of the French king throughout his reign . |
| 15 | While I would not seek to question the decision of the judges of a number of the awards ( although you may note for the record , however , that there were a lot of eyebrows raised in the trade by the comments on and judging of Helpware magazine , which won both contract title of the year and runner-up to best consumer launch of the year in the 1992 Publishing Awards ) , I would like to question the appropriateness of the chairman of the judges presiding over a ceremony where his own company won the most number of awards . |
| 16 | In White and Collins v. Minister of Health ( C.A. , 1939 ) the Local Authority had certain powers of compulsory purchase in relation to land which did not form part of private parkland . |
| 17 | It is sitting as chairman or lay member of a tribunal which gives tribunals expertise , just as the senior barrister appointed to the Bench will soon acquire expertise in those areas of law which did not form part of his or her practice before appointment . |
| 18 | They stated that the government would spend half the revenues raised to pay debts and would cut expenditure in 1993 , including axing projects which did not generate jobs . |
| 19 | The offence was a one-off which did not affect convictions before or since , he added . |
| 20 | However , he said the spray being tested on the Edinburgh mice could be used on humans as it was a non-invasive treatment which did not involve surgery or injections . |
| 21 | The local police found no incriminating evidence at the scene and they believe that the theft , which did not involve office equipment and other items of value , was done by professionals . |
| 22 | The case was the first review of random testing of federal employees and the first in which the court upheld testing which did not involve workers concerned with public safety . |
| 23 | The community planner saw the NSLC as a strong and uniting force which did not create conflict between the neighbourhoods . |
| 24 | Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters . |
| 25 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 26 | In the event , PanAm , which did not serve Boston , seized the opportunity to introduce a London-New York-Boston ticket , in order to fly to New York on the lower Boston fare . |
| 27 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 28 | B : Inhibition of the binding of AR , RJ2.2.5 and Raji nuclear extracts to the X-box by anti-Fos antiserum ; binding reactions which did not contain anti-Fos ( — in lanes 3 , 6 and 9 ) were supplemented with 1 µg of non-immune antiserum . |
| 29 | This was necessary to create a convincing case for EC excise duty ‘ harmonisation ’ which did not penalise spirits . |
| 30 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |