Example sentences of "which [vb past] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the argicultural parishes which produced the smallest percentages . |
| 2 | And , without waiting for a reply to his question about whether she gave Morton tacit approval for the book which became the biggest seller in the history of royal publishing , Philip went on to accuse his daughter-in-law of putting the dignity of the Crown at risk . |
| 3 | In some cases customers would demand more Champagne than woollens which led the sharpest businessmen to quickly diversify into this lucrative new commerce . |
| 4 | It also owned 17 ships , and shared ownership of four more with the L & YR , which owned the largest fleet . |
| 5 | A serious blow , of course , was also dealt to the reputation of the Labour Party , which controlled many of the councils with the greatest needs and which made the heaviest demands on the public purse , and whose members were least apologetic about doing so . |
| 6 | He maintained that an interest in chemistry was inborn in Germans , who also possessed a ‘ cold-blooded spirit of research , slow but accurate reflection and unremitting patience ’ , which made the best chemists . |
| 7 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 8 | Mount Stromboli was the firework which got the biggest applause from the Astra box . |
| 9 | Kenneth Leventhal , which reported the highest growth rate in the top 10 , at 9.7% , specialises in real estate . |
| 10 | Those parts of the laws of war which retained the greatest importance and practical relevance were the parts relating to the protection of individuals in the adversary 's hands : prisoners of war , civilians in occupied territory , and so on . |
| 11 | It was the thermal load — cooking , water heating and electric fires — which created the greatest challenge for the industry 's domestic sales strategy . |
| 12 | The discipline within anthropology which maintained the closest relation to material culture studies was archaeology , which has always been highly dependent upon such studies , since its task of resurrecting ancient societies is based in large measure on the interpretation of the material remains excavated from those societies . |
| 13 | The underlying motivation behind this selection was that of all the sentences this was the one which provided the neatest summary of the entire story . |
| 14 | Because there were relatively few situations which received the highest risk ratings it is not possible to clearly assess whether this increase continues for all ratings , there is some evidence that it may not since once one unusual subject 's data was removed the three situations receiving the highest subjective risk ratings were in fact never recalled . |
| 15 | The results for the junction which received the highest risk ratings , junction 9 , will be considered to illustrate this , see Table 4.4 . |
| 16 | The statement which received the strongest approval was one that claimed that the monarchy benefited tourism . |
| 17 | It was the new technique of analysis , typology , which caused the greatest shift of emphasis , in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it was radio which played the greatest role in the development of music . |
| 19 | I ran into the house and upstairs into Mrs Goreng 's dressing-room , which commanded the best view . |
| 20 | They sailed round the shoreline of the harbour until they came to a small bay with a large waterfall over which cascaded the purest water . |
| 21 | Using highly mobile soldiers to avoid battle , Bruce used the physical geography of Scotland to make conditions as difficult as he could for the English who , risking starvation and ambush , had to be very careful not to overstretch themselves and to keep open their lines of communication as best they could through the control of castles , in particular the vital one at Stirling , which dominated the lowest point at which the river Forth could be crossed by bridge . |
| 22 | It was precisely for this purpose that the United States Government obstructed the carrying out of the Moscow Agreement on Korea , which envisaged the speediest creation of an independent Korean democratic State . |
| 23 | Even the Daily Mail , which deployed the clearest use of ‘ race ’ and ‘ outside agitator ’ arguments , ran a major story on Broadwater Farm under the headline : ‘ Burnt-out hulks litter this concrete jungle … despair hangs heavy ’ ( 8 October 1985 ) . |
| 24 | 3 They question the extent to which the system provides for representative governments noting not just the underrepresentation of third parties , but the fact that , in the elections of 1929 , 1951 , and February 1974 , the party which returned the largest number of MPs actually had a smaller share of the vote than the runner-up party in the Commons so that the electoral " winner " was , in fact , the governmental " loser " . |
| 25 | ( It was , of course , the load at peak times which imposed the highest costs on the system , partly because it was then that the least efficient power stations were used for generating , but principally because , since electricity could not be stored , it was the peak load which determined expenditure on new capacity . ) |
| 26 | In Glasgow a fortuitous coalition of interests between a new Convenor or Housing Committee , a principal housing officer and a flamboyant local designer produced a remarkable decade of high-rise building , which included the highest blocks in Europe at Red Road . |
| 27 | The list of the 100 shows which grabbed the biggest audiences in the past 12 months has episodes of EastEnders and Coronation Street in the top five places . |
| 28 | But it was the gruelling work schedule Kylie was now working which placed the greatest strain according to friends . |
| 29 | Yep , the stunning Turrican 2 emulates its predecessor which took the Best Game award last year . |
| 30 | It was the plan for the City of London ( 1947 ) , presented to the Court of Common Council by consultants Charles Holden and William Holford , Professor of Town Planning at Liverpool University , which took the furthest strides in design proposals . |