Example sentences of "which [vb past] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a calm , modest , and patient man , which made it seem obvious that fly-fishing was his chosen hobby . |
| 2 | The road was bendy and twisty forming which made it look beautiful . |
| 3 | The black furry coat with which it was born and which helped it to keep warm during its first days is now sloughed off , revealing the shorter shiny coat which is more suitable for a swimmer . |
| 4 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 5 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 6 | In September 1715 , immediately after the death of Louis XIV , the Parlement of Paris had restored to it by the Regent , the Duc d'Orléans , the right of remonstrance which allowed it to impede royal legislation . |
| 7 | The concert and the reception which followed it generated considerable interest in , as well as funds for , the Alumni Foundation . |
| 8 | The December 1989 coup attempt and the abortive revolts which followed it damaged international investor confidence in the Philippines . |
| 9 | For Herbert and his fellow Arminians , therefore , the ‘ mean ’ way of English Protestantism was its ‘ praise and glory ’ , which enabled it to avoid all the worst excesses of its rivals . |
| 10 | When it failed to attract substantial readers , it faced a financial crisis which forced it to curtail some of its journalistic efforts . |
| 11 | Among those offering concrete commitments were National Westminster Bank , which said it took environmental issues into account when considering loan requests [ see ED 58 ] , and the Austin Reed clothing company , which claims to encourage its suppliers to meet environmental standards . |