Example sentences of "which [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative , which operated in the UK from 1925 — 31 , is that the central bank is not prepared to convert banknotes into gold for domestic residents but is willing to convert such paper into gold for foreigners . |
| 2 | This scheme has replaced transitional relief which operated in the year 1990–91 . |
| 3 | A little earlier the mother of Dr Neil 's surgery boy , who carried out the doctor 's errands on the bicycle which lived in the outhouse , had come to say that Eddie had broken his arm and would not be fit to carry out his duties . |
| 4 | The poet William Dunbar , born in East Lothian and educated at St Andrews , celebrated James 's marriage to Margaret Tudor of England — a liaison which led in the fullness of time to the Stewart succession to the throne of England — with a poem , The Thistle and the Rose , and summed up his entourage thus : |
| 5 | First was the economics of the New Right , which led in the direction of competition , user choice , and the break-up of multi-functional bureacracies into decentralised units ( such as the " Next Steps " initiative in the Civil Service ) . |
| 6 | From 1885 there was also a flourishing Band of Hope which met in the Tabernacle with an average attendance of 99 by the year 1889 . |
| 7 | There was also a Court , to resolve disputes , and an Assembly ( which met in the Council of Europe 's chamber in Strasbourg ) to provide a democratic element in what was already criticised as an over-bureaucratic organisation . |
| 8 | To publicise the event , a giant red tomato which glowed in the dark , was installed on the outside of the Bank building . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) The purpose of this provision , which re-enacts the corresponding provision of the 1959 Act , is to deal with the situation which arose in the case of Buchanan , 1910 S.C . |
| 10 | This wider context of the developments at university and LEA levels is necessary for an adequate understanding of the difficulties which arose in the years immediately prior to the 1939–45 war between the Cambridge Board and the District as there were serious implications for the National WEA if the District 's problems had not been resolved through protracted , patient and complex negotiations . |
| 11 | In 1935 he helped to form the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company , and thus facilitated the development of the Hurricane aircraft which fought in the Battle of Britain ( 1940 ) . |
| 12 | Four cDNAs yielded a protein which comigrated in the EMSA with the N-Oct 3 protein of a human brain extract . |
| 13 | Apart from Rowe , City were also denied by an upright , which got in the way of a volley from Tony Rogers . |
| 14 | The flocks of sheep which grazed in the pastures near the villa were similar to the Soay breed — hardy creatures which produced milk and hard-wearing wool . |
| 15 | It should also be pointed out that the Crown , in the shape of the Ministry of Defence , has said that no objection would be raised to Dr. Hayes giving evidence in strictly controlled circumstances similar to those which applied in the case of evidence furnished by Mr. Feraday in accordance with an agreement dated 22 August 1991 exhibited to an affidavit of Mr. David Brummell dated 13 April 1992 . |
| 16 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee can not get SMP . |
| 17 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee is not entitled to SMP . |
| 18 | The climb-down by the pro-mining countries came in the wake of dramatic reversals of position by Germany and Japan , which announced in the days leading up to the agreement that they would support the prohibition of mining . |
| 19 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 20 | There was a thud as it hit his body , which rose in the air , fell across the bonnet of the van , then was tossed forward on to the paving stones . |
| 21 | In some ways , the instability of national politics was mirrored in the resignations which occurred in the M. C. R. Executive . |
| 22 | This tells us water temperatures were changing and we believe this represents a major almenial event which occurred in the year seventeen forty seven . |
| 23 | Against this monologic Amis can be set , by way of alter ego , the modernistic Amis of Barbara Everett 's discussion of Difficulties with girls , which occurred in the course of an essay on Hugh Kenner 's fantasy of a British betrayal of Modernism , and which springs the surprise of conveying that Amis , so often supposed an enemy of Modernism , is really a Modernist . |
| 24 | Similar passions can be detected at the Election of 1710 , which occurred in the aftermath of the Sacheverell affair . |
| 25 | Mr Smith said forcing political parties to make public contributions would prevent ‘ the breaches of company law which occurred in the case of Mr Nadir , whose companies apparently made seven illegal donations to the Conservatives . ’ |
| 26 | The motive for the attack , which occurred in the vicinity of de Ronceray 's house in Port-au-Prince , was unclear , but one possible explanation was that Neptune — who was travelling in a car similar to that owned by de Ronceray — was mistaken for the opposition figure . |
| 27 | This first edition has two chapters 28 owing to a mistake which occurred in the printing of the monthly numbers and remained uncorrected until the appearance of PP in the Cheap Edition . |
| 28 | Puppies are unable to relate to an event which occurred in the past , so if you find that a place has been soiled overnight there is little point in scolding the puppy accordingly . |
| 29 | It was argued earlier that man , a creature with unprepossessing qualities for higher social development , became capable of that development because of traumatic social changes which occurred in the past but whose impact was so immense that they have shaped human nature down to the present and have been the determining influences on the evolution of culture , whose function , by and large , is the transmission of the consequences of these primal , traumatic experiences to subsequent generations in the form of ego , and , most especially , superego , development . |
| 30 | Social psychoanalysis , by contrast , takes the view that contemporary character should not merely be explained by reference to contemporary culture and childrearing , but that in any society contemporary childrearing and culture are the consequences of historical changes and that the contemporary individual recapitulates the cultural past and therefore , by a sort of reverse neoteny , experiences in his childhood the traumas and stages of ego- and superego-development which occurred in the adult lives of his ancestors . |