Example sentences of "which [vb past] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |
| 2 | So , for instance , the Crowther Report of 1959 on the education of 15-18-year-olds talked about the likelihood that middle-class girls would combine a career with motherhood and marriage and the necessity for them to receive an education which prepared them for this future dual role . |
| 3 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 4 | ‘ Bardolet 's co-driver made a timing error on the last rally which dropped them from first to fourth and that cost them the lead in the championship , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 5 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 6 | During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact . |
| 7 | On the Sunday I met my parents and , courtesy of Jack , handed over sponsor 's tickets which allowed them into any part of the course and the clubhouse and also provided tickets for lunch . |
| 8 | Back then he had argued with his son : had denied Yuan 's insistence that they were the gaolers of Tsao Ch'un 's City , the inheritors of a system which shaped them for ill . |
| 9 | Linking the Midlands manufacturers to London by canal undoubtedly assisted the sending of goods to the capital , but conversely the canals which linked them to other major ports sometimes removed their need to send as many goods through London . |
| 10 | Rod Hale and Grant Parrott both sustained injuries which incapacitated them in various ways . |
| 11 | Those who were not hard pressed and in no immediate danger of running at a considerable loss might have no strong incentive to vote in favour of a course which threatened them with heavy losses in the immediate future . |
| 12 | Military authorities often performed the duties of the judiciary : " civilians found themselves facing court martial because they fell into one of the categories — 41 in all — which placed them within military jurisdiction " . |
| 13 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 14 | The Victorian was an integral part of a Northants revival which took them from 13th in the Championship table in 1951 to second place , behind the all-conquering Surrey combination , in 1957 . |
| 15 | They belong to the British Museum , which bought them in 1816 from Lord Elgin , as every schoolboy knows . |
| 16 | And they ca n't rely on goal difference , which saved them from Third Division football in 1938 . |
| 17 | And they ca n't rely on goal difference , which saved them from Third Division football in 1938 . |
| 18 | And this was only a part of the ceremonial which surrounded the office with glamour and reminded the king 's subjects that he was God 's anointed — a notion which inspired them with great awe , when they were not actually engaged in rebellion against him . |
| 19 | The same year , the society received thirteen massive Assyrian bas-reliefs from the palace of Sardanapalus in Nineveh c.650 B.C. from James Lenox ( one of the founders of the New York Public Library ) and in 1859–60 , the Society purchased a large collection of Egyptian art ( featuring several mummified bulls ) from British physician Dr Henry Abbott for $60,000 ( since 1937 , these have been at the Brooklyn Museum , which purchased them from Flemish the Historical Society in 1978 ) . |
| 20 | In order to extricate himself Rafsanjani gave details of the entire American arms-supply operation to the Lebanese magazine Al-Shiraa which published them on 3 November , the day after Jacobsen 's release . |