Example sentences of "which had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both President Menem and Mr Gonzalez scorned the endlessly complex theories which had plagued economic policy in Argentina for decades , persuading one government after another to impose controls on everything . |
| 2 | The core of the Octobrist party , which had suffered major defections to the Right , and a new Progressive party , led by a group of Moscow industrialists , moved close to the Kadets , who in turn intensified their opposition to the government . |
| 3 | The meeting approved the creation of a US$10,000 million development fund for Arab countries which had supported the coalition in the Gulf war and which had suffered economic damage from the war ; Egypt and Syria were likely to be the main beneficiaries . |
| 4 | Neighbouring countries also began airlifting food and medical supplies to the Trinidadian capital of Port of Spain which had suffered extensive damage during the coup attempt . |
| 5 | This was achieved despite a decline in output in the great grain-growing provinces of Liaoning and Jilin , which had suffered severe drought earlier in the year . |
| 6 | The workers ' faith has not been repaid this week — in a region which had escaped many of the severe job cuts which had hit other cities . |
| 7 | The action lacked that forceful superiority which had characterized Carolingian capitularies , at least in the time of Charlemagne ; but it revived the tradition whereby the crown was seen as the author of society 's moral norms . |
| 8 | The government 's attitude , and its relation to feminists and purists , displayed all the hesitations and ambiguities which had characterized similar debates in the 1880s . |
| 9 | The same sort of guilt by association which had tainted Keynesian economics in the wake of the Phillips curve débâcle has tainted the rational expectations hypothesis owing to its close connection , through Keynesian eyes , with the policy inefficacy proposition of the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 10 | The FDIC was already weak from helping to bail out a large number of savings and loan institutions ( the so-called " thrifts " ) , some of which had lost large sums through misguided speculation or outright corruption [ see p. 36843 ; 37412 ] . |
| 11 | Aelfflaed 's question to Cuthbert reveals the ambition of this family , which had possessed royal power continuously for fifty years since 634 or 635 , to hold on to it . |
| 12 | On 4 June , the same crowds which had filled Happy Valley with rallies of pop music and bright colours gathered , now in mourning clothes of black and white . |
| 13 | Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats . |
| 14 | Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it . |
| 15 | The first half of the 18th century had seemed kind enough : improved climatic conditions and better harvests had combined with the disappearance of bubonic plague to help curtail the mortality crises which had beset Northern Europe up until then . |
| 16 | There were five dams built , none of which had to undergo frequent repairs , and the total expenditure incurred by the project up to the end of 1987 was $1.4 billion , not $14 billion as the article asserts . |
| 17 | Earlier Hartlepool Labour candidate Peter Mandelson urged Mr Lilley to admit it was his party 's policies which had created mass unemployment in the town . |
| 18 | Labour candidate Peter Mandelson urged him to admit that it was his party 's policies which had created mass unemployment in the town . |
| 19 | Since , in 1850 , the one bastion of that order which had escaped major trouble in 1848 was the Russian Empire , it was likely that at some point France would throw down the gauntlet to the tsar . |
| 20 | Reports indicated that resistance to further cuts in production had come principally from Saudi Arabia which had withstood similar pressure in March [ see p. 38122 ] . |
| 21 | Russia 's intended sale of diesel submarines to Iran , which had aroused strong US opposition , was delayed as a result of a dispute over trade payments , according to a Russian announcement on Sept. 25 . |
| 22 | This chapter concludes by examining the ways in which the notions of , maturity and masculinity which had Sustained professional links between English and Englishness were challenged from a range of pluralist , marxist , feminist , and other cultural perspectives during the 1970s , which , in the context of a counter assault from the new right , culminated in the symbolic " Cambridge Crisis " of 1981 . |
| 23 | Abolition of the rule preventing practice under limited liability has led to very considerable growth in this form of organisation and , by 1988 , the proportion of practices which had formed limited liability companies had grown to 7.5 per cent of the total . |
| 24 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 25 | The most successful of the three accords was with Brazil , whose president Kubitschek needed both to find new export outlets and to conserve foreign exchange in the aftermath of a rapid industrial expansion policy which had placed severe strains on his country 's economy . |
| 26 | They lacked the menacing physical edge of the French loose trio , however , which had inflicted terrible damage on Wales 's budding stars . |
| 27 | Under some circumstances federal prosecutors would be empowered to seek the death penalty even in the 14 states which had prohibited capital punishment . |
| 28 | By Aug. 24 , when the Security Council Military Staff Committee met , the USA had drafted a proposed resolution which would give UN legitimacy to the use of the necessary force to maintain a blockade , but which would leave the decision on such interventions to the naval command ( i.e. to the US Navy , in practice , or the British or French , since it was expected that those other countries which had contributed naval forces on a smaller scale would wish to avoid this controversial step ) . |
| 29 | Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven faced severe criticism after he commented lightly on Nov. 6 , 1989 , on the extent of devastation and relief effort following Typhoon " Gay " which had struck southern Thailand on Nov. 3-4 . |
| 30 | His opportunity to counter the French threat came in the Low Countries , an area which had witnessed English intervention against France almost half a century earlier . |