Example sentences of "which had [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to official messages , the ‘ modernisers ’ still had the upper hand and the reform programme was set to continue in spite of the economic and social problems which had troubled the leaders throughout 1988 . |
| 2 | Whereas the massive unemployment which had plagued the interwar period has at least served to keep the lid on money wages , the switch to Keynesian policies , with their emphasis on the objective of maintaining full employment , might open a Pandora 's box of inflationary money wage claims . |
| 3 | Regarding the strikes , disputes and restrictive practices which had plagued the Dublin plant , these were all unfortunate legacies of the British system which had been foisted upon the Irish since before the First World War . |
| 4 | The impact had caused a massive explosion which had ravaged the planet . |
| 5 | On 4 May Parliament endorsed the declaration of war on France and Spain , thereby becoming involved in the War of the Spanish Succession , which had followed the attempts of Louis XIV to install his grandson on the throne of Spain , and his invasion of Holland . |
| 6 | His success depended upon the general agreement on atomic weights and formulae which had followed the Karlsruhe Conference of 1860 ; after the conference delegates had read the paper of S. Cannizzaro , and came to agree with its recommendations . |
| 7 | He was replying to Ernie Ross , Labour MP for Dundee West , who said the workers had lost their jobs after a disputes procedure which had followed the Government 's employment law to the letter . |
| 8 | He was replying to Ernie Ross , Labour MP for Dundee West , who said the workers had lost their jobs after a disputes procedure which had followed the Government 's employment law to the letter . |
| 9 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 10 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 11 | There were celebrations in the streets following the radio announcement , with no reports of the looting and violence , engendered by hatred of the deposed regime , which had followed the coup in Ciskei in March [ ibid . ] . |
| 12 | Again there was a problem of lawlessness even greater than the average over the country as a whole , exacerbated by the disorders which had followed the Glyn Dwr revolt . |
| 13 | In the euphoria which had followed the victory over France , there was even some talk that when the war was over the Party would be dissolved by the Wehrmacht and Germany would become a ‘ pure military state ’ . |
| 14 | The softening of the US stance reflected the increased diplomatic contact with the New Zealand government which had followed the replacement of Prime Minister David Lange by his Labour Party colleague Geoffrey Palmer in August 1989 [ see p. 36852 ] . |
| 15 | The oligopolistic accommodation which had characterized the UK fertilizer industry was undermined in 1986 by the inflow of cheap urea imports . |
| 16 | The creation of a northern province ended Canterbury 's sole direction of the Anglo-Saxon Church , which had characterized the archiepiscopates of Theodore and Beorhtwald , and an important stage in the development of the Church in England was reached with the establishment of the Northumbrian kingdom as an independent ecclesiastical community within the Catholic order of western Europe . |
| 17 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , by this time the violence provoked by the new anti-Semitic wave and incited by propaganda had put the ‘ Jewish Question ’ back in a high place on the agenda , and pressure was mounting from within the Party for anti-Semitic legislation to fulfil the aims of the Party programme , and from the public for regulations to put an end to the ‘ individual actions ’ which had characterized the summer of violence . |
| 19 | North also testified that Poindexter had destroyed a document signed by the then President , Ronald Reagan , which had characterized the shipment as an arms-for-hostages arrangement . |
| 20 | And intermarriage is something which had characterized the age of the tyrants , epitomized by the party given by Kleisthenes of Sikyon for his daughter Agariste 's suitors ( Hdt. vi . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the crude and uncomplicated alliance between State and nobility which had characterized the heyday of Tsarism could never be the same again . |
| 22 | Whilst swearing to uphold the country 's 1987 Constitution , he emphasised that his election marked a break with the past and promised to combat the greed and corruption which had characterized the county 's previous governments . |
| 23 | A similar pattern emerged at Southend — the school which had completed the exercise a year earlier . |
| 24 | The revised budget entailed a cut of some $1,100 million from the administration 's original $4,900 million request for the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI or " Star Wars " project , involving the use of space-based defences against ballistic missiles ) ; this cut represented a compromise with the Senate , which had acknowledged the need for reductions , but which had called instead on Sept. 27 for a cut of only $800,000,000 . |
| 25 | He was intrigued by the relationships between the presence of certain abnormal intestinal bacteria which had lost the ability to ferment glucose and the diseases suffered by the patients who harboured them . |
| 26 | And the conclusions : ‘ a realistic appraisal of conditions … leads to the conclusion that the only alternative open to the US was full-scale intervention on behalf of a Government which had lost the confidence of its own troops and its own people . |
| 27 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |
| 28 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 29 | Yakovlev had been editor of Moskovskiye novosti , a newspaper which had extended the boundaries of freedom of speech during the perestroika period , and had taken over the chairmanship of All-Union Television and Radio ( which became Ostankino in December 1991 " see p. 38655 ) in August 1991 after the failed coup [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 30 | The Birmingham Liberal Association was already regarded as a model of efficiency , following the success of its ‘ vote as you are told ’ campaign at the 1868 general election , which had secured the return of Liberal members for all of Birmingham 's three seats , but Schnadhorst fine-tuned its organization to an even higher pitch . |