Example sentences of "which had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee already had prematurely exalted views of its importance , for it deferred to the next meeting the question of how to apply to the King for royal patronage — patronage of an institution which had no actual existence . |
| 2 | She distrusted the offer of talks which had no other purpose than to string out negotiation . |
| 3 | It brought into play all his practical abilities ; in planning the event , articulating a programme of reform , and in directing its implementation he showed qualities of mind and will which had no other outlet . |
| 4 | The dank flat occupied by Marcus and Irina , which had no central heating , had become danker and greener , redeemed a little by a contingent of electric fires brought in by Ludens . |
| 5 | More importantly , the British courts were founded on the acceptance of abstract and impersonal principles which had no firm base in Sri Lanka . |
| 6 | Families which had no legal right of any sort to the land they lived on . |
| 7 | And then he saw , in the side of the smooth box , which had no visible cleft or split , but was whole like a green ice egg , a tiny keyhole . |
| 8 | The result was not always music of good quality , but many worshippers were attracted by it and folk music made much headway , particularly in those parishes which had no working church musicians to compose for their own communities and resources . |
| 9 | This gave him an endless shopping list of radical causes which had no apparent connection , but were bound together by the radical-chic lifestyle of their supporters . |
| 10 | Questions which had no real purpose in the first place are unlikely to be easy to analyse at the answer stage since the researcher is seeking for answers to his hypotheses which will show whether they are to be substantiated or not . |
| 11 | It was like riding in an aircraft which had no stable cruising speed . |
| 12 | Towards the end of the last century a Maharajah decided to help out an English village which had no regular water supply . |
| 13 | Moreover from an early stage the Greeks used sculptural decoration on their temples in a way which had no close parallel in earlier arts and , as it developed , encouraged a new approach to relief . |
| 14 | There were no representations from Metair ( who by then were making arrangement to remove to Biggin Hill ) , from the Ministry of Defence ( which had no alternative site for the country 's largest cadet gliding school ) or from anyone representing warbird interests . |
| 15 | We have achieved this by selling top quality products and services expertly and aggressively in the international marketplace by acquiring businesses which complement and support our four chosen areas of operation and by disposing of businesses which had no obvious place in those areas . |
| 16 | The 52-member CSCE , which had no military capability of its own , included all European countries , the former Soviet republics , and the USA and Canada . |
| 17 | Many senior politicians regarded the purity movement as beyond the pale ; an unwelcome intrusion of issues and personnel which had no rightful place in the discourse of parliamentary politics . |
| 18 | By March he was out again , and back at his office in Faber and Faber , although he was prudent enough to retire to bed early in the evening : with a complaint which had no organic cause , he could not be certain that he had been cured " . |
| 19 | He himself had convened the conference , which had no popular mandate , and " the only holder of sovereignty is the people " , he declared . |
| 20 | This promise , however , was expressed in no document ; it had the character of an informal arrangement which had no binding force on the future ; it was useless . |
| 21 | Sewell obtained more horseshoes in Holland , which had no veterinary school , and praised the royal stables at The Hague . |
| 22 | To some extent partnership was a new concept , asking industry to make an on-going commitment to an activity which had no previous examples which would recommend it . |
| 23 | The problem was to be with those institutions which had no previous connection with either the NCTA or the CNAA , and where the London degree had been a part-time one . |
| 24 | Early houses which remain completely untouched are few and far between , but a general rule emerged during my research for the book : the less important the house and the more remote its situation , the more old-fashioned it remained , like Hareston in Devon , which had no fashion-conscious owners wanting to show-off their taste and wealth to passers-by . |
| 25 | The other eccentric giant is Venice , and for an opposite reason , for it is the only great city of Italy which had no classical past . |
| 26 | A separatist rebel group , FLEC ( the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda — an area bordering on Congo and Zaïre which had no common border with Angola ) , on April 27 attacked a petroleum installation on the Congolese border , seizing four French and three Congolese workers , who they said were " violating Cabindan territory " . |
| 27 | Meanwhile in 1974 , revived British effort had moved to the clear waters of Loch Morar ( which had a similar tradition of sighting established by The Loch Morar Survey of 1970–72 ) . |
| 28 | We used to stock Playgirl , which had a similar content , but it did not sell . |
| 29 | The buyer might end up with a much more expensive house which had a better kitchen . |
| 30 | I well remember a young man who aroused special interest one weekend because he had been taken on at a place which had a certain reputation . |