Example sentences of "which [pron] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night during the making of the first film in November 1972 , she dusted down a piece of furniture in that crowded kitchen of hers ( which everyone had supposed to be a writing desk ) lifted the lid and revealed … a miniature organ . |
| 2 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
| 3 | What I wanted ideally was a situation in which I had two groups of birds , each trained on and showing the disgust response to the bitter bead , but one group then remembering and the other forgetting the association . |
| 4 | In each case the accuracy rate concerning events of which I had first-hand knowledge was about 50% ; half the information correct , half wrong . |
| 5 | Given that the conductor is Rudolf Barshai , this was a disc of which I had high expectations , and the musicians of the Vancouver SO play the score with an admirable combination of restraint and accuracy which provides , in the end , a rather more affecting experience than some of the more histrionic versions one could name . |
| 6 | In 1940 I had prepared an essay on Ivy 's novels , which I had some prospect of placing in Horizon . |
| 7 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
| 8 | Golden Girl had cleared the rocks on which she had first grounded , the wind slithering the lightened catamaran broadside across the sparse grasses sprouting from the leached sandy soil behind the ancient coastline . |
| 9 | Swathes of jasmine , loose from a prolifically flowering specimen on the edge of the house , occasionally fell over their railing , with their sweet scent , before Mrs Irving , clothed in her gardening gear of wellingtons and apron over the seated and threadbare tweed suit in which she had first enticed them in , came and bound these back . |
| 10 | The play in which she had first appeared was still running ; its clumsy comedy appealed to the audiences who came here . |
| 11 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 12 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 13 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |
| 14 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 15 | Leith was reversing her car when she spotted the Jaguar which she had first seen — grief , was it only yesterday morning ? |
| 16 | There was always schoolteaching , of course , but that would entail the tiresome business of acquiring a Postgraduate Certificate of Education , or else working in the independent sector , to which she had ideological objections . |
| 17 | Her breath and his rose into the air in clouds and there was that peaty smell which she had last smelt at the florist 's . |
| 18 | She started to look up , past shoes to a pair of trousers the material of which she had last seen in Prague too ! |
| 19 | Like most expatriate wives Molly Fletcher had a collection of sound and video cassettes which she had pre-recorded at home . |
| 20 | Her former Special Adviser , Patrick Cosgrave , recounts how there were only two areas for which she had any respect : |
| 21 | The medal was handed to her on a velvet cushion and she bent down and hung it on a little hook with which we had each been provided on arrival . |
| 22 | The inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia had to contend with variations of climate , scorching winds , torrential rains , and devastating floods over which they had little control . |
| 23 | Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge . |
| 24 | From this change , it is said , followed another change , from prescribing as the cure more self-help and hard work among the poor , to recognition of the need for government intervention to support the poor in an economic situation over which they had little control ; from ‘ individualism ’ to ‘ collectivism ’ as it is often put . |
| 25 | In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing . |
| 26 | Many teachers feel aggrieved at having ‘ taken the rap ’ for the introduction and implementation of theories and methods over which they had little control . |
| 27 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 28 | Their agreement was bought with concessions to certain aspects of sovereignty about which they had strong feelings . |
| 29 | Alongside the new universities themselves , starting their degree courses from scratch and employing large numbers of sometimes rather dubiously qualified new lecturers , there was a parallel development in the polytechnics , many of them offering degree courses for the first time , and devising courses in subjects such as literature , languages , and philosophy that had nothing whatever to do with the technology-based courses for which they had first been invented . |
| 30 | Pushing the door open , she entered a dim chamber similar to the one in which they had first met Dubois . |