Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He provided time rapidly for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House which concerned curtailing hon. Members ' hours . |
| 2 | The official receiver has been called into the firm , which ceased trading last June . |
| 3 | In many Third World countries national liberation movements which failed to create effective political parties were either taken over by military elites or else the governments which they formed were overthrown by military coups . |
| 4 | conducted a further study ( experiment 1 c ) that was almost identical to the first but which failed to yield any evidence for context-specificity . |
| 5 | It is chiefly the EC which failed to show any net increase of jobs in this period . |
| 6 | It may be noted that the experiments by Siegel ( 1970 ) , James ( 1971 ) , and Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) , which failed to find any loss of latent inhibition at longer intervals , all gave repeated presentations of the target stimulus in pre-exposure ; that is , they gave training likely to establish a context — target association . |
| 7 | Of the three patients that died , the cause of death was not mentioned in one case , a second patient died of oesophageal recurrence , the third succumbed to systemic lymphoma five years after irradiation of a single oesophageal manifestation ; local treatment had been completely successful , as indicated at necropsy , which failed to reveal any signs of malignancy in the oesophagus . |
| 8 | This was in turn succeeded by a Vietnamese-backed administration in 1979 , headed by the Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea , which failed to secure widespread international recognition and more than a decade later had not yet established effective control of the entire national territory . |
| 9 | Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries . |
| 10 | But a spokesman for Wrekin council , which admitted losing 600 protesters ' letters , said : ‘ There is nothing like it in Europe . |
| 11 | Here we can mention only a few events which led to major therapeutic developments , and pass by much else which gave the clues and spurs for progress . |
| 12 | Political unrest in Yugoslavia could have spelt bad news for Airtours , which planned to send 7,000 sunseekers there this summer . |
| 13 | Though the import of the announcement was obvious to Indians , it seems not to have been obvious to the British government , which avoided making any explicit statement on dominion status for India for another twelve years . |
| 14 | Despite greasy conditions which made handling difficult , Aussie full-back Gary Jack again proved an inspiration — sparking the first try after 20 minutes . |
| 15 | Although she was hungry she wanted to throw up , which made swallowing difficult . |
| 16 | Her only problem was a sore throat , which made speaking difficult . |
| 17 | There has been some concern that several teachers took tickets to sell but failed to let know whether or not they had sold them which made catering difficult . |
| 18 | He got de temp'ry permit which clears him to work for up to six month , but I hear you makin' him your general manager which got to last more than that , is n't it ? ’ |
| 19 | For example , Proposition 13 , which sought to curtail local government expenditure , can be related to antipathy towards property taxation . |
| 20 | In spite of a number of important publications in the early 1980s which sought to take Edwardian Conservatism seriously , notably the work of Geoffrey Searle , Alan Sykes , and Gregory Phillips , the Conservative party remained the Cinderella of Edwardian historiography , languishing in the shadows while its ugly sisters , the Liberal and Labour parties , hogged the limelight . |
| 21 | The definition eventually agreed for The Dartington Unit 's study of violence in residential care was ‘ the use of force in a social situation in a way that those in power define as illegitimate ’ , a perspective which sought to incorporate all the dimensions we have discussed . |
| 22 | Puritans also viewed breaches of traditional , Christian sexual morality in a serious light ; in 1650 , the Rump Parliament passed an Adultery Act , which sought to punish those convicted of fornication with three months ' imprisonment , and those found guilty of adultery with death . |
| 23 | A government immigration decree was issued in 1990 which sought to restrict foreign investors from entering the retail trade and other sectors of the economy . |
| 24 | This was in part due to the emergence of New Unionism which sought to organize unskilled workers . |
| 25 | Their advice defined political unions as those attempting to follow Community Party policies which sought to replace enterprise-specific agreements with inter-industry collective bargaining in order to widen the class struggle . |
| 26 | A sanitary code which sought to evade fundamental moral principles could never ultimately succeed . |
| 27 | In order to gain hegemonic support , the Conservative Government had to establish a moral position which sought to comfort those sections of the British electorate concerned about the changing political and moral climate . |
| 28 | In the years that followed labour unity was undermined by further US directives prohibiting national strikes and by revisions to Trade Union laws which sought to isolate those labelled as ‘ militants ’ . |
| 29 | The accord , which sought to end political violence , was agreed by 31 parties , including religious and business groups . |
| 30 | Act 1919 , which encouraged adjacent districts to co-ordinate their plans , and the Town and Country Planning Act 1932 , which sought to encourage local action to regulate activities in both the town and county ( Sheail 1981 ) . |