Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark rose from his chair fully aware that politicians believed themselves to be the best informed people in the world , which made them a very sceptical audience for any speaker . |
| 2 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 3 | In Germany , in July 1932 , the Nazi party won 230 seats in the Reichstag , which made them the majority party , although Adolph Hitler was not able to become the Chancellor until January 1933 . |
| 4 | McCoist could not train at McDiarmid Park yesterday , which made him no different from half of Roxburgh 's squad , but is healing at an encouraging rate . |
| 5 | Hayling is a man of considerable and obvious intelligence , with dishy looks and great charm which made him a favourite with some of the women comrades . |
| 6 | Yet Politics among Nations is the book which made him a major figure in the discipline and its message is as we have described it . |
| 7 | The distinctive thing about him which made him a legend in his lifetime and made his biography one of the Methodist best sellers of the century , was an immediate apprehension of the divine glory which issued naturally in leaping , dancing , and cheerful controversy with the world . |
| 8 | It was another of those things , like the green car , which made him a less than perfect Moslem . |
| 9 | He was a tyrant , a bully , and he 'd stolen her things — which made him a thief into the bargain ! |
| 10 | The devotion to duty which made him a surprisingly successful stalwart at Ibrox for so long is still evident in Miller 's conscientious work with his young players . |
| 11 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 12 | Alexander 's method was brought about by his unique way of thinking which made him the genius that he was . |
| 13 | His loneliness as a child had been reinforced by his years of solitary endeavour in the north-west frontier in India and Kenya , which made him the world 's leading authority on the diseases of the camel . |
| 14 | It was his success in this role which made him an obvious choice for prime minister , an essentially ‘ managerial ’ post . |
| 15 | He showed every sign of inheriting and perhaps exceeding , his father 's acute intelligence , which made him an exhaustingly curious and argumentative child . |
| 16 | He might have shed his Lindbergh-like naivete and enthusiasm for simple solutions which made him an easy prey to authoritarianism and the meretricious appeal of Nazis and fascists . |
| 17 | Marley had a revolutionary 's zeal and a charismatic presence which made him an intensely romantic figure not only to the young blacks whose predicament he articulated , but also to the white rock audience . |
| 18 | He therefore fingerspelled and signed from childhood , which made him an exceptionally able interpreter . |
| 19 | From 1951 to 1953 he was president of the Royal Meteorological Society , which made him an honorary fellow in 1976 . |
| 20 | He had also been identified as one of those who had guarded the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack in June of that year , which made him an accomplice in the murder of US Navy diver , Robert Stetham . |
| 21 | It was all of these factors and experiences which made him an outstanding teacher and a distinguished consultant ( perhaps the only person to be Chairman of the local association of the ICE and IStructE in successive years ) . |
| 22 | His personal score stood at seven which made him an ace and then came that morning of ferocious winds and driving snow when he 'd come in at four hundred feet , flying blind , lost his engine at the last moment and crash-landed . |
| 23 | Possibly even more so than being the all singing , all dancing performer which made her a millionairess . |
| 24 | Which made her the last person to know how to handle this evening 's adventure . |
| 25 | Her great kindness and sense of humour will be long remembered , as will the enthusiasm and energy which made her an outstanding Teacher and Society Member . |
| 26 | Which made me the family oddity . ’ |
| 27 | A leader of the US Communist Party in New York from the late 1940s , he was imprisoned in 1953 for two years for violating the Smith Act , which made it a crime to advocate the violent overthrow of the Government . |
| 28 | For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon . |
| 29 | As a result of these processes , madeira wine gained qualities which made it a rival of port and sherry . |
| 30 | Only a year earlier , Wilson himself had denounced the legislation which made it a member . |