Example sentences of "which [vb past] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pavement was made in the famous Corinium workshop at Cirencester , which produced many mosaics for other Roman villas in the Cotswolds . |
| 2 | It was fear of the Soviet military threat which led many US administrations to work for the political unification of Europe — a process in many ways inimical to their own interests — and to urge the United Kingdom to play her part . |
| 3 | The pressures which led many noblemen to sell their land were largely beyond the control of the State . |
| 4 | But towards the end of the eighteenth century the courts developed what Jay Cohen calls ‘ a more expansive definition ’ of the term , which made many non-traders eligible for discharge in bankruptcy . |
| 5 | In the non-European world it was the requirement to provide separate facilities for a complex hierarchy of class and race which made many railway stations larger affairs than they need otherwise have been . |
| 6 | Sixth , the leadership demonstrated abysmal judgment , evinced by the distasteful triumphalism in Sheffield , which made many supporters cringe , and waverers recoil . |
| 7 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 8 | Paneth was a keen traveller , an interest which provided many opportunities for photography . |
| 9 | Paneth was a keen traveller , an interest which provided many opportunities for photography . |
| 10 | Sir Michael Edwardes was appointed to the task of rescuing the company in 1977 and in the next five years attempted to reduce excessive centralisation in the company and to improve efficiency , which involved many plant closures and redundancies . |
| 11 | The losses have now been eliminated in a major reorganisation which involved many redundancies . |
| 12 | It gave them a new sense of opening opportunity , a new reason for raising standards and expectations , new cause to doubt the wisdom of a system which excluded many children from the chance of a full academic education from the age of eleven , and a new hope . |
| 13 | In an infamous storm on 7th January , 1839 , which sank many boats in the Firth , Clytus was blown away from her moorings in Troon harbour and went aground on Barassie beach . |
| 14 | The generally-accepted explanation for welfare payment levels in the South is that they are , and have been , low because of : the relative poverty of the southern States , which would call for a high fiscal effort if payments equivalent to those made further north were to be offered to the larger number of poor there ; the electoral safety of the Democratic party with regard to the southern State legislatures and governorships , for over a century — sustained by discriminatory practices which prevented many blacks becoming registered voters despite their legal achievement of civil rights ; and the widespread belief among southern whites in the racial inferiority of blacks — who are the main recipients of welfare benefits coupled with the perceived work-disincentive effects of substantial payments and the encouragement to have even larger , and thus more dependent , families than they are believed to provide . |
| 15 | It recommended that the pace of girls ' education be slowed , that physical education reflect the need of girls for ‘ smoothness and expressiveness ’ and of boys for ‘ strength and energy ’ , and that allowance be made for the effect of menstruation , which condemned many girls ‘ to a recurring and temporary diminution of general mental efficiency ’ . |
| 16 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 17 | The Spaniard was upset and stated that he would never play in America again , a statement which delighted many Americans . |
| 18 | Because arbitration called for personal authority , tact , and understanding , some princes — Hugh of Burgundy , Robert II of Flanders — achieved a high reputation which attracted many disputes to their court . |
| 19 | Perhaps his greatest vulnerability was one shared with the great mass of mankind : a vanity which affected many aspects of his life , and which as he grew older increased his claims for credit for almost every activity within human reach . |
| 20 | That 's not to suggest there are any major defects with the shoe , merely that some of the vestiges of the past , which turned many runners off the brand , do still remain . |
| 21 | Professor Keith Clayton of the University of East Anglia has warned that the odds of a disastrous storm surge , similar to that of 1953 which claimed many lives , have now narrowed from 1 in 100 to 1 in 25 . |
| 22 | To understand why Jews should be so possessive about a collective tragedy which touched many others , it is necessary to remember that this was mass murder specifically designed for Jews in which others were caught . |
| 23 | In a move which surprised many commentators Adml. |
| 24 | In a decision which surprised many commentators , none of the sons and daughters of top party leaders ( the so-called " princelings " ) were elevated to the central committee . |
| 25 | Also at Duxford is the Old Flying Machine Company 's Hunter F. Mk. 6A G-BUEZ , which spent many years at the Empire Test Pilots School at Farnborough and Boscombe Down as XF375 before being retired as an instructional airframe at Cranwell in 1982 . |
| 26 | The story of plant introduction which began many centuries ago continues unabated and British gardens have been and continue to be major beneficiaries . |
| 27 | Oddly enough , I would have thought it was the decision of the Financial Times to support Labour which swung many people behind the Conservatives at the last moment . |
| 28 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 29 | The Italianate villa in Washington , DC , which developed many Lincoln associations , was neat , warm , and human in scale , not at all the station of a great capital . |
| 30 | On 5–7 May , as Tito 's forces neared the Slovene capital Ljubljana , the mass exodus referred to earlier , which included many civilians , took place over the nearby Austria border to the north . |