Example sentences of "which [vb past] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We followed them through the marsh , which smelled of dying plants . |
| 2 | He commanded the government troops in Eritrea , and chaired the court martial in 1989 which disposed of 12 of his fellow-generals for plotting an anti-Mengistu coup . |
| 3 | It was a shoddy disreputable town which stank of open sewers and rotting vegetables . |
| 4 | The average monthly output is seen to be about 196.5 tons , which consisted of 72 parcels of various weights , copper percentages , and therefore values , ranging from £2 : 5s. : 1¾d. to £14 : 10s. : 9¾d. a ton ; rates being determined by the fluctuating Cornish Standard . |
| 5 | There followed a pause of 1min before the tetanic stimulation which consisted of five trains , each of 20 shocks at 100Hz , repeated at 15s intervals . |
| 6 | A small crowd of the young , together with a party of celebrities were waiting for the band , which consisted of five yobs and an amplifier , to take up their position on the rostrum . |
| 7 | Of course it would be possible to have a religion which was largely abstract , which consisted of philosophical formulations and moral maxims . |
| 8 | One gang , which consisted of four coachmakers and two labourers , prepared and placed all timber , panels and other materials on the spot where it was required , and no man who was engaged on actual repairs was required to leave the job to look up any material . |
| 9 | At Loreto , we spent three days exploring the network of muddy paths through the forest around the village , crossing small streams on logs and one larger river on a suspension bridge which consisted of four rusting steel cables and a few loose planks . |
| 10 | 3rd Armoured Field Ambulance were tasked to provide medical support to the British military contingent , Which consisted of 1,500 servicemen and servicewomen from the Army and the Royal Air Force . |
| 11 | He owned Ranlodden Estate , which consisted of all thirty-nine square miles of the moor . |
| 12 | Low clouds and squalls of driving rain concealed all but the local terrain , which consisted of rocky crags and gulleys . |
| 13 | To obtain additional internal volume and a satisfactory relationship between new floor levels and existing or modified window openings , the original ground floor , which consisted of two panels of suspended timber construction under the areas formerly accommodating pews , separated and flanked by strips of tiled floor on a solid base where the gangways ran , was removed to give a further 400mm ( 16in ) of height . |
| 14 | I was accepted as part of the family , which consisted of two daughters and a grandfather , ; the husband had died many years before . |
| 15 | Martha set confidently to work in Grace 's galley , which consisted of two gas rings in the bows connected to a Calor cylinder , and a brass sink . |
| 16 | South of the temple an attractive odeon , or concert-hall , was brought to light along the northern edge ofthe vast agora complex , which consisted of two long porticoes that have also been partly excavated and restored . |
| 17 | I was afflicted with diarrhoea — and directed to the communal latrine , which consisted of eight holes in the ground surrounded by a large enclosure of bamboo walls . |
| 18 | The cere-cloth , which consisted of nine , and in some places of ten distinct layers , was originally dipped in wax . |
| 19 | This would then fulfil the aim of revitalising the association , which consisted of 30 women four years ago . |
| 20 | A special aftercare service was set up — staffed by psychiatrists and social workers — which consisted of weekly outpatient clinics , domiciliary visiting where necessary , and an emergency call service . |
| 21 | Sparsely furnished in keeping with the austere , scholarly traditions of the Annamese mandarinate , it was dominated by the family 's ancestral altar , which consisted of three tables of different heights lacquered in red and gold . |
| 22 | They left , taking several members of staff with them , and Simon and Andy retained the ‘ main rump ’ of the firm which consisted of 19 staff . |
| 23 | Increasingly familiar became the tone of letters home like the following : ‘ Of my section , which consisted of 19 men , only 3 are left … |
| 24 | He had previously managed a South Island high-country sheep station which consisted of thousands of acres , therefore he looked upon this three-thousand acre block as a mere pocket-handkerchief . |
| 25 | We went first to the short-termers ' section , which consisted of several barracks in a surprisingly spacious compound . |
| 26 | The theme was continued in the furnishings , which consisted of thick carpeting and a number of low sofas covered in sand-coloured linen , offset with candy-striped cushions placed here and there . |
| 27 | In reaction , the late 1960s saw the beginnings of a new type of local political analysis which consisted of intensive case studies of particular authorities . |
| 28 | The individual tissue type plasminogen activator activity and damaged area was determined 30 minutes after the administration of endothelin-1 in the various concentrations ( 50 , 100 , 250 , and 500 pmol/kg ) , each of which consisted of seven experiments . |
| 29 | A similar argument was presented in the 1963 Robbins Report on higher education , although it was couched in terms which spoke of untap-ped pools of ability ( women and the working class ) who could be drawn into higher education if more places were available . |
| 30 | Agitation may have been couched in a vocabulary which spoke of national morality , but it was clear who were being singled out as the recipients of purity action . |