Example sentences of "which it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to his consecration , the only controversial question which it raised concerned his relationship with the archbishop of York who consecrated him , and this will be discussed below in the context of the Primacy . |
| 2 | In analysing the ideology of the underground , recent work has underlined the extent to which it reflected social change and popular pressure within Russia . |
| 3 | Two recent attempts to invoke the EEC competition rules before the English courts were : Shearson Lehman 's attempt to prevent the London Metal Exchange fixing a closing-out price for tin contracts in existence as the time of the collapse of the tin market ; and Macarthy PLC 's attempt to obtain an injunction restraining a share allocation and discount scheme introduced by a pharmaceutical wholesaler , which it alleged distorted competition . |
| 4 | Electricity continued to replace steam-powered mechanical drives , and the subdivision of power which it made possible remained a fundamentally attractive characteristic . |
| 5 | This head felt that the re-expression and development of ideas which IT made possible allowed every pupil the chance to have second thoughts . |
| 6 | The really intriguing historical problems , which await further investigation , concern the manner in which policy-makers reacted to this inaccurate information in determining policy and the way in which it affected external relations , especially with international financial institutions , in particular the International Monetary Fund . |
| 7 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 8 | Its surface area would dissipate heat continually at the same rate at which it exceeded ambient temperature , and it would need 8100 kilocalories of solar radiation in addition to its metabolic increment . |
| 9 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 10 | After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking . |
| 11 | Yet in August and September 1858 , when on holiday in Germany , Rostovtsev wrote the tsar four letters in which it became apparent that he had changed his ground . |
| 12 | Euripides ' importance for New Comic poets like Menander ( 342–293 ) and Philemon ( 368–267 ) lay , above all , in his introduction of mundane naturalism , through which it became possible , for the first time , to stage the mediocrity of ordinary life : " Euripides brought the spectator on stage . " |
| 13 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 14 | There was an awkward pause during which it became clear that this hint was going to be ignored like all previous ones and then the Guider realised that the pause was going to continue . |
| 15 | ‘ In the 19th century , a series of cases forced upon the Commons and courts a comprehensive review of the issues which divided them , from which it became clear that some of the earlier claims to jurisdiction made in the name of privilege by the House of Commons were untenable in a court of law : that the law of Parliament was part of the general law , that its principles were not beyond the judicial knowledge of the judges , and that it was the duty of the common law to define its limits could no longer be disputed . |
| 16 | Braintree says the southern link road was included in the package simply to push the overall cost up to a level at which it became eligible for government funding . |
| 17 | Braintree says the southern link road was included in the package simply to push the overall cost up to a level at which it became eligible for government funding . |
| 18 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) The fraud or dishonesty of the vendor In addition to fraud and dishonesty insurers will specifically exclude liability for the wilful failure by the vendor to disclose matters of which it had actual knowledge . |
| 20 | Characteristically it becomes difficult , but also necessary , in just this market phase , to distinguish this form of production from others with which it had analogous economic relations . |
| 21 | US business appears to have been locked into a pattern of low accumulation from which it proved difficult to escape even when the rising tide of competition began , in the sixties , to have a noticeable effect in the domestic US market . |
| 22 | The affair highlighted the fragility of Endara 's government and the extent to which it remained dependent on the presence of nearly 10,000 US troops . |
| 23 | Far below , in the street opposite the 550 building , stood the tall statue of the Garment Worker , strangely distorted from this angle , and around the plinth on which it stood ant-like figures of vagrants and layabouts sat , oblivious to the cold . |
| 24 | Much of the rest of his life was dedicated to opposing British financial policy and the monetary straitjacket in which it placed British industry . |
| 25 | This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage . |
| 26 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 27 | The Court could also ban any political parties which it considered anti-democratic , a move partly designed to prevent a return of the Nazi party , though the Court also banned the Communist party in 1956 . |
| 28 | Interestingly , Egypt described the Memorandum as changing the United States ' role from one of ‘ partner ’ ( but not party to the Peace Treaty ) to one of ‘ arbiter ’ which it considered inappropriate . |
| 29 | Britain had its supporters outside the Six , notably the Nordic states with which it held regular meetings within Uniscan to discuss and coordinate views on European developments and their possible implications . |
| 30 | The EC on Oct. 22 called on Milosevic to use his influence to end ethnic cleansing in Bosnia , for which it held Bosnian Serbs chiefly responsible , and warned that military measures could be taken if the UN flight ban over Bosnia was breached . |