Example sentences of "which had [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , all seized on an element of structural and formal strength in his work , which they saw as a corrective to the formlessness which had characterized so much French painting since the Impressionists had insisted on the validity of an instantaneous form of vision , that had so often dissolved the solidity of the material world into a haze of atmospheric colour and light . |
| 2 | By working from this new standpoint , Schleiermacher aimed to bypass the antitheses which had emerged so sharply in earlier generations between reason and revelation , natural religion and received authority , the natural and the supernatural , and to offer a fresh synthesis in which both the authentic and distinctive character of religion and the special nature of the Christian faith would be preserved . |
| 3 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 4 | The little mouse which had run so fast and so far would now sit still in its corner . |
| 5 | Ironically the church , which had gained so much from the older cast of mind , was prominent in propagating the newer outlook . |
| 6 | The Irish Government was resolutely determined to rid itself of the British system which had done so much harm to the economy . |
| 7 | Moreover , the most impressive and unusual feature of Scottish bonding , the loyalty to a single lord which had done so much to make lordship so stabilizing a factor , was inevitably diminished . |
| 8 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 9 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
| 10 | No station was allowed to take a prize in the same class for more than two successive years , but if a station which had done so was deemed worthy of being placed in the same class in a third year , it received a special first-class certificate but no money . |
| 11 | In this case we find a culture which has not evolved beyond the initial , hunter-gatherer stage and which , furthermore , does not appear to have been contaminated by contact with cultures which had done so — at least , until the coming of white men . |
| 12 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 13 | Resolution 242 did not foresee the possibility of the Palestinian people acquiring their own voice , distinct from those of Jordan and Egypt which had governed so many of them . |
| 14 | And then the questions which had arisen so few days ago arose unbidden , and this time , instead of forcing them away , he forced himself to face them — and the principal question of course was , just who was his father ? |
| 15 | Thus Poland , which had played so important a role in the debates on the national question , slipped into independence by courtesy of German arms without playing any role in a revolution in Germany or in Russia . |
| 16 | Perhaps he was contemplating his own life with Vivien here just as , when he connected McKnight Kauffer 's death with a sense of " the void " , he was once again returning to his own feeling of emptiness which had played so large a part in his religious conversion . |
| 17 | From then on the fortunes of the Palace went into decline , these old walls which had seen so much of England 's history unfold , and from within which decisions were made which played a part in this history , were now in their last chapter . |
| 18 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 19 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 20 | Exports to North America increased eight-fold between 1770 and 1773 and moralists on the eastern seaboard were beginning to echo the condemnation of a tea-drinking , fashion-wearing , luxury-wallowing populace which had become so strident in England . |
| 21 | Now she is able to eat again , although naturally only very little and often but already she is feeling stronger and is doing exercises to build up the muscles which had become so weak . |
| 22 | It meant the disappearance from the line of battle of every European fleet of the converted merchantmen which had remained so important in wars at sea until the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 23 | Looms and spinning wheels were silent with the approach of the Industrial Revolution and the work which had employed so many in the Furness area came to an end . |
| 24 | In autumn 1941 the German advance into Russia , which had begun so spectacularly , ground to halt on the approach to Moscow , and a disastrous retreat in the icy wastes of the Russian winter could only be staved off with difficulty and at high human cost , leaving an ill-equipped army to endure the arctic conditions . |
| 25 | The early season jungle drums which had sounded so ominous for manager Alan Fraser after two dodgy defeats , now beat out a different message . |
| 26 | The early season jungle drums which had sounded so ominous for manager Alan Fraser after two dodgy defeats , now beat out a different message . |
| 27 | Otherwise , he argued , to devalue would be to sanction the inflationary wage-increases which had vitiated so much of Britain 's post-war economic history . |
| 28 | The Christ-corpse carried in a glass coffin down Plateros , over the design of doves and flowers and cross made out of petals which had engaged so many all day , and borne round the Plaza de Armas , was one whose wounds gaped , who was chalky-white with blood-loss . |
| 29 | As though mirroring her mood , the day which had started so well turned to rain mid-morning . |
| 30 | Nor did it help that the morning , which had started so bright , began to cloud over . |