Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Passenger saloons built by the GNR were attached to these power units to form articulated railcars , a speciality of Walkers , which greatly reduced noise and vibration levels for passengers . |
| 32 | Adolphe Adam , composer of the music for Giselle , initiated this idea which greatly influenced Wagner and later composers . |
| 33 | There would have been no defence ( just as in Reg. v. Lawrence ) if the charge had been laid under section 15(1) and , as in Reg. v. Lawrence and the present case , it was the Crown 's resort to section 1(1) which alone gave rise to a legal problem . |
| 34 | The Registry , through liaison with all such representatives , records these details together with notes on which departmentally owned rooms ( e.g. laboratories ) have already been booked and which poolable ( centrally owned ) rooms would be preferred . |
| 35 | To add perspective , we can visualize a Home Secretary taking office , conscious of the weight of tradition , and the reservoir of inherited expertise from which departmentally generated policies are drawn . |
| 36 | Heaven 17 appropriated the jargon and paraphernalia of industry , presented themselves as a well-heeled corporation , offering ‘ Music Of Quality and Distinction ’ which suavely played pop at its own game . |
| 37 | Dr Wesnes said it was a well tested drug which only caused Alzheimer type symptoms when injected rather than being taken orally as a travel sickness remedy … |
| 38 | Only other aircraft in the sale , was Slingsby Grasshopper glider XK824 , which only reached £650 in the bidding and was unsold . |
| 39 | Until the last century ships which only carried passengers were unknown . |
| 40 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 41 | Unlike previous Zetor gearboxes , which only had synchromesh on higher gears , the new tractor is all synchro . |
| 42 | Killion took pity on Callaghan and tried to discuss Freud , which only confused Callaghan the more . |
| 43 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 44 | Which only set Nigel off more , and it was some time before he could attempt an explanation . |
| 45 | You can not imagine him putting up with the committee which apparently advised Elizabeth II in 1960 to buy an all too committee-like selection of modern artists — Nolan , Lowry , Hitchens , Davie — chosen , one suspects , so that none of the great men felt left out . |
| 46 | Virtually nothing is known of Freeman 's early years ; he shrouded his early life in great mystery and even the details of his secondary schooling — which apparently took place at a boarding-school in north London — remained unknown to his closest relatives . |
| 47 | The USC executive committee , which apparently supported Farah Aydid , had meanwhile accused Italy of interfering in Somalia 's domestic affairs and had demanded that Rome recall its ambassador , Mario Sica . |
| 48 | They described themselves as rusyny , a term which merely indicated descent from the inhabitants of the medieval principality of Rus ' . |
| 49 | The Pelican Guide proposes that accounts of the social context of literature are included in the volumes to suggest the factors which merely encouraged forms of literary production . |
| 50 | It was the latter which so struck Henry Detterding , the Director General of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company , who resolved to build himself a ‘ Butterfly ’ house and commissioned Maufe . |
| 51 | Although there was little trace of the blood mysticism or metaphysical argument which so characterized Houston Stewart Chamberlain 's and volkish ideas in general in Germany , some elements derived from romanticism . |
| 52 | There followed a scene which so distressed Mrs. Aboody that she was reduced to tears . |
| 53 | Much of this philanthropy was fuelled by religious conviction , especially by the realization of evangelical Anglicans and Nonconformists that to save souls it was necessary first to remove the poverty which so consumed lives that the poor had no time for God . |
| 54 | Seminar on Youth ( and its successors ) is a novel which in many ways goes against the grain of recent writing in Italy : quite at odds with the studied poise of Tabucchi , the selective precision of Narratori , or the deceptively balanced complexities of Calvino , Busi 's language is rich , extravagant and , to use the adjective which so irritated Gadda , ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 55 | There was practically none of the systematic planning and oversight which so characterised Bath and many other spas : that could only come from the implementation of a single plan by a great landowner and architect , and Brighton had a few of these . |
| 56 | Having provided the Franks with a Trojan origin , he stated that after the death of Francio they were ruled by duces , thus providing an explanation for the lack of a royal family , which so troubled Gregory , and creating space for a new dynasty of long-haired kings . |
| 57 | Summer 1963 saw England still a year away from its pop culture explosion which so changed fashions , music , ideas and outlooks for years to come . |
| 58 | ’ A little later Kipling presents the description of a breaking wave as a ‘ banjo string drawn tight ’ which so impressed Eliot . |
| 59 | Hocazade confounded Molla Zeyrek , a feat which so impressed Mehmed II that he made Hocazade his Hoca . |
| 60 | The courtyard design of Linlithgow was completed under his inspiration ; it was this architectural gem of a palace which so impressed Mary of Guise , whose admiration was by no means merely wifely tact . |