Example sentences of "which [vb past] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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1 | It was the argicultural parishes which produced the smallest percentages . |
2 | And , without waiting for a reply to his question about whether she gave Morton tacit approval for the book which became the biggest seller in the history of royal publishing , Philip went on to accuse his daughter-in-law of putting the dignity of the Crown at risk . |
3 | In some cases customers would demand more Champagne than woollens which led the sharpest businessmen to quickly diversify into this lucrative new commerce . |
4 | It also owned 17 ships , and shared ownership of four more with the L & YR , which owned the largest fleet . |
5 | A serious blow , of course , was also dealt to the reputation of the Labour Party , which controlled many of the councils with the greatest needs and which made the heaviest demands on the public purse , and whose members were least apologetic about doing so . |
6 | He maintained that an interest in chemistry was inborn in Germans , who also possessed a ‘ cold-blooded spirit of research , slow but accurate reflection and unremitting patience ’ , which made the best chemists . |
7 | This became both the cornerstone of future government policy and the unquestioned assumption of subsequent government reports , including the Barlow Report in 1940 which made the strongest and most comprehensive case for regional development . |
8 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
9 | Mount Stromboli was the firework which got the biggest applause from the Astra box . |
10 | Kenneth Leventhal , which reported the highest growth rate in the top 10 , at 9.7% , specialises in real estate . |
11 | Those parts of the laws of war which retained the greatest importance and practical relevance were the parts relating to the protection of individuals in the adversary 's hands : prisoners of war , civilians in occupied territory , and so on . |
12 | It was the thermal load — cooking , water heating and electric fires — which created the greatest challenge for the industry 's domestic sales strategy . |
13 | The discipline within anthropology which maintained the closest relation to material culture studies was archaeology , which has always been highly dependent upon such studies , since its task of resurrecting ancient societies is based in large measure on the interpretation of the material remains excavated from those societies . |
14 | The Catholic and especially Buddhist revivals were partially reactions to earlier activities of Protestant missionaries , who as part of their strategy to gain converts had produced polemical literature and established schools , including those which provided the best available English-language instruction . |
15 | Instead an agreement on Austria was concluded between the Great Powers in 1955 which provided the best European example of regulated neutrality , of a modern version of neutralisation . |
16 | The underlying motivation behind this selection was that of all the sentences this was the one which provided the neatest summary of the entire story . |
17 | To its ideologies it was a superior form which embodied the best of both socialism and capitalism . |
18 | Because there were relatively few situations which received the highest risk ratings it is not possible to clearly assess whether this increase continues for all ratings , there is some evidence that it may not since once one unusual subject 's data was removed the three situations receiving the highest subjective risk ratings were in fact never recalled . |
19 | The results for the junction which received the highest risk ratings , junction 9 , will be considered to illustrate this , see Table 4.4 . |
20 | The statement which received the strongest approval was one that claimed that the monarchy benefited tourism . |
21 | It was the new technique of analysis , typology , which caused the greatest shift of emphasis , in the early years of the twentieth century . |
22 | Nevertheless , it was radio which played the greatest role in the development of music . |
23 | I ran into the house and upstairs into Mrs Goreng 's dressing-room , which commanded the best view . |
24 | They sailed round the shoreline of the harbour until they came to a small bay with a large waterfall over which cascaded the purest water . |
25 | Using highly mobile soldiers to avoid battle , Bruce used the physical geography of Scotland to make conditions as difficult as he could for the English who , risking starvation and ambush , had to be very careful not to overstretch themselves and to keep open their lines of communication as best they could through the control of castles , in particular the vital one at Stirling , which dominated the lowest point at which the river Forth could be crossed by bridge . |
26 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
27 | It was precisely for this purpose that the United States Government obstructed the carrying out of the Moscow Agreement on Korea , which envisaged the speediest creation of an independent Korean democratic State . |
28 | Even the Daily Mail , which deployed the clearest use of ‘ race ’ and ‘ outside agitator ’ arguments , ran a major story on Broadwater Farm under the headline : ‘ Burnt-out hulks litter this concrete jungle … despair hangs heavy ’ ( 8 October 1985 ) . |
29 | 3 They question the extent to which the system provides for representative governments noting not just the underrepresentation of third parties , but the fact that , in the elections of 1929 , 1951 , and February 1974 , the party which returned the largest number of MPs actually had a smaller share of the vote than the runner-up party in the Commons so that the electoral " winner " was , in fact , the governmental " loser " . |
30 | And after the elections , which returned the slimmest of Gaullist majorities , he tried to broaden his constituency by reviving the reformist theme of worker participation . |