Example sentences of "which [vb past] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those countries which agreed to eliminate subsidies were awarded increased shares in the US import market . |
| 2 | Both Venables and Sugar attended a 90-minute board meeting at the club which agreed to dismiss Ashby , an alleged undischarged bankrupt . |
| 3 | Although she made little initial impact in England , her scheme gained influential support in Scotland where it was adopted by the Scottish Education Department which agreed to give School Boards ‘ choice of employment ’ powers under the Education ( Scotland ) Act 1908 . |
| 4 | The accommodationist states including Jordan , in order to satisfy domestic opinion — in Jordan 's case its East Bank Palestinian population — felt obliged to move into a common ‘ steadfastness ’ stance with the more radical Arab states , most of which agreed to pay money into a Jordanian-PLO Joint Fund for Steadfastness . |
| 5 | The foundation of the package was an accord with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions ( NZCTU ) which agreed to limit pay claims to 2 per cent , plus possible rises based on productivity . |
| 6 | This is well illustrated by Willesden High School in North London , which in recent times produced both Phillip DeFreitas and Chris Lewis , but which ceased to play cricket four years ago . |
| 7 | If the reason you left nursing in the first place was boredom or disillusionment , it may be that you had drifted into an environment which failed to take advantage of your best qualities . |
| 8 | In retrospect , it can be seen that NORP was a poorly planned venture which failed to take account of the poor infrastructure of Bangladesh and the vastness of the problem that it was meant to tackle . |
| 9 | Spartak remained unruffled in the face of a Liverpool onslaught which failed to transform possession into clear chances . |
| 10 | Liam Coyle who has scored three of Derry 's four competitive goals so far this season , booked City 's last eight berth with a close range strike in the seventh minute , but thereafter , it was yet another case of Derry flattering to deceive as they quickly ran out of ideas against a United side which failed to test City goalkeeper Dermot O'Neill at any time during the game . |
| 11 | ‘ It was Labour 's policy failure — above all on taxation — which failed to win voters . ’ |
| 12 | Then he set off the expense of having a debtor arrested in this way , which failed to produce payment of the debt against the sums he recovered . |
| 13 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 14 | This work , which sought to strip Christianity of its supernatural trappings and present Jesus as ‘ an incomparable man ’ , was perhaps the single most talked-about book of its age . |
| 15 | At the same time as reformers , investigators , and social administrators were beginning to appreciate its complexity , a new uniformed group appeared which sought to mobilize boys aged between 11 and 18 with a programme of outdoor activities and a strong sense of patriotism and moral purpose . |
| 16 | This followed a defeat in the US Senate of a resolution which sought to declare April 24 as a " day of remembrance " for Armenians killed in Turkey between 1915 and 1923 . |
| 17 | There Millett J having held that the part of a non-solicitation clause which gave protection to the plaintiff was valid but that the part which sought to give protection to an associated company of the plaintiff was invalid had then to decide whether the invalid part could be severed or whether the whole clause was invalid . |
| 18 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |
| 19 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |
| 20 | This has certainly been the view of groups which sought to draw attention to the problems of the long-term unemployed and older workers — notably the Unemployment Alliance in the 1980s and now the Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment ( CAADE ) . |
| 21 | On March 2 the US President George Bush vetoed a bill which sought to link China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trade status with " substantial progress " on human rights , weapons proliferation and trade imbalances . |
| 22 | On Sept. 29 Bush vetoed a bill which sought to link China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trade status with improvements in China 's human rights record and with other conditions . |
| 23 | Also opened , in 1905 , was the Sir James E. Jones Industrial Training School attached to the Royal Residential Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford which sought to teach school-leavers the bootmaking , tailoring , carpentry and bakery trades . |
| 24 | The Magistrates Association mounted a successful campaign against the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act which sought to replace courtroom hearings for young people with ‘ welfare dispositions ’ . |
| 25 | On March 1 Czechoslovakia , France , Germany , the Soviet Union , the UK , the USA and 34 other countries signed a Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection , which sought to forestall terrorist attacks by requiring signatory states to oblige manufacturers to add one of four chemical detection agents to such explosives . |
| 26 | In Balston Ltd v Headline Fillers Ltd [ 1987 ] FSR 330 it appears that an express confidential information clause which sought to protect secrets other than " business secrets " ( in the narrow sense that that phrase is used in Faccenda Chicken v Fowler ; see pp78-9 below ) was subjected by Scott J to the restraint of trade doctrine ( see also Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRL R 377 ) . |
| 27 | Chaos — the flipside of the universe , domain of the warp — spawned many vilenesses of the ilk of Thlyy'gzul'zhaell which sought to twist reality askew . |
| 28 | The referendum , only the third in Canada 's history , would enable the electorate to endorse or reject the constitutional package agreed in late August which sought to meet demands for greater autonomy for French-speaking Quebec and for the native Indians and Inuit populations , and offered increased representation within the federal legislature for the western provinces [ see pp. 39044-45 ] . |
| 29 | Thus , a Bill which sought to bring shipbuilding and repairing under public control but which did so , so far as repairing is concerned , by naming the particular firms affected , would be a ‘ hybrid ’ Bill . |
| 30 | Congress gave final approval on Oct. 8 ( after a 15-hour filibuster in the Senate ) to a tax and urban aid bill on Oct. 8 , which sought to raise $27,000 million to finance aid to urban areas . |