Example sentences of "which [vb past] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the urban congestion , there were two new factors , more or less coinciding in impact , which operated to degrade the traditional sanctity of the grave and hit the poorest people hardest . |
| 2 | Right , moving on to item four which agreed to consider a term following plan applications . |
| 3 | In spite of its success — the book quickly sold out its first edition of 60,000 — Laura dreaded the thought of another book which failed to represent the company as she saw it . |
| 4 | There were two appeals against the verdict , which failed to reverse the decision and in the early winter of 1961 a court receiver auctioned the assets of Highlander . |
| 5 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 6 | Football : Advertisement for small beer : Joe Lovejoy reports on a game which failed to quench the purists ' thirsts |
| 7 | Sarajevo Child Lifeline is connected with Brit-Pol , an organisation which made the news last year , when they organised a trip for a group of volunteers from Berkley in Gloucestershire , which failed to collect a coach load of orphans they had planned to bring back from Bosnia . |
| 8 | The Barcelona rising , which failed to enlist the vital support of the CNT , was quickly suppressed , but that in Asturias lasted a fortnight until finally crushed , with considerable blood-shed , by Spanish and Moorish troops commanded by General Francisco Franco . |
| 9 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 10 | THE DEATH OF THE Lotus Elan was the result of poor sales which failed to recoup the massive investment made in the car , according to former GM Europe boss Bob Eaton . |
| 11 | Any party which failed to win a seat in a general election would be automatically dissolved . |
| 12 | The elections were contested by 15 parties , four of which failed to win a single seat ( Kaset Seri , Ruam Palang Mai , United Democratic Party and Thong Tin Kao Na ( Rural Progressive ) ) . |
| 13 | However other studies with a bent kinetoplast DNA fragment revealed some sites which were efficiently cleaved , yet which failed to produce a DNase I footprint [ 31 ] . |
| 14 | Mr Palumbo also suggested that grant money might be taken away from companies which failed to achieve a sufficiently high standard . |
| 15 | By deepening the partisan rift , the Thomas affair also cast its shadow over the Senate 's attempt to override the President , which failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority by two votes on Oct. 16 . |
| 16 | Our results may explain the puzzling results from at least two previous trials , which failed to find an impact on morbidity even in the presence of a large effect on mortality . |
| 17 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 18 | In the Palaeozoic rocks there were other stalked filter-feeding echinoderms , which failed to survive the crisis at the end of the Permian , weathered by the crinoids . |
| 19 | It was assumed that spoken forms which failed to observe the rules of morphology and syntax considered appropriate to written forms were ‘ incorrect ’ and ‘ ungrammatical ’ . |
| 20 | Malerba was on last month 's Atlantis shuttle flight which failed to launch a satellite to produce electricity . |
| 21 | Lance Owen of Kingston took care of the service ( £174.25 ) and secured the exhaust , but its only attempt to cure the creak was to adjust the power steering belt , which failed to solve the problem . |
| 22 | The contract is a kick in the teeth for British workers at Westinghouse Signal , which expected to clinch the £100 million deal . |
| 23 | Spokeswoman Captain Marcella Adams said the base , which planned to hold the event on May 29 and 30 , would normally have heard by now . |
| 24 | The main buyers were those plants which planned to delay the introduction of desulphurizing " scrubber " equipment . |
| 25 | The problem facing the Indian Board , which met to discuss the crisis earlier this week , is who to name as a replacement . |
| 26 | There were active liberal or socialist-influenced tenants ' and farmers ' movements in the interwar period which sought to improve the farmers ' lot . |
| 27 | A good deal of discussion focussed , in the early meetings , on whether and how to reduce the ‘ all-pervading ’ influence of the subject boards , and at its second meeting discussed an officers ' draft paper which sought to undermine the boards and considered the pros and cons of the CNAA relating primarily to institutions as a whole . |
| 28 | In 1983 Mr St John Stevas promoted a private member 's bill , The National Audit Bill , which sought to give the Comptroller and Auditor General access to the accounts of nationalized industries so that his staff could investigate them as they do the accounts of government departments . |
| 29 | Attempts to develop a peinture feminine , on the lines of the écriture feminine proposed by Hélène Cixous ( whose rhapsodic feminism has had much greater impact on the Aglophone world than on her own French audience ) , led to works which sought to represent the very evanescence , immateriality , and ordinariness of women 's existential condition and past works , as in Bobby Baker 's performance art , in which she makes cakes or reproduces her daily kitchen routines , or , Susan Hiller 's cool , barometrically precise account of her own pregnancy , in the graphic work , ‘ Ten Months ’ . |
| 30 | The Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 , which sought to implement the Law Commission proposals , did not , therefore , eliminate the distinctions between conditions and warranties and innominate terms . |