Example sentences of "which [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , it has been pointed out that there was no net increase in total real wealth between 1913 and 1951 , and in this context the world wars are cast as the harpies which devoured the accumulated efforts of previous generations . |
| 2 | The existing management was organised around establishments , each with its own board of management , its own financial system , its own marketing and commercial organisation , its safety infrastructure , administration and so on , but with business interests which overlapped the other establishments . |
| 3 | This is the action in the famous Argyll v. Argyll , which concerned the possible disclosure of intimate marital secrets . |
| 4 | But this was an empirical observation which concerned the economic circumstances of a particular country at a particular period of time : it had nothing whatever to do with his general theory of employment . |
| 5 | This does not mean that conventional men of intelligence and ability thought that either science or society had solved all problems , though in some respects , such as those which concerned the basic pattern of an economy and the basic pattern of the physical universe , some very able ones felt that all substantial ones had been solved . |
| 6 | Since the working class is the largest group and the group which concerned the educational reformers of 1944 , it is the natural choice of a base for the class variable . |
| 7 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 8 | There was a lipless mouth , their were deep eye sockets from which gleamed the small evil , old eyes of the necromancer . |
| 9 | Tolkien did not believe in ‘ old religions ’ or ‘ witch-cults ’ ; C. S. Lewis wrote a paper called ‘ The Anthropological Approach ’ which damned the learned variety of that error beyond redemption . |
| 10 | While the interests which ruled the foreign policies of European states might differ , the machinery which put them into effect did not . |
| 11 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China . |
| 12 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution ; it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China ( ROC ) . |
| 13 | He went into his narrow lobby , picked up the phone , pressed the button which operated the visual screen . |
| 14 | In its origin feudalism provided for the recruitment of vitally needed cavalry troops in a society which lacked the liquid money to pay troops in cash . |
| 15 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 16 | It seems necessary for it to have what has been called a ‘ cognitive map ’ in its head ; that is , it would have to have something which conveyed the same information as is conveyed by Figure 10 . |
| 17 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 18 | Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell . |
| 19 | The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches . |
| 20 | A few did succeed in reaching the border , however , and on Aug. 13 at least 15 dissidents cut through a barbed wire fence only to be arrested as they rushed towards the Demilitarized Zone which divided the two Korean states . |
| 21 | By mid-1991 Denmark was nearing agreement with Sweden on a long-standing plan to bridge the Öresund straits which divided the two countries [ see p. 38402 ] . |
| 22 | Their first task was to rebuild the wall which divided the front room from the back parlour . |
| 23 | As with so many of the apparently unreal differences on the Left it was organizational rather than principled considerations which divided the Communist and non-Communist advocates of Unity . |
| 24 | The line which divided the labouring poor into the potential militants of labour movement and the rest was not sharp , and yet it existed . |
| 25 | Since the Hungarians had forced him to accept the famous ‘ Compromise ’ of June 1867 which divided the Austrian dominions , Franz-Joseph 's field of action in foreign policy was limited by pressures from the Hungarian half of the Empire . |
| 26 | Assaulted by a tumbler of wine and the smell of much mixed nervous human activity , I was soon crawling about on several elbows , being splashed from high above by excess wine while my eyes , ears and mouth were up there and at the same level of height of depth as everyone else , adding to the massed attempt to obliterate the loud dancing music which obliterated the loud dancing which packed the conversations into pouring constipations . |
| 27 | However , Airbus Industrie , the four-country European consortium which manufactured the A-320 , had long argued that " fly-by-wire " avionics , by which flying control systems were initially activated electronically rather than hydraulically , made the aircraft safer . |
| 28 | The UNP — led by Chung Ju Yung , the founder of the Hyundai group , the country 's second-largest industrial conglomerate — secured 31 seats ( 24 in direct voting and seven in the national constituency ) after a vigorous , centrist , pro-business campaign , which attacked the economic record of the Roh government , and in particular its inability to reduce inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of approximately 10 per cent . |
| 29 | Films were made which attacked the small screen . |
| 30 | Fireflies were also among aircraft which attacked the Japanese carrier Kaiyo on July 24 , leaving her ablaze with a broken back . |