Example sentences of "[indef pn] which [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were tasks for everyone which took account of intelligence , educational opportunities and personal gifts . |
| 2 | It soon became clear that nothing which came up to my expectations was open to me . |
| 3 | He held that the judge had done nothing which went outside the proper area of his inquiry . |
| 4 | There was nothing which resembled the missing page . |
| 5 | Since no one could imagine that in these circumstances or in any other circumstances anyone could successfully impersonate Ramsey , the ritual was a piece of legal nothing which allowed a Protestant agitator the chance of publicity which might help his own cause but must also help Ramsey . |
| 6 | A post-mortem examination of the occupants revealed nothing which contributed to the accident . |
| 7 | Baker , who described his role in the talks as attempting to impress upon the Iraqi government the determination of the 28-country coalition to eject Iraqi forces from Kuwait , said that he had " heard nothing which showed any Iraqi flexibility whatever " . |
| 8 | I saw my GP who prescribed a few different creams , none which worked . |
| 9 | The general shortage of comforts and of everything which kept us just above the lowest level of life was sufficiently great to make individuals cling to what they had with something like fanaticism . |
| 10 | Occasionally , he 'd bounce back on stage and do the whole thing with the strobe lights and everything which sent one poor little girl who had epilepsy into a fit . |
| 11 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 12 | It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today . |
| 13 | As Henry 's army advanced towards Mantes it burned and looted everything which lay in its path . |
| 14 | Everything which recalled the past of tsarist Russia should be destroyed and replaced by new Soviet forms . |
| 15 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 16 | In support of the proprietary argument the plaintiffs resorted to an analogy with the position of a trustee in bankruptcy , whose right and duty it was to get in everything which had been owned by the bankrupt , including his business documents . |
| 17 | Everything which had been kept hygienically wrapped was ripped open and thrown into the tray . |
| 18 | Around her and — more terribly — within her , everything which had once promised exultation and delight was warping to extravagance and vice . |
| 19 | She had recorded in her journal everything which had happened to her since she had arrived in London and she wanted no prying eyes to read what she had written . |
| 20 | The catalyst for everything which had happened had been Simon , she brooded . |
| 21 | The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity . |
| 22 | As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands . |
| 23 | He seemed to remember something about her , something which took him back into a happy past , before decision made his life difficult . |
| 24 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 25 | For this was something which came from right outside the audience 's experience or expectations . |
| 26 | The idea was to record and tour with the band , but Knopfler saw an essentially fun project with his mates develop into something which came close to getting out of hand . |
| 27 | Where Chartier went further was in asking whether nobility was something which came to a man by virtue of his birth ( and could therefore be inherited ) or whether it was accorded in recognition of merit ? |
| 28 | I do n't know , perhaps really like to relocate people , you know , that might be something which came as one of things they did was n't it , in the fifties and sixties . |
| 29 | At yesterday 's tree planting Mrs Frank thanked the pupils for their commitment to the community in doing something which benefited other people now and in the future . |
| 30 | More generally , Maud generated a climate for greater integration , something which became particularly appropriate during the preparations for reorganization when two major committees ( Bains for England and Wales , and Paterson for Scotland ) were established to advise on management structures for the new local authorities . |