Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 2 | … not noise , but something more like an invisible hammer which smacked into both ears at once . |
| 3 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 4 | A suggested reason for this decision is that to grant an action would have subverted the common law negligence action which lay in these circumstances . |
| 5 | The rich merchants contributed to the magnificent civic building which arose in those years ; the town and guild halls , exchanges , municipal belfries , warehouses and city houses . |
| 6 | Following the death of a land owner , his land would be divided between his sons ; as the population increased the fragmentation which resulted from this approach became increasingly serious . |
| 7 | Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem . |
| 8 | When master-manufacturers talked of the danger of communism which lurked behind any limitation of the absolute right of employers to hire and fire at will , they meant not social revolution but merely that the right of property and the right of domination were indistinguishable , and a bourgeois society must go to the dogs once interference with property rights was permitted . |
| 9 | The first person to teach it officially was probably Quatrefages in 1855 , in the professorship which existed in this subject at the Musée National in Paris . |
| 10 | Like many other groups , this group felt that the narrative which resulted from this strategy was 'smoother " , more balanced and more neatly structured . |
| 11 | So a drug which acted during this phase , a ‘ true causal prophylactic ’ , was exactly what was wanted , but how was it to be found ? |
| 12 | He developed a flu-like cold which lasted for several days . |
| 13 | The paper dated 15 February 1983 before the works committee which resolved on that date to grant permission , contains a reference to the number of lorries anticipated at the Gillingham Gate daily and under the same heading ‘ Traffic-Safety and Freeflow ’ has a different entry from the one I have referred to . |
| 14 | He watched me intently , eyes narrowed against the sun which struck into this side of the courtyard , waiting for me to give a reasonable answer , which was foolish of him . |
| 15 | He did not rate his findings on the antibacterial substance worthy of a full paper , and included them in a publication which dealt with several substances derived from Penicillia . |
| 16 | On Jan. 15 the Cabinet approved a plan which called on all groups and individuals voluntarily to hand over small-calibre weapons by mid-March . |
| 17 | Poxed , disfigured scavengers scuttled across hillocks of debris which rained into this underworld from a low steel sky by way of chutes and grilles . |
| 18 | Goals from John Morrissey , John Aldridge and Neil McNab put paid to Southend in front of 5,870 fans , but there was a slack spell in the second half which led to some booing . |
| 19 | Police were today trying to find out what happened during an seven hour ordeal which began on this country road in Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | The question which arose in those cases was whether the cessation of trade , in the sense of ‘ putting the shutters up , ’ immediately deprived the court of bankruptcy jurisdiction over the married woman , or whether it continued while the trade debts remained unpaid . |
| 21 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 22 | The incident was highlighted on Sky TV and spotted by the club 's committee when they watched a video of the clash between John Devereux and Keith England in the same match which resulted in both men being sent off and banned for two games . |
| 23 | Much of the historical evidence presented in this chapter suggests that under the harsh conditions of poverty which prevailed for most people in the early industrial period , family relationships necessarily were highly instrumental , with support being offered only if there was some hope of mutual benefit precisely because anything else would have been an unaffordable luxury . |
| 24 | The relationships between site factors and soil erosion which emerged from this study are given in Table 8.5 . |
| 25 | President 's rule was imposed in Meghalaya on Oct. 11 , ending a two-month crisis which erupted after some deputies switched loyalties and precipitated a power struggle between the ruling Meghalaya United Parliamentary Party ( MUPP ) and the Congress ( I ) -backed United Meghalaya Parliamentary Forum ( UMPF ) . |
| 26 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 27 | The climate which developed in this period in Britain was one in which the prejudices of the judiciary were reinforced by a media campaign supportive of the Tory Party 's ideas on moral decay and over-dependence upon the state . |
| 28 | The man who issued every order and arranged every detail of the lying and brutality which resulted in these massacres was Brigadier Toby Low … subsequently ennobled ( in 1962 ) as the first Baron Aldington . ’ |
| 29 | The other factor which contributed to this effect was his decision to become a broadcaster . |
| 30 | Verdicts were , however , subject to ‘ review ’ by the Supreme Court on six rather ill-defined grounds , a procedure which led to much confusion . |