Example sentences of "[num] which [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed an agreement in Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , on May 12 which provided for the forcible repatriation of all Vietnamese " economic refugees " from Hong Kong . |
| 2 | It was his publication in 1763 of what the courts decided to be a seditious libel on George III which led to the judicial decision that general warrants were illegal ( see p. 136 ) . |
| 3 | The names and dates tell their own story : the Treason Act of 1842 , passed after an impotent attempt to frighten the sovereign by a young hunchback with a faultily loaded pistol ; the Vagrancy Act of 1824 which allowed the flogging of ‘ incorrigible rogues ’ , commonly elderly tramps , and which has come into more recent notoriety through the ‘ sus ’ laws ; the Diplomatic Privileges Act of 1708 which offered protection to Ambassadors and their servants ; and the Knacker 's Act of 1786 which dealt with the irregular slaughter of horses and cattle . |
| 4 | GKR laid the foundations of a world network in the 1970s which broadened in the following decade from Europe to the Far East . |
| 5 | The Knesset approved legislation on March 18 which provided for the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | By this time the Jewish community in Greece had dwindled to something like 6,000 ( from the 11,000 which remained after the Nazi occupation ; 75,000 having been liquidated ) . |
| 7 | Syria and the International Atomic Energy Association ( IAEA ) signed accords in Vienna , Austria , on March 25 which allowed for the future inspection of all nuclear sites in Syria [ see p. 38788 for visit by IAEA officials to Syria in February ] . |