Example sentences of "which [vb past] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much work was needed to prepare enough radium to treat patients , but once it was made , it was a more convenient source of radiation than the apparatus , extremely primitive by modern standards , which produced X-rays from electric discharges . |
| 2 | It seems almost certain that the chloroplasts of higher plants ( the intracellular organs of photosynthesis ) are descended from free-living blue-green algae which became symbionts inside other cells . |
| 3 | All this was achieved in the face of difficulties which deterred men with less gusto than Thomas and John Mason . |
| 4 | The history of astronomy also disclosed a succession of hypotheses , which made claims for physical truth look precarious . |
| 5 | Such a tactic of isolating one group of workers from the control of technology was tried by another company I visited , which made goods from rubber moulds . |
| 6 | One was the collection of anecdotes , culled from Greek and Roman history , which made points of military importance : armies should avoid having their backs to a river when confronting the enemy in battle ( Bertrand du Guesclin ignored this advice , with fatal results , at Nájera in April 1367 ) ; or , attempts should be made to manoeuvre armies so that the sun shone in the enemy 's eyes . |
| 7 | Nationally the war did lead to one innovation when the government created an imaginative attempt to cope with teacher shortage in the Emergency Training Service , which trained teachers without academic qualifications after national service . |
| 8 | So to begin with some remarks on the words which created trusts in Roman law . |
| 9 | The case highlights the extent to which it was possible for the religious intellectuals to misjudge exactly where the consensus lay , as well as the extent to which an evolving historical situation which created areas for new decision-making provided the field for a new power contest . |
| 10 | Mother and children spent 1/2d a week on lunches and all shared the Sunday joint , which provided suppers for two days in the week following . |
| 11 | Cattle stealing was an institution which provided benefits to different groups . |
| 12 | The international operation , which involved overflights of Iraqi territory , was referred to variously as operation " Poised Hammer " or " Provide Comfort " [ see also pp. 38690 ; 38789 ; 38886 ] . |
| 13 | As BNFL News went to press results of the judging — which involved votes from 200 delegates — had yet to come through … |
| 14 | At York he was able to write a weighty book , From Gore to Temple , which traced changes in Christian thought in England during the last eighty years . |
| 15 | The development of new fonts used to be the business of companies like Linotype and Monotype , which built typesetters with proprietary technology . |
| 16 | Mice which had received material from the brains of the trained rats , Ungar claimed , also refused to enter the dark box , whereas animals which received materials from naïve animals showed no such inhibitions . |
| 17 | In 1951 , another purine , 6-mercaptopurine ( 6-MP ) , was found which caused remissions in some leukaemias . |
| 18 | The conference , which attracted communicators from seven denominations , was initiated by WACC member , Diane Gilliam-Knight who is Director of Communication for the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand . |
| 19 | We have , therefore , chosen a control group , which comprised patients with normal liver function tests and in whom the gall bladder was removed during liver resection . |
| 20 | Contestants would engage in three types of contest : close combat , in which knights would fight on foot with blunted daggers , swords or spears ; jousting or tilting , in which mounted knights on either side of a low barrier would charge each other with blunted lances ; and contests of skill in which mounted knights would attempt to skewer rings from posts . |
| 21 | Collegiate churches were just as vulnerable to royal exploitation , especially if they were one of the royal free chapels — e.g. Windsor or Hastings — which resembled colleges of royal officials rather than religious foundations . |
| 22 | The crisis was caused by the climatic phenomenon of " thermal inversion " , which trapped emissions at near-ground level . |
| 23 | Gloucester 's modern docks were created in 1827 with the building of the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal , which allowed vessels of 750 tons to reach the city by avoiding the dangers of the Severn estuary . |
| 24 | This ‘ In nomine ’ of Taverner 's is an almost exact transcription of the section ‘ In nomine Domini ’ of the Benedictus of his Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas ( on the Sarum version of a Vesper antiphon for Trinity Sunday ) , and it was this segment of plainsong , sometimes with quotation of Taverner 's other parts , which served generations of English composers as cantus firmus for contrapuntal ‘ fancies ’ . |
| 25 | The political and military support given by Egypt to the United States-led coalition in the Gulf war was regarded as an important factor in the Paris Club debt relief , which supplemented write-offs of Egyptian debt by the United States and the Gulf Co-operation Council countries in October 1990 [ see p. 37795 ] . |
| 26 | From at least 1805 , therefore , there existed within the French foreign ministry a bureau which collected details of foreign armies and navies and their movements . |
| 27 | The opposition Awami League opposed the motion , which followed attempts in early July to restore parliamentary rule and to ratify the appointment of acting President , Shehabuddin Ahmed , and all actions taken by him during his tenure . |
| 28 | Though medical science believed that the muscles affected by polio simply withered and could not be restored , she was convinced that the deformities which followed attacks of infantile paralysis were caused by muscle spasms . |
| 29 | However , Nkrumah 's own proposals for an independence constitution were vetoed in favour of a Colonial Office draft which imposed limitations on Ministerial authority in the new Ghana . |
| 30 | Walker found that the Latvians were keen to shrug off the secrecy which surrounded prisons under Soviet rule . |