Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] which [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planning authorities , it was claimed , showed an unsympathetic attitude to applications from young people for new homes or businesses despite the Government 's Local Needs Policy which aimed to retain young people in the countryside . |
| 2 | They found paper which appeared to match the death threat to MacQuillan and the note to Wainfleet ; and they took away a pair of trousers with worn pockets . |
| 3 | It was the same sort of low church dissenting background which had produced many first generation medics like Kay and Wakley . |
| 4 | Among those pardoned was former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger whose forthcoming trial , which was due to have begun on Jan. 5 , had produced documentation which had suggested that Bush had been much more deeply involved in the affair than he had ever previously been acknowledged [ see also p. 39087 ] . |
| 5 | The company pleaded guilty at Kirkby Magistrates ' Court to a total of 15 charges , including having for sale six packs of sausages containing fat which had gone rancid and two packets of meat contaminated by mould . |
| 6 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 7 | Gradually he had started to reject food which had increased her level of anxiety and gained him more attention . |
| 8 | Any medical personnel found to have the virus were immediately banned from performing surgery which involved working inside the body , said the spokesman . |
| 9 | Just too late to serve the dwindling numbers of travelling public which had relied heavily on the railways , it remained open for only 40 years , during which time the car came more and more into ascendancy as a means of transport . |
| 10 | Alongside all this , gaining momentum in the second half of the century , was a new taxonomic and labelling zeal which attempted to classify ‘ scientifically ’ the characteristics and increasingly the aetiologies of the forms of sexual variety , and in so doing helped construct them as objects of study and as sexual categories . |
| 11 | Riven chewed bread which had turned to sand in his mouth . |
| 12 | He was a cheery chap who wore a frock coat and a soiled black felt hat which had seen better days . |
| 13 | The Supreme Court on April 28 increased the sentences on 13 people found guilty in May 1989 by the National High Court of marketing adulterated cooking oil which had led to the deaths of 600 people and made over 25,000 ill , many of them seriously [ see p. 36668 ] . |
| 14 | In 1976 Britain , or more strictly England and Wales , introduced legislation which sought to control the worst excesses of the press and the courts in relation to rape . |
| 15 | In the general improvement of the clergy , canon 18 of the Fourth Lateran Council declared that henceforth clergy were not to take part in the pronouncement of the death penalty , to fight or duel , or to perform surgery which involved cutting or burning . |
| 16 | It has been mentioned earlier however , that with gunpowder , Roe modified the old 17th century hand chiselled level which became known as Cobbler 's Level . |
| 17 | : WHEN Ian Smith caught Graham Gooch off the bowling of Danny Morrison in the first Test match last winter he broke a New Zealand wicketkeeping record which had stood for 45 years . |