Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of stairs and small rooms on each floor and no garden to speak of , only a kind of paved area leading off the basement kitchen which rarely got any sun . |
| 2 | POLICE and fire officers were last night still investigating the cause of a fire which badly damaged two car workshops in farm outbuildings . |
| 3 | At home he developed a system of close co-operation between management and trade union leaders which successfully improved economic performance and kept down unemployment . |
| 4 | About 1,200 members of the 1,400-strong central committee took part in the July 22 vote , which effectively delayed any party leadership contest at least until 1991 . |
| 5 | which effectively determined this case in the courts below and it is the law as so stated which the appellant prosecutor now challenges as an unwarranted judicial gloss upon the statutory language , as opposed to a legitimate construction of it . |
| 6 | It is however I think relevant to the debate on policies I five and I twelve , to the extent that the County Council adjustments to the wording of policy I five which would provide for the distributional strategy and its emphasis on directing development to locations in and adjacent to main urban areas , main towns and small towns , to be modified so as to pe permit major employment allocations to be made elsewhere and indeed on a scale which effectively improved distributional strategy . |
| 7 | On July 28 , the Speaker of the Majlis , Hojatolislam Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , was elected President , succeeding Khamenei , and assumed office on Aug. 17 ; also on July 28 voters in a referendum approved a number of constitutional amendments which effectively increased presidential authority . |
| 8 | In addition , international competition forced the company to sell Garrard Engineering to a Third World ( Brazilian ) firm which eventually transferred all production to the assisted area of Manaus , on the Amazon , with 4,000 job losses in Swindon between 1975 and 1982 . |
| 9 | Two other characteristics which mostly attracted indirect mention but which , nevertheless , were important included : purity , in the sense of not containing other substances ; dependability in the sense that the product can always be relied upon to meet the mothers ' standard ( viz softness , non-irritant , pure ) . |
| 10 | It is this era which is drawing to a close and , with it , the peculiar mixture of promise and peril which long characterised Soviet life . |
| 11 | A referendum held on July 28 , 1989 , backed constitutional amendments which greatly strengthened presidential authority [ see p. 36833 ] . |
| 12 | The Vulcan , which only saw active service during one raid in the Falklands campaign … was at the heart of Britain 's Air Defence for thirty years . |
| 13 | The incident began this morning in a category-B jail which only opened last summer , and was described then as the flagship of the prison system |
| 14 | But the temperature sensor in the tank was n't working , and the fuel could have reached 180 degrees … turning it into explosive gas which only needed one spark to ignite it . |
| 15 | Only small Roman fragments have been found in Stamford — Sharp 's ‘ clearly traceable ’ Roman camp which apparently stood one furlong north-west of the town is untraceable — but there is the site of a villa just to the west of the town . |
| 16 | BSE , a disease which attacked the brain and nervous system , was believed to have been passed on to cattle through cattle feed containing the remains of sheep infected with scrapie , a similar disease endemic in the UK for over 200 years which apparently posed little risk to human health . |
| 17 | Arguably not , because until recently most political scientists saw the Diet as an institution which merely gave symbolic ratification to legislation handed down by the executive . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , he attempted to settle the continuing conflict between Henry the Lion and his numerous opponents , which so weakened German unity . |
| 19 | He was also committed to and involved in the admission of women to the medical school , which obviously involved much tact and understanding in order to break down prejudices . |
| 20 | I was directed to a table set under one of the deep arches and which already had one occupant . |
| 21 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
| 22 | Constance frequently reiterated that she would never buy anything that had belonged to somebody else , that meant something to them , that had been warm against their skin or over the fireplace : only brand-new articles , the stuff of commerce in transit between factory and store , the owners of which already had more money than was good for them and were themselves no better than they should be . |
| 23 | In a tactical retreat which largely quelled back-bench dissent , the President of the Board of Trade announced a two-year breathing space for the collieries at a cost of £500million in government subsidies . |
| 24 | Cases of wounding by pistol shots occasionally came before the courts and in at least one instance a child was killed , although apparently by accident , which nevertheless brought great notoriety to the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell Pistol Gang ’ . |
| 25 | So ended the formal history of the Angevin dominions — Henry III and his successors were to retain only their south-western French lands de jure and de facto , held as fiefs of the French crown in liege homage , a form of tenure which normally implied feudal service . |
| 26 | An audible groan rippled through the new Form Two , quelled at once by one of Miss Hardbroom 's piercing glances which always made each pupil feel that they had been noticed personally . |
| 27 | The political forces which once made that movement move are now enveloped in a catastrophe that has two distinct dimensions . |
| 28 | It involves the incorporation of two large rooms from the Archivio Segreto Vaticano , on the floor above , to house funerary and domestic objects of terracotta , and of other rooms which once housed Greek art . |
| 29 | In chambers 1a and 1b there are some rotted wooden chairs and tables , a couple of quivers of crossbow bolts and a heap of human bones : the inanimate remains of the Skeletons which once guarded this place . |
| 30 | Studies conducted since April 1988 convey mothers ' powerful sense that , as their poverty deepens , strategies which once gave some protection to their families are crumbling under the weight of increasing debt ( Cohen , 1990 , 1991 a , b ; Craig and Glendinning , 1990a , 1990b ; Craig , 1991 ) . |