Example sentences of "which had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The catalyst for the Democrat civil rights bill was the decision in 1989-90 by the newly-created conservative majority on the Supreme Court to reverse five key rulings , each of which had assisted minorities to press employment discrimination law suits . |
| 2 | The decision was an uncomfortable one which had troubled Ministers over several months and caused dissension in the Labour Party . |
| 3 | By the mid-1920s the disunity which had plagued China since the 191 1 revolution showed some prospect of ending as the Nationalist party , the Guomindang , consolidated its control over large areas of the country . |
| 4 | The solid state seemed more complicated ; and because of the problems of purity , which had plagued Crookes in his work on lanthanum and its congeners , it was very difficult to get consistent results with interesting elements like selenium . |
| 5 | SLORC , the military junta which had assumed power at the height of 1988 's political unrest , allowed a general election to take place in May 1990 for a Constituent Assembly which would be charged with drafting a new constitution . |
| 6 | On May 1 Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser was named as chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) , the body which had assumed control of the country after a successful coup against President Joseph Momoh on April 30 [ see pp. 38552-54 ] . |
| 7 | No small group of favourites emerged to monopolize access to the king or royal patronage : even the Hainaulters at court attracted little of the obloquy that surrounded the Savoyards and Henry III 's court , and the families which had suffered forfeiture in the political violence between 1322 and 1330 were gradually restored . |
| 8 | He suspended the sentences for three years , ordering that the suspension will not operate until repayment of £1,080 is made to the firms which had suffered loss . |
| 9 | A fund of TT$50,000,000 was established in August 1990 to provide loans to small and medium-sized businesses which had suffered losses during the rioting and looting . |
| 10 | The PR team in the Triple Crown press trailer faxed out releases at the start of the day which had hit England in time for the next morning 's edition . |
| 11 | Despite the death of President Samuel Doe on Sept. 11 at the hands of Prince Yormie Johnson 's rebel group , fighting continued throughout September in the conflict which had ravaged Liberia since December 1989 . |
| 12 | His statements on the latter issue threatened to revive the scandal which had followed discovery in February of the sale [ see p. 38019 ] . |
| 13 | Edward 's coup was not , therefore , followed by the lavish displays of patronage which had followed Edward II 's victory in 1322 or the triumph of Mortimer and Isabella in 1327 , and there was no immediate and general reversal of the judgements of 1326–7 . |
| 14 | The stability which had characterized Edward IV 's last years had thus collapsed , almost overnight , into a struggle for control during the minority which was in the end to lose his son the throne . |
| 15 | The stability which had characterized Edward IV 's last years had thus collapsed , almost overnight , into a struggle for control during the minority which was in the end to lose his son the throne . |
| 16 | Between 1985 and 1987 the leading Shiite militia , Amal , attacked the south Beirut refugee camps with the same ferocity which had characterized attacks by the Maronites in the preceding phase of civil war . |
| 17 | State intervention , collectivism and political consensus , which had characterized politics after 1945 , were seen as significant causes of economic decline and social dependency . |
| 18 | The Rev. Donald Macaulay , chair of the Western Isles council which had lost £23,000,000 , resigned in early September and two other senior officials of the council were suspended on Sept. 11 . |
| 19 | Aircraft belonging to Air Europe , the British scheduled airline which carried over 3,500,000 passengers in 1990 , were grounded on March 8 following the collapse of its parent company , International Leisure Group , which had lost £5,000,000 between November 1990 and the end of January 1991 . |
| 20 | Also , whatever their dissimilarities , they all had the advantage of good geographical definition ( the only exception being France , whose eastern frontier had been carried to the Alps by Napoleon III , but which had lost Alsace and Lorraine to Germany in 1871 ) . |
| 21 | All the HZDS and Slovak National Party deputies and most of those from the former communist Party of the Democratic Left voted in favour ; all the Christian Democratic Movement ( KDH ) deputies , which had lost power in the June election , voted against . |
| 22 | All the HZDS and Slovak National Party deputies and most of those from the former communist Party of the Democratic Left voted in favour ; all the Christian Democratic Movement ( KDH ) deputies , which had lost power in the June election , voted against . |
| 23 | Returning to a job which they had already ‘ used up ’ or which had lost value in their eyes |
| 24 | He said that last year £30,000 worth of produce had been lost in similar incidents and urged the Prime Minister to give an assurance that he would approach the French government to ensure that the culprits were brought to justice and that compensation was paid to all the British firms which had lost cash . |
| 25 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 26 | APRIL 9 : Silverstone Circuits Ltd ( SCL ) secretly enter a deal with TWR Group to buy a small retail garage business called M H One Ltd , which had lost £0.8m in 1991 . |
| 27 | Bush had blocked or vetoed two bills before finally agreeing to a compromise formula which had extended benefits for 13 or 20 weeks beyond the standard 26 weeks of benefits provided under state unemployment programmes [ see pp. 38428 ; 38521 ; 38568 ] . |
| 28 | The talks were attended by all the other parties which had secured representation in the National Assembly [ see p. 39129 ] . |
| 29 | The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk . |
| 30 | One of its members was an insurance company which had appointed W. Plc. as its ‘ appointed representative ’ within the meaning of section 44(2) of the Act . |