Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |
| 2 | Central and local government activities outside the strict limits of the Poor Law expanded , much of it guided by the principles which ruled poor relief . |
| 3 | An English memorandum of May 1311 also attributed the difficulties of governance in Aquitaine to the ‘ arrogant presumption of the nobles and magnates [ potentium ] of the land ’ which engendered frivolous appeals to the court of France . |
| 4 | Hilary and June had the opportunity to explain the work of our Society which engendered considerable interest . |
| 5 | During the War , seasonal traffic declined , but there was a new requirement for troop carriers by the R.A.F. , which operated major training facilities in Blackpool . |
| 6 | The press made much of his brother Geoffrey 's Chairmanship of the Tramway Museum Society , which operated vintage trams at its Museum in Derbyshire . |
| 7 | The ideological dimension favoured in the explanation of Continental fertility differences seems less applicable to Britain , which lacked major foci of religious or social dissent . |
| 8 | Some past investments in Scotch have exposed small holdings which lacked expert advice . |
| 9 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 10 | Based on a study of fifteen abandoned sites in the Paragominas region south of Belém , each of which experienced varying degrees of land-use intensity , Buschbacher et al. have shown that only those sites where low- and medium-intensity use were practised are likely to return to a forest cover . |
| 11 | A country which experienced volatile movements in capital flows , operating under a floating regime , would find that balance of payments equilibrium might be attained only by tolerating very wide swings in the foreign exchange value of its currency . |
| 12 | This process has diminished the role which experienced local skills and capital could have played , and even the allocation of opportunities to the indigenous entrepreneur has seldom been fairhanded , and free of localism and corruption . |
| 13 | Other words which designated sexual traits , such as nymphomania , narcissism , autoeroticism , kleptomania , urolagnia and many others , began to seep into scientific discourse by the end of the century and the beginning of the twentieth century , indicating a new concern with detail-ing sexual variations , and with using sex as a distinguishing mark between individuals . |
| 14 | Will it be the Minister , the Secretary of State , the employers , the trade unions or some quango in which failed Tory Members of Parliament serve on inflated salaries ? |
| 15 | She was however obliged to heed the advice of a task force she appointed to examine the AGO 's operations , and which recommended increased support . |
| 16 | Lloyd George spent large sums of his private fortune ( acquired in rather dubious circumstances as a treasure chest for the Coalition Liberals between 1917 and 1922 ) , in research activity which recommended radical policies for the Liberals in areas such as land reform and unemployment policy in the 1920s . |
| 17 | There were British studios , like Rank 's Independent Producers or Ealing in the 1940s , that , for a time at least , produced a similarly productive working environment , providing constraints for directors and writers to work against , and dedicated script departments which produced competent material for them to work from . |
| 18 | Standard curves were obtained using synthetic platelet activating factor ( Bachem , Switzerland ) , which produced typical dose dependant platelet aggregation when added at 0.5–50 pg/tube . |
| 19 | Several of the calculations which produced low success rates could probably be undertaken with a good deal more success in the actual context concerned . |
| 20 | The information was then fed into a computer which produced individual body reports together with advice on how to become more fit and healthy . |
| 21 | Whatever the particular context of such changes , these studies demonstrate that a set of transformations in material culture which may be found to permeate almost every trivial domain , from chimneys to rubbish disposal , can be understood as a largely unconscious and unintentional response by a variety of social groups , which produced new forms of demand and new means of incorporating the emergence of mass produced items . |
| 22 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 23 | They were most marked on the heavy clays that overlie most of the Midlands , which produced good pastures . |
| 24 | The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention . |
| 25 | A local case which produced front-page headlines — ‘ Vicious schemer ’ is jailed for life SHAM TEARS OF AN EVIL WIFE — described how a former Coventry man who had moved to become a licensee in a Yorkshire pub had been killed by his 32-year-old wife and her barman lover . |
| 26 | Water supply , which produced great reservoirs , gas supply and electricity , paved roads , urban transport , waste disposal and considerable numbers of public buildings and parks , all had a dramatic effect on the landscape and so their omission is serious . |
| 27 | This rather lethargic spell by both teams was characterised by accurate drawing which produced tight heads but very little fire . |
| 28 | He was a great businessman who ran a company which produced unique goods for 70 or 80 years . |
| 29 | Arguments were fuelled by Diana 's bulimia which produced wild mood swings . |
| 30 | Marx and Engels repeatedly emphasized that by ‘ dialectically ’ confronting what was contradictory in the main intellectual currents of their day , and by forcibly demonstrating the class biases which produced intellectual contradictions , their own distinctive theories could be developed and enhanced . |