Example sentences of "which [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Wilson recalled , his first experience of the courts occurred in April 1889 when he was fined five pounds and costs at Sunderland for having attempted to persuade two seamen to desert from the ss Edmonsley , an incident which Fairplay reported with glee . |
| 2 | You want to go across the grass and you 'll hit a path which goes left up there , past those houses . |
| 3 | The actual physical growth of the city helped this process , for many newer industries had been established in areas which lay outside the official boundaries but which became incorporated into the municipal administrative areas by the 1860s . |
| 4 | It was all a spoof , but taken for real by many viewers , particularly when cameramen collapsed and scratches mysteriously appeared on a girl 's face which became covered in blood and distorted . |
| 5 | All of which became hidden as she shrugged on an oversized khaki shirt , the sleeves hitched up to her elbows . |
| 6 | The Dimbleby newspapers had been printed by an associated company , Dimbleby Printers Ltd , which became engaged in a closed shop dispute with the National Graphical Association . |
| 7 | ‘ They did the same to the glass industry , which became based on the island of Murano . ’ |
| 8 | All Souls suffered like many Victorian churches from high , inaccessible valley gutters , which became clogged and allowed damp to seep into the building . |
| 9 | In particular , the litopterns , like the horses , lost all their toes except the middle one on each leg , which became enlarged as the bottom joint of the leg and developed a hoof . |
| 10 | It failed to convince the nation that authoritarian methods were necessary to solve Britain 's economic crisis and prevent further political decline , and it was blamed for fomenting the violence and public disorder which became associated with its activities in the 1930s . |
| 11 | " Survival of the strongest " , for instance , and its tooth-and-claw ethic which became associated with Social Darwinism , is not at all what Wallace had meant by " survival of the fittest " , where fitness was defined by him as a far subtler and more complex weave of forces than mere pugnacious self-interest . |
| 12 | From Aug. 1 East German agriculture also became subject to EC regulations , a change which became associated with a rapid worsening of farm incomes in East Germany [ see below ] . |
| 13 | It is certainly true that the most active social science departments gave rise to the approach to social science which became associated with participant observation , the more extensive use of the survey method as a means to examine attitudes and personality and , last but not least , the modern sociological use of the survey as a tool for the development of theory as in variable analysis . |
| 14 | The IHT deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267 do not apply to determine the settlor 's domicile for the purposes of this provision ( nor do they apply in respect of moving trust property abroad ) in relation to property which became comprised in the settlement before 10 December 1974 . |
| 15 | It is recorded that the area north of the river was probably uninhabitable with dense forests to the north and east of the area which became known later as Middlesex , with heath and scrub to the south , except along the margin of the river , which ‘ margin ’ was of considerable width . |
| 16 | He copied Montfort 's precedent by summoning national assemblies which became known as ‘ Parliaments ’ , although only consultative , with absolute power remaining with the King . |
| 17 | One such barge went with the office of the Lord Mayor of the City of London and that barge was quite frequently moored off the shore at Strand-on-the-Green , close to an inn which became known as ‘ The City Barge ’ . |
| 18 | His work with children was an adaptation of Laban 's principles of movement which became known in this country during the war . |
| 19 | Nevertheless the breaking of the German Enigma codes , which became known as the Ultra secret , played a vital role in winning the war and was the only good thing to come out of MI6 . |
| 20 | Militarily stronger by ten to one , Israel made Abdallah agree to an armistice in April 1949 whereby he ceded thirty villages in and near Wadi Ara , in the area which became known inside Israel as the Little Triangle . |
| 21 | Stirling himself was driving a hybrid vehicle that he had obtained in Cairo which became known as the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 22 | There was Florey 's original material , which became known as Penicillin-I or Penicillin-F ( for Florey ) ; Penicillin-II or Penicillin-G ( because G came after F ) from the Squibb Laboratories ; Penicillin-III or Penicillin-X from the laboratories at Peoria ; and Penicillin-IV or Penicillin-K from the Abbot Laboratories . |
| 23 | Mackay had no love for the Jacobite cause and in spite of his defeat at the Battle of Killiecrankie , he was given the task of subduing the Highlands , where he built the fort at the head of Loch Linnhe which became known as Fort William . |
| 24 | The sidings , which became known as Thornton Gate , opened with the arrival of the first coal train on September 23 1927 . |
| 25 | The first meeting place was a small room in Fetter Lane in 1840 which became known to some interested people who took a house in Red Lion Square where some destitute deaf men and women were lodged and taught trades . |
| 26 | The main national network , which became known as Idhaa ya Kiswahili ( ‘ The Swahili Service ’ ) , had as one of its main aims ‘ informing and educating public opinion ’ . |
| 27 | This process , which became known as impeachment , seems to have arisen by accident when de la Mare declared that he and his colleagues would maintain their charges in common . |
| 28 | The influence of Darwinian theory on Victorian social thought is often thought of in terms of ‘ the survival of the fittest ’ and the notions of struggle and competition which became known as ‘ Social Darwinism ’ . |
| 29 | In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage . |
| 30 | However , the Front was increasingly built up and reinforced by the North via the route which became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail . |