Example sentences of "which [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
| 2 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 3 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 4 | This table was made like a tray ; when lifted , its legs could be snapped up or snapped down — a solemn sort of conjuring trick which Twomey performed with quiet authority . |
| 5 | They made plans to meet in Harry 's room sometimes dating the Christmas Vacation which Edward devoted to intense preparations for an entrance scholarship to Merton and continuous work at Latin and Mathematics for Responsions . |
| 6 | When Ruth entered the study the vicar was sitting at his desk ; a large mahogany desk with a green leather top , which Ruth polished with loving care every Wednesday . |
| 7 | Central to this compromise was an agreement to increase support to " southern " countries for which Spain argued with particular vehemence and success . |
| 8 | A further benefit which England gained from continued possession of the residual Plantagenet inheritance was maritime supremacy . |
| 9 | The pattern of their relationship was to be repeated in many of the ‘ chance-started friendships ’ which Coleridge formed in later years . |
| 10 | Next month , the first £15m phase of Carden Park , which Broome acquired as sole proprietor in 1988 , will be opened . |
| 11 | On his return he gave Hocazade the Esediye medrese in Bursa with a salary of 10 akce a day , a post in which Hocazade remained for six years . |
| 12 | The sixth medium featured on the tape , recorded in January last year , said the dog she ‘ saw ’ had a short tail and was pushing her head into Tom 's hand , which Tom confirmed as typical Border Terrier behaviour . |
| 13 | But then the truth about the massive doses of poison which Allitt administered to those babies in her care was uncovered . |
| 14 | David Sieff asked us all to join in drinking Robin 's health , to which Robin replied in two sentences welcoming everyone and saying he hoped we would all come to his 100th birthday party ! |
| 15 | The distrust which Dicey felt concerning this tendency of party government to destroy the balance of parliamentary institutions caused him to advocate the use of various institutional control devices . |
| 16 | What this entailed for civil liberties may be gleaned by looking at the way in which Dicey dealt with traditional freedoms in the body of his work . |
| 17 | The same was true of Street Scene , which Vidor directed for Goldwyn-United Artists in 1931 . |
| 18 | The answer which Marx gave to this problem resembles that given later by Durkheim . |
| 19 | It is a central doctrine of Christianity that the womb of the Virgin Mary became the means by which God descended into human form and was born as Jesus Christ . |
| 20 | Some Franks were prepared to fight under the Roman Paul , just as Childeric 's men had once followed Aegidius according to a rather more legendary story which Gregory of Tours knew , but which Fredegar related at greater length . |
| 21 | Yet the message which Ho despatched on 15 December did not reach Paris until 26 December , and then yielded no response . |
| 22 | In return , the US negotiators agreed to Japanese demands for action on its spiralling budget deficit , which Japan blamed for excessive US consumer demand and for an excessively strong US dollar . |
| 23 | His name suggests that he was the scion of one of the great families of fifth-century Gaul , a family , indeed , which Sidonius held in great esteem . |
| 24 | This includes a book on the concept of causality , transcripts of dictations by Wittgenstein dating from the early 1930s , and a quantity of poems and aphorisms in which Waismann despaired about other philosophers and life in England . |
| 25 | The real problem was the Britannia Works in Middlesbrough which Skerne acquired after leading partner Walter Pease died in 1872 . |
| 26 | The Jacobites still had a toehold in England at Carlisle , which Cumberland reached on 21 December , the day after the rest of the rebels recrossed the Border into Scotland . |
| 27 | Before filming was finished , she had left Vadim , her director husband , for Jean-Louis Trintignant , her actor husband in the story , a situation which Vadim took with apparent aplomb as he continued to encourage her to strive for even more realism in his rival 's arms . |
| 28 | The arguments which Cassius made before this speech probably also helped to swing Brutus ' ides . |
| 29 | Both played in the Joshua Tetley Trophy match at Scarborough last September , which Essex won by 154 runs , but the only other survivors are John Glendenen and Simon Brown , who won the man-of-the-match award . |
| 30 | As this was an art movement which America embraced with unprecedented enthusiasm and unrivalled breadth of vision , and as we specialise so much in American art objects ( we showed at the Modernism Fair in New York last year ) , the theme has provided a vehicle to address the famously discriminating audience of Grosvenor House with objects normally found only in a handful of the most forward looking museums . |