Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relic terraces and raised fields in the Mayan lowlands of Central America have been interpreted as indicative of a settled , sophisticated , intensive , prehistoric agriculture , rather than shifting cultivation , which collapsed for just these reasons . |
| 2 | Mr Reynolds looked back also to an era of ‘ bureaucratic and commercial indifference which was perhaps understandable in the light of history but nevertheless misguided ’ and which resulted in even more destruction than was caused by the Troubles , such as of Coole Park ( the inspiration for two of Yeats 's most famous poems ) and of Bowenscourt in the 1960s , as well as much of Dublin 's eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 3 | However , I know of repeated pleas for action and the despair of so many small firms , one of which resulted in yet another suicide of someone whom I knew , resulting from business failure . |
| 4 | During the 1970s the Community was preoccupied with enlargement of the Community , institutional crises such as the Luxembourg accords , following the refusal of France to accept qualified majority ruling in the Council of Minsters , frequent budgetary difficulties and differences of view as to how the Community should be financed which resulted in very little progress towards the achievement of a single market . |
| 5 | Thus from the start he was temperamentally disposed to look not only at strategies which promised to save money but also at those which offered at least some hope ( if not of winning the Cold War ) of making gains at the expense of the USSR . |
| 6 | It is similarly unconvincing for UKOOA to say that it is not within its remit to consider trade union or labour relations when the Select Committee was presented with a previous UKOOA agreement and understanding dating from the 1970s , which dealt with exactly these points . |