Example sentences of "[Wh det] come [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN Security Council ultimatum , which came amidst renewed US threats of a military offensive against Iraq [ see p. 38307 ] , had been handed to government officials by a delegation of UN weapons inspectors who arrived in Baghdad on June 30 . |
| 2 | The very term necropolis , which came into common usage , harked back to the pre-Christian era . |
| 3 | Like the beta-blocking drugs which came into clinical use later , their effects were not predicted but were undoubtedly useful . |
| 4 | Since their traditional migration routes lay in areas which came under Russian influence fairly early ( Tornsk , Kuznetsk and Tara districts ) , they established economic , political and cultural contacts with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | As agreed with the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries in November [ see p. 38581 ] , Vneshekonombank ( the Soviet bank for foreign economic affairs ) , which came under Russian control in December [ see p. 38581 ] , ceased principal repayments on the Soviet Union 's foreign debt from Dec. 5 . |
| 6 | The Cayman Islands , which came under British rule in 1670 , were a dependency of Jamaica until 1959 , and governed by the Governor of Jamaica until they became a United Kingdom Dependent Territory on Jamaican independence in 1962 . |
| 7 | Sterling , which came under intense selling pressure on continued reaction to August 's dire trade figures , fell to a low against the German mark at DM3.0081 on Wednesday . |
| 8 | Its berries glistened red under the burnish of the breeze , which came in uneasy gusts from the south and east . |
| 9 | If one reads the union press ; if one follows case histories of individual factories , one obtains the impression of a general intensification of the work process , which came in different ways and used different methods : reduction in labour-time on a particular machine operation ; supervision of an increased number of machines ; increased assembly line speeds ; spread of incentive payments systems ; increase in heavy and onerous work loads . |
| 10 | She held out her hand with deliberate provocation and , drawing him down on the edge of the bed beside her , she gave a little laugh which came from deep in her throat . |
| 11 | Mr Moynihan blamed his defeat on the ‘ collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote , which came from Labour some years ago and has to some extent returned there ’ . |
| 12 | C. All these factories were using wool , most of which came from other parts of Britain . |
| 13 | An interesting architectural style evolved here , generally called Asturian , which came from Visigothic designs but also embodied Carolingian features of construction . |
| 14 | The main feature of this system was the relatively small and , on trend , declining proportion of public revenue which came from direct taxation . |
| 15 | For instance , if the proportion of domestic consumption which came from domestic production rose then this may result from trade suppression , or the existence of dynamic effects producing lower prices in an industry exhibiting comparative advantage within the integrated area . |
| 16 | Product sales generated £31.1m up from £30.1m in 1991 , some 58% of which came from overseas subsidiaries . |
| 17 | The Commission 's report was perhaps the turning point , for while it paid respect to the management it found ‘ to be totally dedicated to the railway with a high degree of pride in the service which came before financial reward in importance ’ , it made thought-provoking recommendations about management style and the need to set clearer financial objectives . |
| 18 | erm but there , there are elements of that which come into social work , I would have thought . |
| 19 | It may of course turn out that there are after all good independent reasons for respecting the intuitive judgements which come from long experience . |
| 20 | They include inspectorates , audit bodies , scientific research bodies and management consultants , all of which come from different traditions of evaluation . |
| 21 | In addition , some packaging which comes into close contact with food has implications on human health and quality of food . |
| 22 | A more recent concern is the risk posed by food which comes into close contact with bleached paper products . |
| 23 | For those readers who are optically minded , you might also like to ponder over the design difficulties associated with a lens system which comes into direct contact with water , where the refractive indices of the organic water-based lens and the surrounding watery medium itself are very similar . |
| 24 | .. ’ Nor is it merely the heavy stuff which comes with serious credentials . |
| 25 | IT 'S NOW been three years since ‘ French Kiss ’ house-humped its steamy way into world clubdom 's consciousness and catapulted Lil' Louis into the overnight celebrity which comes with sudden chart action . |
| 26 | The Atari XE is an £80 games console which comes with dedicated cassette recorder and an add-on keyboard which can be used for word processing or , say , adventure games . |
| 27 | So here we have the genesis of the doctrine of ‘ driver 's preference ’ which comes to full fruition in the judgment of Bingham L.J . |
| 28 | As Janet Baker , the singer , wrote , about going to hear her colleague Lena Horne perform : ‘ We could n't take our eyes off her , she has the charisma , the beauty , which comes from great discipline ’ ( Full Circle , Penguin , 1984 ) . |
| 29 | Proper structures are desirable in themselves but by themselves they are never a substitute for that vital Christian life which comes from personal commitment to follow Jesus Christ . |
| 30 | Fado is music with Arabic roots which comes from continental Portugal . |