Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His next film is a ‘ character mystery ’ — not a musical — about Weegee , the famous news photographer of the Depression years , named for his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime with a speed which suggested the use of an ouija board . |
| 2 | She was staring at the coffin , the wooden box with fancy trimmings which held the mortal remains of Edwin Garland , her uncle and employer . |
| 3 | Calling for regional peace , the leaders issued co-operation guidelines which included the establishment of a joint body to formulate and implement aid policy . |
| 4 | The move was supported last night by the Automobile Association which said the system already worked well in England and Wales . |
| 5 | The Conservatives focused their attention more on the needs of agriculture and the church than urban landlords , but there was a strand in Party thinking which accepted the principle of State aid for housing . |
| 6 | However , the possibilities and limits of improvement were determined by a number of factors : existing classroom expertise , individual school and classroom circumstances , professional attitudes and commitments ; and , framing all of these , the quality of the thinking which informed the appraisal of existing practice and the exploration of alternatives . |
| 7 | Amongst a broad section of opinion , not only vote-seeking politicians , the idea of ‘ reconstruction ’ with its blueprints for the future tapped currents of social thinking which antedated the war , but now sustained by the example of the role of the State in managing the war effort . |
| 8 | Little acts of kindness which required the body 's co-operation , such as helping with the washing-up after a good meal , demanded a prodigious amount of persuasion ; while a really big thing , like finishing Student Cross , just met with stubborn resistance . |
| 9 | Before they reached the great stone shaped like the skull of a horse which marked the path they were to take to the right , the fires were all out and the smoke from them had dispersed into the general heat-haze . |
| 10 | Its most important asset was the Glasgow weekly Forward which became the party 's official paper in 1934 . |
| 11 | High up the towers are sculptured bulls which commemorate the original animals which carried the building stones up to the top of the hill from the flat plain below . |
| 12 | However , the original stock which accompanied the Pilgrim Fathers from the Devon port of Plymouth in 1623 to provide them with milk , butter and cheese on the voyage continued to give them dairy produce ( not to mention beef and boot leather ) when they colonised the land . |
| 13 | Probably the best measure of Paul 's capabilities is that he was an ever-present member of the side which took the Palace to the 1976 FA Cup semi-finals and of the promotion team of 1976–77 until he chose to leave us for Tampa Bay Rowdies in February 1977 . |
| 14 | He became an integral feature of Palace 's FA Cup side which reached the semi-final as a 3rd Division club in 1976 , and of that which won promotion under Terry Venables the following season . |
| 15 | Ijaz , 24 on Sept 20 , was a member of the Pakistan side which won the World Cup final in March . |
| 16 | In Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , duties were charged under a proposed tariff which exceeded the tariff subsequently enacted . |
| 17 | And it was a notorious lobby briefing which alerted the world the Mr John Biffen , then Leader of the House of Commons , was on his way out . |
| 18 | An attempt is made to demonstrate that this reasoning is faulty and that the disintegration of the Byzantine state was accompanied by economic growth in the provinces which reinforced the power of the provincial aristocracy in relation to the state . |
| 19 | I was really proud of the master stroke which made the album something special . |
| 20 | The policy at which the League had arrived reflected the discontent with Parliamentary methods which dominated the ILP and the Communist Party though it was expressed in less revolutionary and more " managerial " terms . |
| 21 | This was assessed by two methods which measured the number of colonic cells in S phase of the growth cycle . |
| 22 | Certainly the resulting curriculum looks rather dull compared with the initial considerations which offered the possibility of a refreshing new view . |
| 23 | Now coalition which changed the face of party politics would stimulate fresh approaches to our problems . |
| 24 | Branson bought them at an auction which inflated the group 's price far beyond its true value . |
| 25 | The British also used the well-worn principle of divide and rule to run the country — keeping the Chinese and Indian settlers in Malaya from joining the Civil Service and administration which ran the country while nurturing the traditional ruling class to one day take over . |
| 26 | Under Edward IV and Henry VII there were , as we have seen , developments in national administration which brought the Treasurer of the Chamber and the Keeper of the Jewel House into great prominence , and it may well be that their importance overshadowed the officers of the Lord Steward 's department . |
| 27 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 28 | Furthermore , if some Branches struck and called on others to back them , that support could be ensured by picketing the workplaces of those who were to be persuaded : Scargill was strong in his insistence that miners do not cross picket lines formed by other miners , but he was eventually defeated by both the unwillingness of an increasingly large body of miners ( especially those working in Nottinghamshire , see below ) to disregard this advice in the absence of a national ballot on strike action , and the government 's preparedness to counter the pickets by mass policing and other tactics which limited the freedom of movement of perceived would-be pickets ( Fine and Millar , 1985 ) . |
| 29 | A more serious problem is the bias of the sources , which reflect the views of the ruling class rather than those of the rebels and therefore tend to paint a picture of disorder rather than to record the grievances which prompted the revolt . |
| 30 | Contracts closed with losses of £32 to £44 a tonne despite late shortcovering and technical buying which helped the market stage a partial late rally . |