Example sentences of "which [vb past] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first deaf school in Britain which admitted children regardless of social background and without payment of fees opened in Bermondsey , a London suburb , in 1792 . |
| 2 | In 1989 , the federal government unveiled a three-year ‘ humanitarian aid ’ package , which provided $30,000 annually to blood-transfused HIV-infected persons who agreed to waive federal liability in the tainted-blood scandal . |
| 3 | The societies have been at loggerheads with the Government over the past 12 months after Mr Lamont introduced a series of savings offers which attracted revenue away from the societies . |
| 4 | Amid the dry mountain landscapes of the lush hinterland lie ruins of ornate Buddhist temples , ancient cities which flourished centuries ago before being deserted , and miles of characteristic tea plantations , providing the country with one of its staple industries . |
| 5 | Lizards of course became birds — some as unearthly as the Greater Bird of Paradise , and others , like the Cassowary , which reversed tactics somewhere in the past and returned to the earth again . |
| 6 | Of greater concern to Havelock Wilson and the NSFU was the appearance of rival organisations of an essentially bona fide character which enjoyed support either in a particular location or among particular classes of seamen . |
| 7 | HGSCIT , which raised £28m early in December 1992 , broadly aims to match its performance against changes in the capital value of the Extended Hoare Govett Smaller Companies Index ( excluding investment trusts ) . |
| 8 | The A Team beat 11 other sides in the league which fished sites all over the country and Angling Society secretary Peter Kelly said he was pleased with the position . |
| 9 | On the other hand , there were ‘ Romantic ’ straws in the wind : strong personalities who directed without instrument ( in Berlin , J.F. Reichardt ; for Paris , see below ) ; and the move towards an ‘ international ’ concert repertory which took responsibility away from the keyboardist ( by tradition , the composer ) and placed it with the violin leader . |
| 10 | Er and I well remember er even as early as nineteen nineteen the election which took place immediately after world war one , I remember being er sort of dragged round the streets , you know , er I think it was enjoyable , I do n't know er by my mother , er attending these street meetings , er I I I very well remember it because I had a a a new coat , a new coat for for er for this particular venture , and er the two things you know are fairly deep in my memory . |
| 11 | In addition to the forced conversions of Christian boys through the devşirme system , there were also voluntary conversions which took place gradually between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries and which help to explain the presence in modern Bosnia of a large Slav-speaking Muslim community . |
| 12 | Your forthcoming exhibition at the Tate Gallery follows a retrospective which took place there in 1970 . |
| 13 | By the ninth century the Magyars had settled around the river Dnepr , north of the Crimean Peninsula , having been expelled outwards by that movement of Asian tribes which rolled peoples westwards for a thousand years . |
| 14 | STRIKER Jim Gardiner is content to serve a two match ban after heading a couple of splendid goals yesterday which kept Crusaders still on target in their title chase . |
| 15 | Schleiermacher 's own account of Jesus relied heavily on such psychological study ; so , for that matter , did that of Liberal Theology ; and so too did those which saw Jesus only as a particularly heroic and noble representative of the human race , as did the immensely popular Life of Jesus by the Frenchman Ernst Renan ( 1823–92 ) . |
| 16 | There were subsequent waves of evacuation — during the blitz of late 1940 , via the Children 's Overseas Reception Scheme of the same year ( which sent children principally to Canada ) , and in 1944 when the V1 and V2 rockets arrived — and , of course , roughly 2 million people evacuated themselves by private arrangement in the first months of the war . |
| 17 | But in the two decades since this mindless butchery no one has been made to answer for a crime which sent shockwaves far beyond the shores of Ulster . |
| 18 | Yet this could never be done by interpreting yesterday 's sales figures , which gave information only about products already in the shops . |
| 19 | Perhaps the close proximity to No 4 Group — and Roddy Carr , the Group Commander — might have influenced " Black Jack " McEwan , the Canadian Air Vice-Marshal , since they were the only two Groups which supported Bennett entirely during those troublesome times , from the PFF 's formation to the end of the war . |
| 20 | His expression was one of amused and slightly sinister detachment , which reminded Huy strangely of the young king 's . |
| 21 | The CCC was set up in June 1990 as successor to the audiovisual training centre , Hatch End , which ran courses mainly for Third World students . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the century , heat , light and electricity were separate sciences , and so was magnetism , which had connections chiefly with navigation . |
| 23 | Brinson could cope with the work only because he was at the Foundation , where people could see him , which had concerns close to those of the CNAA , and which allowed him time to take part . |
| 24 | It was a stance which set Neneh apart with a rare stamp of honesty and courage in an industry dominated by artifice . |
| 25 | Picturesque eclecticism never found a place there , and a classical tradition emerged which set Australia apart from Canada , India , South Africa , and even to a certain extent neighbouring New Zealand . |
| 26 | At the same time it is likely that the insects developed tracheal breathing through perforations in their surface tissue which conducted oxygen directly into their bodies . |
| 27 | The unity of India was imperilled , he said , by a government which was ‘ at the mercy of the rightists and the charity of the leftists ’ and which held power only by the magnanimity of the Congress leader , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , who did not try to form a government . |