Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Majority opinion in the ILP was best expressed in the resolution moved on behalf of the Rugby Branch , which argued for continued affiliation on the basis of a satisfactory revision of Parliamentary Standing Orders . |
| 2 | By the application of good marine logic — tasting the water and finding it salty , then making sure the ebb — and flood-tides were of equal strength ( both tests which argued against this body of water being a river ) they realized that they had , indeed , discovered the way through . |
| 3 | Black people are now moving back to the People 's National Movement , which ruled for 30 years before Mr Robinson came to power . |
| 4 | Intercity buses in the United States carry 375 million passengers a year across more than a billion miles — quite a legacy from the first US bus service which operated on Long Island in 1899 . |
| 5 | " Land and Liberty " became the name of an amorphous political movement which operated in various parts of the Russian Empire between 1861 and 1863 and strove to convert the radicalism engendered by the emancipation into action . |
| 6 | The coal companies that won the contracts to operate in the Dukeries were experienced in the organization of large workforces which operated in difficult conditions and were potentially prone to industrial unrest . |
| 7 | also relied on the reluctance of Viscount Simonds expressed in In re ‘ Wonderland , ’ Cleethorpes [ 1965 ] A.C. 58 , 70–71 , to construe an ambiguity in a statute in a manner which derogated from common law rights . |
| 8 | But Pond Pavarotti , which qualified in third place , is up against second favourite to win the classic , Glengar Ranger , and another top notcher , Taringar Bay . |
| 9 | Polls in most states open today at 6am local time , which translated into British time means 11am for New York and 2pm for California . |
| 10 | The critics were more enthusiastic about Dustin 's performance as the eccentric clerk than about the play , which limped through eleven performances , although it and Dustin won Obie awards — off-Broadway 's equivalent of the Tony . |
| 11 | So United States courts have declared invalid service which met the requirements of state law or of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure but which did not meet the terms of the convention and a Netherlands court has refused to grant exequatur to a Belgian judgment granted after service which complied with Belgian law but not the convention 's requirements . |
| 12 | When Laura came to stay , and swept into church in an Easter bonnet of her own devising which quivered with artificial lilac , and laughed out loud at a tiny joke in Peter 's sermon , to encourage him , one of the churchwardens wrote to the Bishop . |
| 13 | The oldest known tree was a bristlecone pine in Nevada which lived for 5100 years . |
| 14 | Their claim , which failed in two Courts of Inquiry , continued to fester . |
| 15 | First , in many cases the previous foreign owners of those companies which passed into local ownership , either private or state , were invited to continue as managers for which they received a management fee . |
| 16 | Muscle strips were maintained under a tension of 3 g , which produced near optimal contraction and experiments were commenced after a stabilisation period of two hours , which was found necessary in preliminary studies to ensure consistent muscle performance . |
| 17 | He showed that it was possible , starting with a uniform concentration of chemicals which interacted with each other , for the system to develop differences in the concentration of the chemicals , which he called morphogens , such that there would be chemical waves with peaks and troughs of concentration of the morphogens . |
| 18 | In the background to this central theme in his thought lie two major influences upon him which interacted with each other and with the impulses derived from Kant . |
| 19 | This study formed part of the 1985 GHS and informal carers were identified using two screening questions , which asked about extra family responsibilities resulting from looking after someone who was sick , elderly or handicapped in their own household ( co-resident caring ) or another household ( non-resident caring ) ( see Table 8.3 ) . |
| 20 | Members of the Pre-School playgroups Association ( PPA ) in Wales ( which became in independent association in 1987 ) are so convinced of each family 's right to choice of provision for their children that they have taken positive steps to make this possible . |
| 21 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 22 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 23 | When the Prince of Asturias put a candle in his window to start a riot against his father , he called into existence a process which led through constitutional monarchy to a democratic republic . |
| 24 | In Indonesia a large part of the argument which led on two occasions to undeclared war turned on the federal nature of the new state . |
| 25 | 29 patients who had CTs at local hospitals had to be re-examined by CT ( 25 ) or ultrasonography ( 4 ) at the National Radium Hospital , which led to major alteration of management in 4 . |
| 26 | The increased range and penetration of government activity , the tendency for specialised administrative departments to function with little political control , the growing complexity in the affairs of trade unions and other voluntary organisations which led to greater dependence upon professional experts — all these made it imperative that the general public should be better informed than ever before . |
| 27 | Which led to all sorts of strange behaviour . |
| 28 | The Psittacidae , he always claimed , was ‘ the first book of the kind drawn on stone in England of so large a size , & … one which led to all Mr Gould 's improvements . ’ |
| 29 | Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ . |
| 30 | This was one cause of the severe financial problems of the railways in later years which led to increasing state intervention even before nationalization . |