Example sentences of "which had [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Smith , said the latest problems affecting the industry were similar to those hitting the UK coal industry , which had suffered from cheap imports from eastern Europe . |
| 2 | A number of important developments in the so-called Iraqi " supergun " affair , details of which had emerged in early April [ see pp. 37390-91 ] , came to light in late April and May . |
| 3 | The report represents a victory for the Confederation of British Industry and a lobby led by Emma Nicholson , Tory MP for Devon West and Torridge , which had campaigned for tough new laws . |
| 4 | The policy change , which the 600-member council endorsed , was nonetheless a victory for the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , a broad alliance which had campaigned for urgent constitutional changes on the grounds that the referendum was unnecessary . |
| 5 | On June 11 Croatia joined the World Health Organization as its 178th member ; other countries which had acceded in recent weeks [ see p. 38938 for position as of May 4 ] were Georgia , Slovenia and Uzbekistan . |
| 6 | Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Alatas went on a foreign diplomatic offensive in February , holding talks with officials in the United Kingdom , France , the Netherlands , Belgium , Switzerland , the USA , Canada ( which had cut off new aid in the wake of the massacre ) and Japan . |
| 7 | This point had become confused and lost in the over-socialized conception of man which had developed in modern sociology . |
| 8 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 9 | On the other hand , there is the ideological and institutional inheritance of feudalism : the assemblies of privileged estates , usually aristocracy , clergy , and commons , which had developed within feudal societies and were intended to be roughly representative of wider social constituencies or groupings . |
| 10 | Environmental organizations led by Greenpeace , the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Australian Conservation Foundation had spearheaded the campaign , which had met with strong support from the Australian and French governments . |
| 11 | This would effectively replace the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities ( Cramra — see p. 36062 ) , which had met with widespread opposition , and which Japan alone now supported . |
| 12 | Many countries which had broken off diplomatic relations with Iran sent messages of condolence and aid consignments , including the United Kingdom ( whose first relief aircraft flew in on June 23 ) , Saudi Arabia and even Iraq . |
| 13 | A communiqué issued after the meeting said that delegates had declared Iraq to be a " democratic federal country " , and had agreed on a federal structure based on wilayats or provinces , reportedly as a gesture to Islamic parties which had insisted on Arab-Islamic nomenclature . |
| 14 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 15 | Deleted from the guidelines were certain provisions which had appeared in previous drafts but which had been strongly criticized by media executives as amounting to censorship ; these would have prohibited reporters from approaching military officials unannounced , and banned dissemination of pictures showing troops in agony or severe shock . |
| 16 | This may have been a Soviet response to the American nuclear war base facilities under construction at Diego Garcia ( and to a lesser extent to those at the Kagnew Communications Station near Asmara in Ethiopia which had declined in strategic significance and were slowly being wound down ) . |
| 17 | Many of those who talked and wrote about the concept pined for the ideal situation which had existed in ancient Greece where |
| 18 | Were , therefore , the deputies of the Cortes to limit themselves to the study of the ‘ means and methods of expelling the French army ’ , or was their sacred task to endow Spain with a constitution that would limit the despotism which had ended in French invasion ? |
| 19 | This habit had caused severe bowel difficulties which had culminated in repeated manual extractions of a large bolus of clogged material in her rectum . |
| 20 | The two most influential men in Bruges , the castellan and the dean of St Donatian 's , ex officio chancellor of Flanders , were both members of a powerful new family , the Erembalds , which had risen from servile origins to prominence by the route of comital administrative service . |
| 21 | The idea of town planning was something that presented itself as an answer to a problem or group of problems which had arisen in contemporary urban life ’ ( Ashworth , 1954 ) . |
| 22 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 23 | Added sugar was the prime cause and levels of tooth decay , which had fallen from bad to mediocre , could not fall further until people , and especially children , cut back more on sugar , he said . |
| 24 | It was machinery which had led to increased efficiency and output . |
| 25 | The US , by far the world 's wealthiest and most powerful state , also hoped for a stable , expanding world economy where freer trade would prevent a return to the depression and unemployment which had led to militant nationalism in the 1930s . |
| 26 | These protests were added to a series of crippling miners ' strikes which had begun in early March . |
| 27 | The wave of anti-government protests which had begun in late April when riot police beat a student protester to death , continued into June , but was met with a tougher response by the authorities following an incident on June 3 when the Prime Minister was assaulted by student dissidents . |
| 28 | The first consignment of 32 Mirage jets from Australia arrived in Pakistan on Nov.29 , 1990 , following negotiations which had begun in late 1988 . |
| 29 | On July 4 the South Korean Foreign Affairs Minister Lee Sang Ock completed an official visit to Russia , the Ukraine and Kazakhstan which had begun in late June . |
| 30 | The most recent bout of full-scale fighting between the LTTE and the armed forces , which had begun in northern and eastern Sri Lanka in June 1990 , had left between 3,000 and 5,000 people dead [ see pp. 37529-30 ; 37611 ; 37654 ; 37711 ; 37856 ] . |