Example sentences of "which came [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | They need regular injections of Factor 8 , some of which came into this country infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 4 | Like the beta-blocking drugs which came into clinical use later , their effects were not predicted but were undoubtedly useful . |
| 5 | Yet the spirit of excitement which came through each TV showing of the battles between happi-coated teams was an inspiration that called out for adoption . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The ES servers double the capacity of the previous top-end MIServer which came with 12 CPUs . |
| 11 | Although pre-occupied with planning the invasion of the continent of Europe ( Operation Overlord ) which came on 6 June 1944 , Winston Churchill devoted his attention to a matter which must have seemed far removed from the great events by which he was surrounded . |
| 12 | Smith was in fine bludgeoning form , but Gower showed restraint , collecting two twos and 25 singles in his 29 , which came off 52 deliveries . |
| 13 | The agreement , which came after five hours of talks , established ceilings for NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries which restricted each side to 20,000 tanks , 20,000 artillery pieces and 30,000 fighting vehicles . |
| 14 | It was Birmingham 's first win in 8 matches ; a scrappy game won by a scrappy goal , which came after 29 minutes . |
| 15 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |
| 16 | Its berries glistened red under the burnish of the breeze , which came in uneasy gusts from the south and east . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | C. All these factories were using wool , most of which came from other parts of Britain . |
| 19 | While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career . |
| 20 | The lorry which came from this warehouse in Bletchley was found in North London later this morning still carrying its load of forty thousand pounds worth of clothes although the doors are damaged . |
| 21 | An interesting architectural style evolved here , generally called Asturian , which came from Visigothic designs but also embodied Carolingian features of construction . |
| 22 | The main feature of this system was the relatively small and , on trend , declining proportion of public revenue which came from direct taxation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Product sales generated £31.1m up from £30.1m in 1991 , some 58% of which came from overseas subsidiaries . |
| 25 | 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 . |