Example sentences of "[Wh det] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the observation was not consciously made , Leonard recognised the great similarities which were taking place between music and poetry ( and in art and sculpture , too ) , which went under the name of neo-classicism in the former and modernism in the latter . |
| 2 | The Court , and by extension Paris , would become the focus of all Europe , and even for the whole civilized world , for the Emperor , conscious of the huge changes in the speed and ease of travel which were taking place , foresaw an influx of visitors not just from the Old World but also from the New . |
| 3 | The very changes which were taking place in the physical environment appear to have facilitated the transition to a newer rhythm of urban life . |
| 4 | The changes , which were taking place in the economy and society during the period of formative influence on the functionalist style , provide us with a further dimension to consider . |
| 5 | States of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , in the Soviet view , were those that were carrying out major social transformations such as the nationalisation of foreign monopolies , redistribution of land and industrialisation , and which were taking steps to further public education and to reduce poverty and unemployment . |
| 6 | Jehana moved silently to her side , likewise apparently unperturbed by the events which were taking place , and they watched Jotan as he stepped out onto the wooden staging . |
| 7 | Lothar 's biographer in the Gesta makes the point that following Celestine 's death he did not immediately join the cardinals assembled in the Septizonium , but attended first the exequies , or funeral rites , for the dead pope , which were taking place in the Lateran basilica . |
| 8 | The American archives suggest that even in 1954 the British would have been somewhat reassured had they been able to eavesdrop on some of the discussions which were taking place in Washington . |
| 9 | or you 've got ta try and stop it , or you 've got ta get in there and and sort of organize it , take it on your shoulders , and I think this , this is a recognition that erm changes were taking place which were taking peasants beyond the straight moderate programme . |
| 10 | This enlarged LFA , the areas included in which were determined in close consultation with farmers ' representatives , now takes in much land amenable for agricultural development and may increase the proportion of the UK uplands experiencing the nature conservation/agriculture conflict . |
| 11 | Tenders were sought for a prototype body , 50 feet long and 8 feet wide , clearances for which were tested with the remaining Coronations . |
| 12 | Catalase and superoxide dismutase , which were tested at concentrations of up to 3000 U/ml , did not inhibit nitroblue tetrazolium reduction . |
| 13 | In the 1930s , the Supreme Court began to widen its interpretation of free speech to include writings and films of little or no artistic merit , provided they did not include ‘ licentious ’ speech , the forms of which were listed in 1942 as libel , slander , insulting or ‘ fighting ’ words , and obscenity , all of which were excluded from First Amendment protection . |
| 14 | The categories of handicap which were listed as requiring special provision were : blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially deaf , delicate/diabetic , educationally subnormal , epileptic , maladjusted , physically handicapped and children with special defects . |
| 15 | The great sun god had many forms and names , seventy-four of which were listed in the Litany of Re , a text which was inscribed in the entrances of royal tombs of the New Kingdom . |
| 16 | Water for fulling — cleansing and thickening the cloth — and in due course for driving the industrial mills which were to replace the looms of individual home-based workers was also an important factor . |
| 17 | Some 100,000 businesses , mainly in the North and the Midlands , which were expecting their rate bills to fall by at least 50 per cent , will see no significant change , said Mr Banham . |
| 18 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 19 | All these were metal aircraft , built of aluminium sheet to which were riveted L-shaped aluminium stringers . |
| 20 | There were considerable methodological difficulties , not all of which were overcome . |
| 21 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 22 | Even in areas outside this great span — in Australia for example , the South Pacific or Amerindia — the main detailed knowledge that we have of these cultures is — almost by definition — in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write . |
| 23 | He proposed independent solutions to the current problems of generation and becoming , individuation , universals , the nature of the soul , and immaterial intelligences , which were influenced but not dominated by Grosseteste 's ideas . |
| 24 | Firstly , the analysis helped to distinguish those requirements of the task which were influenced by the specific nature of the problem from the more general requirement of searching a large problem space . |
| 25 | The main trend was for greater powers for the republics , which were to join the new union on a voluntary basis , choosing the level of involvement which they wanted to have . |
| 26 | The foregoing is fully applicable to the motivation of all those individuals who influenced the events which were creating the religious climate and who , unbeknown to themselves were contributing to the Created God . |
| 27 | Still , the limping aircraft , which were assumed to be carrying arms , were not challenged . |
| 28 | Intensive surface geophysical surveys comprising galvanic resistivity , electromagnetic ( including TEM ) , magnetic and radiometric measurements were made at four sites in where strong photolineaments , which were assumed to indicate regional-scale faulting , have been recognised . |
| 29 | When scoring only the strongly reactive nuclei in the PCNA assay , which were assumed to represent the S phase cells , the individual proliferation indices between the two methods showed a Spearman correlation coefficient of r s =0.6 ( p=0.011 ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 30 | was designed to replace the former system of emergency grants for special needs for such items as cookers and clothing , which were dispensed under a variety of rules . |