Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
| 2 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
| 3 | The Situationists ' activities within the cultural sphere constituted an attempt to create a unified range of activities which functioned as a radical critique of the conventional boundaries between specialisations embedded in the institutions , practices and agencies of modern life . |
| 4 | The Slovak National Council on June 23 elected Ivan Gasparovic as its chair and thus chair of the Council 's presidium which acted as a republican presidency ( there being no Slovak President ) . |
| 5 | In Estreito da Calheta is the Church of Nossa Senhora da Graça which began as a sixteenth-century chapel , although the present church dates from 1791 to 1793 . |
| 6 | This amounts to de facto recognition of the unofficial strike committees which emerged as a real power during last summer 's disruption in the Siberian and Ukrainian coalfields . |
| 7 | Two truck loads of clean-up equipment were sent from the Wytch Farm oil spill base at Poole and Wytch Farm later sent a helicopter which acted as a general observation platform . |
| 8 | He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro : £52.10 . |
| 9 | At one time , there was one high up on Etna which served as a convenient overnight refuge for geologists watching activity in the crater . |
| 10 | High on the list of these successes is the Development Of Excellence Scheme which evolved as a direct result of the partnership between ESCA , the TCCB and the NCA . |