Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [Wh det] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1973 experiments were reported which described the isolation of portions of tissue containing something which combined specifically with morphine and other potent analgesics . |
| 2 | From the 1820s huge steam engines were built which did the work much more effectively . |
| 3 | Frequently , strategies were adopted which camouflaged the intractability of this particular problem . |
| 4 | When the committee inspected the work in July 1890 some further changes were made which increased the cost to £657 in addition to the cost of the site . |
| 5 | So quite early on some very crucial decisions were made which tilted the balance very much towards the national government . |
| 6 | Other instruments were invented which recorded the actions of the heart and the flow in the vessels , and it became possible to investigate how the whole system was regulated throughout all the different activities of life . |
| 7 | It was under this imprint that the light romantic novels were issued which constituted the staple fare of Lane 's circulating libraries . |
| 8 | But consider one aspect : fifteen design variables were identified which affected the behaviour of residents , especially children and users of blocks of flats . |
| 9 | That 's not a criticism of the project as such , it 's just that the sort of service that was intended which included the conversion of a building , did not check out that a building was available — there was no building . |
| 10 | Here in the 1844 the Wellington Monument was erected which tells the story of the acorns . |
| 11 | The aim of this part of the evaluation was to see what effects the performance of the front-end had on LA . |
| 12 | From knowing the actual word that should have been written at a particular position in the input , a simple NAWK program was written which loaded the target word for each position into an associative array , then went through the Q100 lattice and printed out the recognition score assigned to each target word . |
| 13 | For this procedure a diagram was used which shows the relation between vitrinite reflectance and relative depth ( Fig. 2 ) and which is based on measurements of vitrinite reflectance in 45 deep boreholes of western Germany . |
| 14 | A problem-solving approach was employed which included the use of contracts to enable the couple to reciprocate efforts at improving their relationship . |
| 15 | It should also be remembered that , until legislation was introduced which prohibited the use of most lead fishing weights , the number of swans dying from lead poisoning had reached critical proportions . |
| 16 | Even before the war ended an Education Act was passed which recognized the case for state support for free education up to the age of fourteen . |
| 17 | An emergency resolution was passed which urged the government to target criminal justice resources into preventative programmes rather than just extending custody for young offenders . |
| 18 | A new disease was identified which had the symptoms of workplace disunity , low productivity , poor quality products . |
| 19 | Eventually a compound was identified which met the specification . |
| 20 | An alternative method was devised which includes the advantages of the 26-way tree method , but reduces memory considerably ( see figure 3.9 ) . |
| 21 | On 26 January 1931 the so-called ‘ Hunger Law ’ was published which gave the monopoly on imported flour to a small group of mill-owners . |