Example sentences of "[noun prp] which [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The club was to nearly kill the magazine as its losses accumulated , but it also provided a link with the United States which was to snap as the magazine moved towards Little Englandism , or Little Londonism . |
| 2 | When the Soviet Union intervened militarily in Afghanistan the British Foreign Secretary , Lord Carrington , rapidly proposed a plan for Afghanistan which was approved by the Council of Ministers of the EEC and adopted as a joint EEC declaration on 15 January 1980 . |
| 3 | Among the many places to visit are : the 12th-century abbeys of Jedburgh and Melrose ; Abbotsford House , the stately home of Sir Walter Scott which was financed by the Waverley novels ; and the 16th-century Thirlestone Castle , home to a fine collection of china , furniture and paintings and the Borders Country Life Museum . |
| 4 | All Blacks Ian Jones and Pat Lam — the latter also having represented Western Samoa — were graduates from the last tour when the team lost to South Under-21s in a cracking contest at Poynder Park , yet defeated Scotland Under-21s — including Craig Chalmers and Tony Stanger — 25-21 in a match at Murrayfield which was played as a curtain-raiser to the Scotland v Australia international . |
| 5 | A traditionally holy part of Dakota which was seized by the American government , stripped of its mineral wealth and never returned to its rightful owners , the hills house a world-famous testament to white power . |
| 6 | When a Masai killed a European farmer in the Sanya corridor — from which the Masai had been evicted — in 1955 , it was the shame and distress of all the other Masai which were emphasized by the administration . |
| 7 | Rye is officially what is called an ‘ Ancient Town ’ attached to the Cinque Ports , those small ports along the coasts of Kent and East Sussex which were fortified against the French ; so necessary were they to the Crown that , in 1278 , they were given legal privileges : exemption from taxes , the right to rule themselves and appoint their own judges . |
| 8 | The area of Newham which was excluded from the study was the north-east corner of the borough which includes Manor Park . |
| 9 | The exhibition ends with the remnants of the statue of Stalin which was destroyed on the night of October 23 , 1956 , to show the collapse of a main feature of that sad era — that of the cult of personality . ’ |
| 10 | The apparent paucity of copper may result from the emplacement of relatively anhydrous granites into tectonised and anhydrous metasediments , especially in the Dalradian and Moinian sediments of Scotland which were metamorphosed during the Ordovician Grampian orogeny and the later Caledonian event . |
| 11 | I have in front of me a copy of the data sheet produced by the company which makes it , which was incidentally the same company which made Opran , do you remember Opran which was withdrawn from the market , it 's just |
| 12 | Reducing the emphasis on ‘ selling him up ’ and making it more possible for creditors ' claims to be met out of a debtor 's future income was one of the main objectives of the Insolvency Law Review Committee chaired by Sir Kenneth Cork which was appointed by the Government in 1977 and reported in 1982 . |
| 13 | The problem is intensified by the undoubted presence in many villas of domestic shrines and nymphaea , like the one at Lullingston which was converted into a Christian house-chapel . |
| 14 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 15 | And there was still the absurd question of protocol involved in who should occupy the Presidential Palace in Saigon which was turning into a long-running farce and one that was unlikely to be resolved in Bao Dai 's favour as long as de Lattre was High Commissioner . |
| 16 | Flo which was bought for a tenth of the price of which dino was sold has scored 5 goals in 6–7 matches and dino ( saurus ? ) has notched one — hey — even i could have scored on that one : - ) ; - ) |
| 17 | A growing disenchantment with this policy , and with other developments at the museum , including the Turner Prize , reached a climax in an unsigned profile of director Nicholas Serota which was published in The Independent on 28 November 1992 . |
| 18 | The fact that the charge is one of capital murder does not exclude that possibility : Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1935 ] A.C. 462 , 482–483 , per Viscount Sankey L.C. , a decision of the House of Lords which was noted in the judgment of this Board in Anderson v. The Queen [ 1972 ] A.C. 100 , where both the Court of Appeal in Jamaica and the Board applied the proviso in a capital murder case ( see also People v. Rosario , 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 , in which the proviso was applied ) . |
| 19 | The Duke and Duchess of Kent were represented by Captain the Honourable Christopher Knollys at the Memorial Service for Marjorie , Countess of Brecknock which was held in the Guards Chapel , today . |
| 20 | After the first loch the track rises sharply over the shoulder of the Carn Bad nah-Achlaise before running along the side of Loch Mhic'ille Riabhaich which was named after a local 16th century outlaw . |
| 21 | FRCN Kaduna 's Hausa current affairs programme Alkawari Kayane had reports directly from its own correspondent in Minna which were carried in the FRCN programme being relayed there by Radio Niger . |
| 22 | The artist Trevor Stubley at work on a portrait of Hannah which was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery |
| 23 | Cooks organized tours for servicemen and women on leave included a guided tour of the casbah in Algiers which was accompanied by an armed American guard . |
| 24 | In 1984 he took over the occupancy of 84 acres of land near Gosforth in Tyne and Wear which was owned by the Ashdale Land and Property Company . |
| 25 | there is a model of a robot from Japan which was made in the 1960s . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union acquired and developed a structure of ground and air installations in Eastern Europe which were integrated in the Warsaw Pact . |
| 27 | The reason was that there were certain areas of Europe which were protected by the forces of only one NATO nation , and consequently these were particularly vulnerable to aggression . |
| 28 | From here there is a good view of the fortress of Nossa Senhora da Conceição which was built in the seventeenth century on the Loo Rock to protect ships in the harbour . |
| 29 | Finally , the £500 judges ' discretionary prize was divided between WaterAid which was commended for a coordinating cover and back-page tear off donation slip and telephone counsellors The Samaritans whose report was praised for spot colouring vital statistics and a single telephone conversation which ran through the right-hand pages of the report , thereby encouraging readers to finish it . |
| 30 | While the dealer refused to reveal the mosaics ' whereabouts , he succeeded in obtaining four mosaic sections from Mr Dikmen which were deposited in a Frankfurt warehouse . |