Example sentences of "[noun prp] which were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The Soviet Union acquired and developed a structure of ground and air installations in Eastern Europe which were integrated in the Warsaw Pact .
6 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 .
7 It was confined to a small border strip of 20,000 square miles and 1,500,000 inhabitants , encompassing Roslavl' and Smolensk , but excluding important districts centred on Vitebsk , Gomel , and Mogilev which were incorporated into the RSFSR .
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