Example sentences of "[noun prp] which was [verb] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The area of Newham which was excluded from the study was the north-east corner of the borough which includes Manor Park . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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the company which makes it , which was incidentally the same company which made Opran , do you remember Opran which was withdrawn from the market , it 's just |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The artist Trevor Stubley at work on a portrait of Hannah which was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | there is a model of a robot from Japan which was made in the 1960s . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But Soviet support for the neutralisation of Cambodia and Laos helped to stimulate a regional interest in neutrality in Southeast Asia which was developed by the ASEAN states in the 1970s . |
| 18 | The series of vernacular meditations based on the Franciscan Meditationes Vitae Christi are quite specifically organised in terms of the Canonical Hours as is the series in the thirteenth-century Mirror of St Edmund of Abingdon which was translated from the Latin in the fourteenth century and almost certainly known to Rolle . |
| 19 | This struggle , and the Greek unity half achieved in the course of it , must have been in the programmatist 's mind ; but the project was paid for out of spoils from the conquest of one Greek city by another , and the golden shield proudly crowning the newly finished temple was set there to celebrate an early clash in the fatal hostility of Athens and Sparta which was to culminate in the Peloponnesian war and the ruin of Greece . |
| 20 | Despite its having been declared an open province at the end of 1988 [ see p. 36934 ] , anti-Indonesian agitation continued in the former Portuguese enclave of East Timor which was annexed after the invasion of 1975 [ see p. 27535 ] . |
| 21 | Opportunities were also given at the Interior Design International Exhibition in London , where examples of the G.S.A. students ' work was shown on the Stoddard Sekers stand , including the stunning fresco print by John MacAulay which was featured on the stand ceiling . |
| 22 | There is also support from Barnoldswick which was switched to the rival county of Lancashire . |
| 23 | Across the road is the Convent of Santa Clara which was built at the end of the fifteenth century and rebuilt in the seventeenth century . |
| 24 | A. human bone from Turkey buried in alkaline soil with scrub oak vegetation , showing extensive root marks that have coalesced to give an appearance of surface corrosion ; B. sheep bone from stream ( pH 5.4 ) in Wales showing the result of long term immersion in water , with breakdown of the surface structure of the bone and formation of large scale pitting ; C. bovid bone from Tanzania which was buried in the floor of a hyaena den and subjected to trampling and decay from urine and organic acids , destructuring the surface leaving large scale pits and occasional islands of unaltered surface bone ; D. horse bone from Sphagnum bog in Dartmoor ( pH 3.5 ) showing acid etching of the bone producing pitting following and enlarging original structures in the bone . |