Example sentences of "[coord] which [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technically , Sami was a confidential informant ( CI ) for Michael Pavlick , the DEA 's country attaché in Paris , but he was to play a vital part in Operation Goldenrod , a project preoccupying the NARCOG task force in Nicosia when Coleman arrived there , and which was to touch off the chain reaction of events that exploded over Lockerbie 21 months later . |
| 2 | Fishing , which centuries of experience had made into a great food-supplying industry , and which was blessed by the exceptionally rich fishing grounds of the North Sea and the North Atlantic , also employed ships and provided a livelihood for thousands of men . |
| 3 | Onslow 's has quite a scoop with the keys of Ernest Hemming , lamp-trimmer — each stamped Titanic and estimated at £4,000 ; it also has a doll found floating around the wreck and which was mistaken for the body of a child , at £1,500/3,000 . |
| 4 | Secondly , the complaint charged that the government had been ‘ negligent in supervising and controlling an operation utilizing criminals , terrorists and terrorist sympathizers at various locations , including Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport , which circumvented all baggage security controls and which was utilized by a terrorist organization to place the bomb on Flight 103 ’ . |
| 5 | The first concerns a small fish Butis which occurs in the Cigenter river in Java and which was discovered by the German wildlife photographer , Dieter Plage . |
| 6 | He had begun in 1833 to work also on 10 plates for Gould 's Monograph of Toucans , a single volume of 34 plates on a single species similar to Lear 's own original Parrot publication , and which was to finish in the same year , 1835 , as the Birds of Europe . |
| 7 | But after a while Deborah and her assistant worked out a system through which everything passed and which was regulated by a strict design timetable ; this was sanctioned , but not directed , by Laura . |
| 8 | On the contrary , he concluded that the two non-Green Belt sites referred to ‘ have the potential to offset the shortfall in the land supply which identified and which was accepted by the District Council ’ . |
| 9 | Thereafter , possibly because the magazine began to appear more irregularly , Minton produced one further design , showing pages of manuscript fluttering down between buildings , and which was used for the next seven issues . |
| 10 | The product sounds exactly like a sketch that Amstrad issued at the launch of the PDA , and which was described as a possible future direction . |
| 11 | Imhotep , however , created for his king a six-stepped pyramid tomb , which rose to a height of 204 feet ( 62.2m ) and which was set within a rectangular walled enclosure containing various ritual buildings , the whole funerary complex being constructed with stone . |
| 12 | The second was the period of civil-rights and civil-liberties cases that started with Brown v Board of Education in 1954 and which was brought to an end — according to the conventional wisdom — by the appointment of a block of five ‘ conservative ’ judges by Ronald Reagan and George Bush . |
| 13 | On-farm inspection , as practised under the old calf subsidy scheme and which was suggested as a workable substitute by both farmers and auctioneers , had been dismissed as impractical . |
| 14 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 15 | the record of some of the institutional innovations which pluralists have suggested and which were created in the 1970s , do not appear to have been as successful in reducing military expenditure as pluralists have assumed they would . |
| 16 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 17 | deletes all packages which only exist as issue 00.00Z and which were reserved before the specified date |
| 18 | However , he ruled out attempts to formulate foreign policy by majority voting which , as he pointed out , would have been disastrous in the Gulf and which were reinforced by the failed attempts to mediate in Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | But the range of each species was also limited by factors that did not depend upon its habitat , and which were related to the existence of distinct geographical provinces . |
| 20 | It may not be a coincidence that the Otago Rugby Union , of which Dowling is a committee member and former chairman , actually requested that the NZRFU cancel the July-August tour of South Africa because of the drug scandals that had occurred — and which were followed by a variety of other allegations and proof of steroid use in the Republic . |
| 21 | The precise restrictions the Committee recommended , and which were imposed at the beginning of the experiment , may be summarised as follows : |
| 22 | Accepting that qualification , I regard it as plain that the effect of an intervention notice cast in the terms which were here employed and which were reflected in a accompanying press release , must be most damaging to the authorised representative with whom further business is inhibited until ( if ever ) the notice is withdrawn . |
| 23 | Accepting that qualification , I regard it as plain that the effect of an intervention notice cast in the terms which were here employed and which were reflected in an accompanying press release , must be most damaging to the authorised representative with whom further business is prohibited until ( if ever ) the notice is withdrawn . |
| 24 | SCOTVEC and centres have been engaged in an extensive development plan , the aim of which is to explore the issues which arose from the Consultative Paper of February 1987 ( ‘ SCOTVEC Higher Education Provision ’ ) and which were detailed in the Policy Paper ( ‘ Advanced Courses Development Programme : A Policy Paper — March 1988 ’ ) . |
| 25 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 26 | Species that were numerous around the boat and which were caught for a cursory examination only ’ were released again alive , ‘ the operation ’ , Gould maintained , giving ‘ not the least pain to the bird , the point of the hook merely taking hold in the horny and insensible tip of the beak . ’ |
| 27 | Walcott suggested there was a three-fold division in the House of Commons at this time : the government interest , which comprised placemen , pensioners and those who in other ways were dependent upon the Court for their position ; a large body of independent back-bench MPs ; and a middle group of professional politicians , which could be divided into seven " connections " , each tied together by family and personal relationships and electoral interests , and which were caught in a struggle for power between the " ins " and " outs " . |
| 28 | More significantly , it counterpoised the acquisition of land by the church — ‘ whereby the services which are due from such fees [ i.e. freehold ] and which were provided from the beginning for the defence of the realm are unjustifiably withdrawn and chief lords in respect of them lose their escheats ’ — with the good of the realm , for which the present ban is imposed . |
| 29 | The formal experiments and innovations on which Picasso was about to embark , and which were to result in a fully developed Cubist language were too innovative , too complex and demanding to be developed or pursued within the context of multifigure compositions . |
| 30 | Other field crops included peas and beans before the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries and , later on , numerous new introductions , some of which would have been grown earlier as garden produce but which were grown on a larger scale from the seventeenth and particularly eighteenth centuries . |