Example sentences of "that which [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all his careful preliminary research , Bjornsson discovered that if he calculated a formula from one half of his data he obtained a completely different equation from that which was obtained from the other half . |
| 2 | This kind of rapport is difficult to achieve and it entails an entirely different relationship between the informant and his pupil from that which was assumed by the anthropologists of seventy years ago . |
| 3 | The situation that produced it was comparable to that which was to lead to a similar agreement between the returning Dutch and those who had proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia : in both cases neither side was prepared , there and then , for all-out war when the last British forces left Indonesia or when the Chinese armies in Tonkin were finally persuaded to leave . |
| 4 | Jackson Pollock was driven by a despair which was partly his and partly that of the culture which nourished him , to refuse this act of faith : to insist , with all his brilliance as a painter , that there was nothing behind , that there was only that which was done to the canvas on the side facing us . |
| 5 | The size of the manor was somewhat reduced , the bishop not receiving all that which was given in the original Charter . |
| 6 | This concern displays a deeper understanding of the contradictions in science and technology than that which was articulated by the anti-science movement of the 1970s whose antecedents lay in the anti-culture movement of the 1960s . |
| 7 | and in essence it 's been our , our prior aim to keep to that which was agreed by the council back in nineteen eighty six . |
| 8 | For example : The library furniture in 1981 was that which was provided on the opening of the school . |
| 9 | Go into our primary schools and superficially there are great differences between the environment which we provide now and that which was provided in the 1890s . |