Example sentences of "which [pron] was [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blaise Cendrars witnessed a fight in which she was getting the better of Modigliani . |
| 2 | Our eyes were glued to the large plate into which she was placing the cooked ones . |
| 3 | In late 1916 Nina Boyle went to Macedonia and Serbia to do war-relief work , for which she was awarded the Samaritan medal and the Allied medal . |
| 4 | The first of these , Sea Change , was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1948 and in an interview the author explained the way in which he was using the adventure-story genre : |
| 5 | He was taken ill as he was about to be presented to the President of Galicia before a dinner for which he was cooking the main course . |
| 6 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 7 | While Holroyd Smith and Cornelius Quin took care of the electrical side of operations , John Lancaster managed the day-to-day running of the tramway , for which he was paid the princely sum of £1–15 shillings a week . |
| 8 | In an early draft of the play upon which he was working the elderly public man is compared to a silkworm who has chewed the bitter leaves of the mulberry all his life . |
| 9 | Comprising some seventy paintings and forty works on paper , it has been selected by Christopher Green , Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and author of Cubism and Its Enemies , for which he was awarded the prestigious Mitchell Prize for Twentieth-Century Art in 1987 . |
| 10 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |
| 11 | The distribution has been examined principally within the context of wind blown dune sands ( Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Christiansen , 1984 ) for which it was claimed the hyperbolic function encompassed the extreme values of the size distribution tails better than the log-normal plot . |
| 12 | The lone watchman might , just possibly , be wandering around with an oil-can in hand but more probably was immersed in one of the lurid magazines with which what was called the engine-room library was so liberally stocked . |