Example sentences of "which [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The academics ' letter to The Independent , for which signatures were gathered over the past fortnight , expressed dismay at the damage it said had been inflicted on universities and polytechnics since 1979 . |
| 2 | The repeal of the sedition statute failed to avert a march by 10,000 students through Taipei on March 20 , during which calls were made for the resignation of the Prime Minister , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun . |
| 3 | His original mind and interests in music , linguistics and the human voice led him to study the problems of deaf education and to invent " The New Sign Language , " in which every sign was a pantomimic version of the spoken word and in which signs were made in the same order and in the same sequel as the words of normal speech . |
| 4 | One immediate advantage of this arrangement was the ability to control the point in time at which datafiles were extracted from the database . |
| 5 | He said that the money should be used for job creation projects in 1993 with a clear indication as to which projects were funded by the levy . . |
| 6 | This is a collection of strange bedfellows , but is an interesting reflection of the high esteem in which artists were held at the time . |
| 7 | He made his call at a meeting of high-level civil servants , police and military officers on Nov. 2 , three days before a House of Representatives debate on prostitution at which demands were made for the closure of all brothels nationwide . |
| 8 | UA officials had a conference at which doubts were expressed about the possibility of the film 's being able to recoup its investment if the budget was extended . |
| 9 | They would have been less well advised to move from temporary obligation to redemption if they had had to wait for the money which the peasants owed them , but the government realized that peasants were in no position to redeem their obligations overnight and advanced most of the money to which nobles were entitled in the form of interest-bearing bonds . |
| 10 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember which days were allocated to the other rooms , but Friday , Kitchen-day , was unforgettable . |
| 12 | In later years , for example , attempts were made in 1930 , 1932 , 1936 , 1938 , 1944 , 1948 , 1952 , 1962 and since then , to establish it but the frequency with which resolutions were passed on the subject reveals the intractable nature of the problem . ) |
| 13 | Their demands were to have a radical effect on British livestock on a national basis and a massive trade developed in which cattle were reared in the more remote northern and western regions , sent in droves to fatten on grass and turnips in the Midlands , Norfolk , Essex , Hertfordshire , Middlesex and Surrey , and thence to London 's slaughterhouses in due course . |
| 14 | Part of the celebration of the feast consisted of a learned discussion in which passages were read from the Koran on which the assembled scholars gave . |
| 15 | Analysis of the retrieved papers was then carried out to determine which publications were related to the author 's thesis . |
| 16 | Analysis of the retrieved papers was then carried out to determine which publications were related to the author 's thesis . |
| 17 | Only the audiencias , burdened with written procedures in which lawyers were paid by the page , and fulfilling both the functions of an appeal court and a provincial administrative council , recalled the polysynodical system of the great councils . |
| 18 | Students were able to note which points were stressed by the lecturer and staff were able to obtain some feedback from the students . |
| 19 | The principle on which students were admitted to the Holy Cross was for testing and training , with no guarantee that they would finally be ordained . |
| 20 | The place names given to the villages show which ones were started by the Danes . |
| 21 | The frequency with which campaigns were organized in the 1340s , 1350s and 1370s and the need to provide substantial forces for the defence of English-held castles and towns encouraged the nobility to maintain permanent forces which might be augmented by the use of sub-contractors when necessary . |
| 22 | These precedents encouraged lawyers to talk of the immemorial law of the Salian Franks under which women were excluded from the succession . |
| 23 | The effect of each compound on 1 2 5 I-IFN γ binding was studied by comparing 10 tubes in which cells were incubated in the presence of each of the drugs with 10 control tubes . |