Example sentences of "which [was/were] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were followed or interspersed by a windswept Starmer-Smith standing on the touchline , microphone in hand , sporting a selection from his extensive wardrobe of scarves and neckties , and promising delights which were sure to come next week but which had unaccountably failed to materialise this week . |
| 2 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 3 | The new law retained proportional representation but gave considerable advantage to those parties which were willing to form pre-electoral coalitions ( or apparentements ) with other parties . |
| 4 | On April 28th the Community agreed to lift the ban on most of the East European countries which were prepared to give 48 hours ' warning before exporting animals and to accept quarantine periods of 14 days . |
| 5 | The final task he set himself for his Presidency , which was due to end next year , was to weed out of the Regatta calendar all the rowing courses which could be made unfair by the wind . |
| 6 | The 1991 exercise , which was due to involve 140,000 troops and to last for 10 days starting on March 11 , was the smallest to be held . |
| 7 | Construction of the £2.3 million Stonehouse bypass in Lanarkshire , which was due to start next month . |
| 8 | THE GODFATHERS have been forced to cancel their British tour , which was due to start this week , after bassist Chris Coyne sprained his wrists fighting off two muggers . |
| 9 | He took his case to an industrial tribunal which was due to resume next week . |
| 10 | It argued that there was a long history of use of such powers ; that , with the widening of the sphere of government , the use of delegated legislative powers was necessary for the efficient conduct of business in the modern state ; that the civil service was best placed to provide the expertise which was necessary to make effective use of these powers ; and that the way in which the powers were actually used in practice was such as to refute any claim of a ‘ new despotism ’ . |
| 11 | Four phases can be identified in the development of economic relations between the two regions : ( 1 ) In the 1920s tentative links were initiated by the new Soviet government , which was anxious to secure diplomatic recognition and to explore the potential for trade with Latin America as part of its attempt to break out of what was perceived as an economic blockade by the Western nations . |
| 12 | The hostages were being held by Extraditables as bargaining counters to force further concessions from the government , which was anxious to end drug-related violence in Colombia . |
| 13 | There was at least something to be said , after all , for a poor-relief system which was adaptable to suit personal need as it arose ; for all the parsimony of parish overseers , careful guardians of the ratepayers ' monies as they were , they were dealing with paupers whom they knew as people . |
| 14 | More than 100 people attended the seminar , which was mean to last one-and-half hours but continued for three ! |
| 15 | As ever , rank-and-file Party members and local trades union officials provided the core of the listening web which was supposed to embrace all citizens of Romania from cradle to grave . |
| 16 | The problem which was supposed to bring liberal theory crashing to the ground was that we do not wish to justify interfering with adult liberties on these grounds . |
| 17 | We took the route through Cheapside because the Thames was frozen from bank to bank , past the mansions of the rich , the stalls full of fripperies , the mouldering Eleanor Cross and the great Conduit which was supposed to bring fresh water into the city . |
| 18 | The bid comes after a change in the law , which was supposed to protect small breweries like Morland . |
| 19 | So , socialist as well as capitalist thinking was dominated by an " ecological voluntarism " ( Novik 1979 ) which was unable to recognise ecological limits and constraints to industrial growth and " technological progress " . |
| 20 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 21 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |