Example sentences of "which [was/were] [adv] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He did so partly by relying on the unquestioned fact that death and violence were an integral element in many books which were already on the way to becoming children 's classics ; from a list compiled rather later in the century one might cite Grimm 's Fairy Tales , Hans Andersen 's and the expurgated Arabian Nights .
2 I felt ill , but Friday wanted to eat the pieces of men 's bodies which were still on the ground .
3 I read oil engineering which was primarily on the production side and out of a course of thirteen , I was the only one who was interested in the chemical side of it — the refining side .
4 In more than two years of living with one band of Semai , my wife and I witnessed only two instances of large-scale co-operative action , one of which I had to organize myself to mobilize a labour force to repair a dangerously deteriorated suspension bridge which nearly everyone in the band used every day , and which was literally on the verge of collapse .
5 And infer that you also should be ‘ absolutely happy ’ about a joint which was actually on the hoof when Maggie Thatcher was in power and the Beastie Boys were in the charts .
6 I studied the map which was still on the screen .
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