Example sentences of "which was [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of entering the water , he landed straddled on an anchor which was racked at the stern . |
| 2 | Across the road is the Convent of Santa Clara which was built at the end of the fifteenth century and rebuilt in the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | By order dated 10 March 1989 , which was received at the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 17 July 1989 , the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , referred to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling under article 177 of the E.E.C . |
| 4 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 5 | The money will go to the Motor Neurone Disease Association , which was represented at the event by executive committee member Mike Hawley , himself a sufferer from the fatal muscle-wasting disease and a former head postmaster in Southend . |
| 6 | The pub has a bar commemorating No 10 Squadron , which was based at the aerodrome . |
| 7 | The underside of the handle is slotted to receive a knife blade which was riveted at the dolphin 's tail . |
| 8 | This process can be traced back until we arrive at a single cell which was formed at the moment of conception by the fusion of two parental germ cells , i.e. one egg and one sperm cell . |
| 9 | On the other hand , Peter was responsible for the introduction of a punitive practice which was to remain at the centre of the tsarist criminal code and of the Siberian penal system until well into the twentieth century . |
| 10 | Finally , Mario Segre in one of the most brilliant of his early studies argued that many of the Italian scenes with Gauls — such as the frieze of Civita Alba in Picenum , which was discovered at the end of the last century — may represent a Celtic attack on the temple of Apollo and Artemis at Didyma near Miletus , which was sacked in 277/6 B.C. ( Studi Etruschi 8 ( 1934 ) , 137–42 ) . |
| 11 | Such pictures she always found calming to her nerves and she had no need of the large net which was hung at the top of the staircase , to catch those distracted adolescents who attempted suicide in the converted country house where she received her education . |
| 12 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
| 13 | Which was how the Khan of the Merkuts — along with his escort , his retinue , and the principal members of his family — came to be crossing a bridge which was erected at the height of the second floor across several of the principal buildings in the better part of the merchants ' quarter of Kinsai . |
| 14 | It was one of those very profound observations which was misunderstood at the time but is now widely accepted by Roman Catholic scholars among others . |
| 15 | There was also " … a considerable quantity of small ore which was got at the beginning of the work and can not be weighed until stamped or broken by an Engine and washed for which purpose they are going to erect one to go be water with all speed and were disstressed for some sycamore wood for the water wheel . " |
| 16 | From the manse the police took away the minister 's cloak , a long black cloak with a hood that he used for funerals , Remembrance Day services , and other outdoor events associated with his ministry ; they removed a broken cross , waiting in a cupboard for repair ; but they did not take the broken-off piece of that cross which was lying at the bottom of the same cupboard . |
| 17 | This book has had to be reprinted as the original which was published at the end of November 1991 was withdrawn owing to an injunction issued by Sheik Zayed bin Sultan at Nahayan the Ruler of Abu Dhabi . |
| 18 | Encouraged by US officials , on his return to Moscow he worked with Gorbachev 's economic adviser Yevgeny Primakov to draft an open letter to the G-7 leaders which was published at the end of May , proposing the co-ordination of a plan of Soviet economic reform with a G-7 programme of economic assistance . |
| 19 | Among the new government 's earliest measures was the introduction in April 1991 of the Sharia bill , which was aimed at the creation of an " Islamic welfare state " , passed in May by the National Assembly . |
| 20 | He stressed throughout the difference between the coal strike , which was industrial and could be negotiated , and the General Strike , which was aimed at the constitution and must be defeated unconditionally . |
| 21 | In this chapter , we resume our discussion of translation difficulties and strategies at the level of text by looking at cohesion , the second feature of text organization which was mentioned at the end of Chapter 4 . |
| 22 | The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation . |
| 23 | In fact there is some allophonic evidence that supports the two-phoneme analysis : we find this in the occurrence of glottalisation ( which was described at the end of Chapter 6 ) . |
| 24 | If the actual money stock in t is accurately predicted by agents at the end of period t - 1 ( in symbols ) , the actual price level in t will equal the price level which was expected at the end of t - 1 since expectations regarding the future behaviour of the money stock have been accurately generated by the efficient use of the information available in . |
| 25 | As such , his principal task was to secure the concordat , which was signed at the end of August 1953 . |
| 26 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 27 | Included is WACC 's statement on Communication and Community , and the Lima Declaration on Communication which was issued at the end of a major consultation organised by WACC and the Peruvian-based Latin American Institute . |
| 28 | Nor are the six surviving fragments of Peri 's complete setting of Daf ne which was produced at the Palazzo Corsi during the Carnival of 1597 . |
| 29 | The model was incorporated into an Excel spreadsheet which was installed at the drill site in June . |
| 30 | ( A frog horn is a gas-powered small-craft warning which was used at the melin to get Nigel down from the millpond to the telephone . |