Example sentences of "which was [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was probably caused by the roll of linoleum , one end of which was tied to the carrier behind her saddle , the other to the handlebar . |
| 2 | The farm buildings formed three sides of a square in the south-eastern corner of the property , which was bounded to the right by a shaded area . |
| 3 | Eric Jones-Evans began donating material to the Theatre Collection in 1980 and the remainder , including his substantial library , formed just a part of his considerable estate , the bulk of which was bequeathed to the Collection upon his death in 1989 . |
| 4 | Around 1,150 jobs would be lost in the UK , mainly at Dagenham , by the end of the year according to the document , which was leaked to the Press Association . |
| 5 | Some of the UK government 's key environmental policies are likely to be undermined by a lack of resources , according to an internal Environment Department report which was leaked to the press . |
| 6 | The document , which was leaked to The Ecologist magazine , also states that the proportion of failures has multiplied by two and a half times over the last 10 years . |
| 7 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 8 | In a taped interview which was played to the jury , Paul said : ‘ I just thought it was like a little tap on the head and that he would be all right . |
| 9 | The expansion scheme which was announced to the press in June is already well underway . |
| 10 | The parish registers begin in 1546 and contain among the memoranda reference to a large gold ring with the inscription ‘ Obey and Rule ’ which was given to the church by a Mrs Francis Rokeby on 26th August 1711 for the use , of any who came to the church to be married and were ‘ unprovided with a ring ’ . |
| 11 | This was the case notwithstanding the fact that all the information which was given to the expert had in fact been previously published . |
| 12 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |
| 13 | Near the minster there is the Ashes playing fields which was given to the town by a local benefactor , Charles Briggs . |
| 14 | Jackson Pollock was driven by a despair which was partly his and partly that of the culture which nourished him , to refuse this act of faith : to insist , with all his brilliance as a painter , that there was nothing behind , that there was only that which was done to the canvas on the side facing us . |
| 15 | As regards the philosophical concept of time , according to Needham , the Mohist school ( followers of the philosopher Mo Ti in the fifth century BC ) was inclined to temporal atomicity , although the hypothesis of material atomism never played any significant role in Chinese thought , which was wedded to the idea of the continuum . |
| 16 | When the unsuspecting man was safely ensconced in a deep slumber , Jarman would pull two bolts from the floor below , and the bed , which was screwed to the floor , would tip up to a 45° angle , sliding the poor wayfarer into a great vat of boiling fat strategically placed below . |
| 17 | He advanced to the Seine , slipped across it at Poissy and , with Philip 's army hard on his heels , he crossed the Somme at Blanche-Taque by a ford which was revealed to the king in the nick of time , possibly by a prisoner to whom Edward offered enough money to buy the vital information . |
| 18 | I remember that when I had my first Meccano set , Dad made a simple hoist which was clamped to the table , a pulley was fixed to a hook above the mirror and my Teddy Bear used to go on trips up to the ceiling . |
| 19 | When he built a bungalow for himself at Kinmel Bay in 1971 it was the start of a house-building career which was to lead to the receiving of important awards at national ceremonies in top London hotels . |
| 20 | These were a new form of packaging involving a collapsible polyester tube , coated to withstand carbonation , which was presented to the customer in a cardboard sleeve . |
| 21 | The budget estimate derived from the market research for one year 's production and sales , which was presented to the Board by the Marketing Managing , is as follows : |
| 22 | The Commission was only beginning to get into its stride in 1970 when a new government was returned which was pledged to the abolition of the commission on the grounds that it ‘ had no place in a free society ’ . |
| 23 | He gripped the side of a curved triangular plate which was fitted to the wall , and began to manoeuvre himself further into the shaft . |
| 24 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 25 | The traditional " upper-bourgeois literary education " which was addressed to the scholar gentleman christian , has , Hough declares , become irrelevant to the contemporary world . |
| 26 | Er we also have one other item of correspondence recorded on the list , er which was addressed to The Lord Mayor of Southwell , England , |
| 27 | Meanwhile Home with great determination had been to the hospital in London and obtained Macmillan 's written resignation , which was read to the Conference on Thursday afternoon : ‘ I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the party about its future leadership . ’ |
| 28 | He explained the detailed attention which was paid to the background of a child appearing before the Panel and pointed out that it was often revealed that the children concerned came from large families , which were poor and in which there was an absence of adult male guidance . |
| 29 | It was this policy , in popular and amended form , which was offered to the electorate in early 1929 as ‘ We Can Conquer Unemployment ’ . |
| 30 | While more than 1,000 university and polytechnic staff signed the letter , which was released to the press last Friday , others have condemned it as unrepresentative . |