Example sentences of "which was [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest part of the castle is a gate-house tower , which was built in the earlier 15th century and absorbed into a rectangular three-storeyed tower house in the late 15th or early 16th century . |
| 2 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 3 | Fishing , which centuries of experience had made into a great food-supplying industry , and which was blessed by the exceptionally rich fishing grounds of the North Sea and the North Atlantic , also employed ships and provided a livelihood for thousands of men . |
| 4 | The Tramroad Company was acquired by Blackpool under the terms of the Blackpool Improvement Act of 1919 , which was opposed by the then — Fleetwood U.D.C. Fleetwood resented Blackpool 's ownership of the track within its area , and succeeded in winning the right to purchase the tramway after twenty-one years . |
| 5 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 6 | An alternative proposal , support for which was centred around the strongly " pro-whaling " members — Norway , Iceland and Japan — that commercial whaling be allowed to resume immediately on all stocks which had recovered to 30 per cent of estimated pre-hunting levels , was rejected by 19 votes to seven . |
| 7 | The sharp nose and thin lips gave his angular face a harshness which was softened by the neatly trimmed black moustache he had worn since his early twenties . |