Example sentences of "which was [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This surely puts into perspective the fundamental problem of Mary Queen of Scots , which was neither a matter of sex nor of religion . |
| 2 | She picked it up and saw the name Jarrett Keach flowing across it in brown mock handwriting which was presumably a facsimile of Jarrett 's own signature . |
| 3 | The mill , which was probably a battery of four stamps , each a heavy timber balk shod with iron and lifted alternatively by cams on a revolving axle , was the cause of a dissension in 1620 between Sir Daniel Fleming 's tenants of the low lying land upon either side of the St. Martin 's beck , between Coniston village and the lake ; and Daniel Höchstetter for the mining works . |
| 4 | Which was probably a quotation from something , though Rufus did not know what and thought fastidiously that it was in bad taste , histrionic , though just like Adam . |
| 5 | Craig had fielded twice as many candidates and won fewer seats ; a result which was probably a combination of public reaction to Vanguard 's lack of clear policy and a lack of enthusiasm for some of the Vanguard candidates . |
| 6 | His gesture acknowledged the salute which was probably a compliment to his Imperial rather than his Navy rank . |
| 7 | Their married life was reasonably happy but there was one point which was increasingly a bone of contention . |
| 8 | The couple boarded the cross-Channel steamer at Dover for Ostend , while crowds returning in haste from the Continent streamed towards London , which was already a scene of departing evacuee children and sandbags mounting round government buildings . |
| 9 | Cricketers the world over , and England 's highly-respected umpires in particular , were stunned after the TCCB more than doubled Lamb 's original fine , which was already a maximum for a county committee to impose . |
| 10 | And er the rent was twenty one shillings at that time which was rather a lot for a council house so we had , had an exchange down to Street in the where the rent was about seven and six which was a big difference . |
| 11 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 12 | And once again Ric is attempting to go beyond the normal boundaries of cricket-writing : ‘ If I wanted to write a biography which was simply a record of CTB 's achievements I would have finished it some time ago . |
| 13 | But , in 1984 , 1 had one of these crash courses of methadone , 14 days , which was just a piss in the can . |
| 14 | They wanted this colossal rent which was just a recipe for bankruptcy , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 15 | Mick Ronson : ‘ After the tour , we recorded the album , ‘ Pin-Ups ’ , an album which was just a collection of songs that David really liked from the 60's period , and shortly afterwards , we went to Italy for a holiday . |
| 16 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
| 17 | It is , perhaps , the female equivalent of the alchemists ' gold , the ‘ Philosopher 's Stone ’ , the elixir which was both a product of transformation itself ( made from base matter ) and had the power of creating further gold from primitive materials . |
| 18 | By s.24 goods are stolen for the purposes of handling if any one or four conditions is fulfilled : ( a ) they have been stolen contrary to s.1 ; ( b ) they have been obtained by deception contrary to s.15 ; ( c ) they have been obtained by blackmail contrary to s.21 ; ( d ) they have been subject to an act done in a foreign country which was both a crime in that country and had it occurred in England , would have been theft , obtaining by deception , or blackmail in this country . |
| 19 | There , in 612 , he established his hermitage , which was soon a place of pilgrimage . |
| 20 | The group found themselves part of a movement called ‘ Shambling ’ , which was largely a reaction to the po-faced stance of goth that had only just entered its coffin . |
| 21 | In the view of some linguistics , which was once a branch of the humanities , has already become a branch of cognitive science ; and it may be about to become a kind of big science , requiring large research organisations and equipment resources . |
| 22 | It stands in two acres of landscaped garden which was once a paddock for horses , and has a delightful lily pond and a revolving Victorian summer house . |
| 23 | Which was almost a relief after the agony of my abused foot . |
| 24 | I found fourteen wounded men waiting the doctor 's care in the gun-room , which was almost a pool of blood . |
| 25 | As to the other matters , in my view the Secretary of State 's decision not to alter the review date having considered the petition was one which was entirely a matter for the exercise of his discretion . |
| 26 | The doubt which was originally a result of an uncommitted belief becomes a rationale for committed unbelief . |
| 27 | We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ . |
| 28 | Erm , the problem is that this should , this agenda was prepared over the Christmas period basically , and , and we started on the preparations of an economic development strategy in , in accordance with the way we 'd done it before , which was basically a strategy of what we were going to do ourselves . |
| 29 | His parents were from Dukinfield , which was then a hamlet in the parish of St. Mary , Stockport , where they were buried . |
| 30 | From Blakethwaite Dams we walked on south past the shooting box belonging to Lord Peel 's estate through a landscape which was now a desert of lead-mine spoil , called on the map by the strangely incongruous name of Merry Field . |