Example sentences of "which was [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wallingfen court in the Vale of York set an upper limit for animals on the common in 1636 which was way above the actual carrying capacity of the land . |
| 2 | If you have time , it is worth climbing on to the observation terrace on the site of the tiny Chapel of Holy Mary of Einsiedel which was part of the Theatine Monastery below . |
| 3 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 4 | When a colony was launched as the property of a single owner he , or one of his family , might go out to oversee the administration but he was unlikely to cut his links with England , if only because it was important to be able to maintain the court favour which was part of the political strength needed by anyone who wanted to run a colony on his own . |
| 5 | They had n't much — just the handholds of the companion , the locker hinges , and the pump-handle of the heads , which was part of the original equipment and was engraved with the date : 1905 . |
| 6 | The author was born in Kronstadt , part of the ethnic German enclave in Transylvania — a region which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the century but which had been handed over to Romania after World War I. Faced by the prospect of conscription into the Romanian army in World War II , the author volunteered for the Waffen-SS . |
| 7 | It also refused to accept his nomination of Artur Balasz as the new Agricultural Minister in place of Czeslaw Janicki , a member of the Polish Peasant 's Party ( ZSL ) which was part of the ruling coalition , who had resigned on July 5 , claiming that the government had neglected farm policy [ see below ] . |
| 8 | This link accounted for Osprey 's directors ' interest in Crane Holdings which was part of the same network . |
| 9 | His advocacy is not surprising : he never abandoned the interventionism which was part of the conventional wisdom in the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 10 | As well as being an ideal wife and mother , and a symbol of social reform , she also represented a strong Western influence which was anathema to the Shiite clergy and to many ordinary , conservative Iranians . |