Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and time again the reviewers in Early music have attacked ideas and suppositions of a kind that characterize much modern culture but which were strengthened in the 1960s : that one should be allowed to do what one wishes without the interference of authority ; that every kind of self-expression is equally valid because it is self-expression , and so on . |
| 2 | the record of some of the institutional innovations which pluralists have suggested and which were created in the 1970s , do not appear to have been as successful in reducing military expenditure as pluralists have assumed they would . |
| 3 | The leading case on the requirement of reasonableness arose , not under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , but under the earlier provisions of the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 which were replaced by the 1977 Act . |
| 4 | Wren designed fifty new churches , most of which were constructed during the 1670s . |
| 5 | However , centres will be able to continue to offer any programmes which were developed from the 1992 |
| 6 | The earliest comprehensive statistics , which were compiled in the 1860s , indicated that about seven or eight per cent of the population were accused of some criminal offence each year . |
| 7 | The news categories used by the 1947 Press Commission , which were followed for the 1975 analysis , were too general to show up many differences of detail , but are recorded in Table 6.6 . |
| 8 | The original calculations which are outlined in er N Y six are based on assumptions which were available at the time which were based on the eighty one census essentially , those calculations form the basis of the consultation plan and the deposit plan . |
| 9 | At the national level , women 's political participation was confined to the ladies auxiliaries of the Conservative and Liberal parties , which were formed during the 1880s and 1890s as a means of making use of women 's formidable political energies and of siphoning off potential protest |
| 10 | The US decision will be welcomed by environmentalists concerned about the safety risks posed by several US nuclear bomb making plants , which were built in the 1950s . |
| 11 | This is not just because the terms Whig and Tory were not to become current usage until the Exclusion Crisis , but because the political polarities which were emerging in the 1660s and 1670s — between Court and Country — did not predict the Whig–Tory split that was to emerge after the Popish Plot . |
| 12 | There is little trace left of York 's truly ancient coaching , posting and market inns , while nearly half the pubs which were standing in the 1950s , including some historic gems , have been closed down , converted , or redeveloped into oblivion . |
| 13 | This shift of emphasis , the seeds of which were sown in the 1960s and 1970s , would root teachers much more firmly in the communities they serve . |
| 14 | Only three cantons ( Zürich , Basel City and Graubünden ) voted in favour of the reforms , which were backed by the four government parties , the trade unions , and the bankers ' associations . |
| 15 | The squalor of rural housing conditions became a mid-century scandal , highlighted by the government Blue Books on living conditions and public health which were published during the 1850s and 1860s . |
| 16 | Two schools for the deaf which were opened in the 1900s were both from the start to establish a pure oralist tradition . |
| 17 | The clauses , which were introduced under the 1974-79 Labour Government , were no doubt designed to reassure people that the dangers would be minimised , as the spent nuclear fuel would be returned to the country of origin . |
| 18 | For large numbers come into the criminal justice system unnecessarily , erm that is likely to set back the progress which was made during the nineteen eighties and er increase and reinforce criminality . |
| 19 | there is a model of a robot from Japan which was made in the 1960s . |
| 20 | The proposal to restore the provost as local civic figurehead raises the prospect of restoring a position to the region 's small towns and burghs which was lost in the 1975 reforms . |
| 21 | There are numerous picturesque villages , ruined abbeys , and historic houses within easy driving distance , including Sledmere House which was built in the 1750s and rebuilt after a devastating fire , using the original plans , in 1911 . |
| 22 | The sale of surplus housing , which was built in the 1950s , and land near Harwell is to be managed by Kemp and Kemp , an Oxford firm of surveyors and planning consultants . |
| 23 | The Premiership outfit , who have already built three new stands in the past 15 years , are drawing up plans to replace the old south stand which was built in the 1930s . |
| 24 | It used to be called the Great Western railway , which was built in the 1830s under the guidance of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel . |
| 25 | By the end of the war numbers had increased to 458 , which included 60 in the recently re-housed Junior School , the success of which was indicated by the 136 candidates for the 28 vacancies at the previous Entrance Examination . |
| 26 | The ruin of the German economy which was completed by the Thirty Years War also brought the ruin of the Fuggers . |
| 27 | We know from archaeology that Birka was at the northern end of a flourishing trade route which was beginning in the 830s and 840s to bring in huge quantities of silver from the Muslim-controlled trade routes between Byzantium and China . |
| 28 | Such a cautious approach to the potential of genetic engineering is also to be applauded in the wake of the dilemmas that have been created by the harnessing of nuclear power , the science for which was developed in the 1940s in response to weaponry requirements in the Second World War . |
| 29 | The leading principles of prize law were settled by Lord Stowell during the Napoleonic wars ; and they were the basis of the prize law which was applied in the 1914–18 and 1939–45 wars . |
| 30 | This was a thin length of yellow wood , calibrated in inches , which was fixed against the one brick wall in his glass office . |