Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owing to the limited budget , Barbara urged caution on decision on grants which were phased over more than one year , and thus had financial implications for the future . |
| 2 | Accordingly , the regular demand and supply of currencies in the foreign exchange markets tended to be dominated by current account transactions , which were expanding quite rapidly as international trade grew faster than domestic growth rates . |
| 3 | Judicial statistics , which were compiled more systematically as time went by , continued to show a high number of offences . |
| 4 | At Samarkand , masons were active building a grand terminus ( which was to remain so only until the railway was carried through to Tashkent in 1898 ) . |
| 5 | The Conservative government in Britain in 1990 still gave priority to fighting inflation , which was rising more steeply than in its commercial competitors . |
| 6 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 7 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 8 | The skull of a Celtic princess which was dug up more than a hundred years ago could soon be given a face . |
| 9 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 10 | The outcome of this work , which was carried out just after candidates had enrolled for the Batch 1 courses , is still awaited . |
| 11 | They were then struggling at 127 for four with 16 overs remaining but Byas pulled Caddick for six to restore confidence , which was boosted even further when he was dropped on the boundary edge by Andy Hayhurst when 27 . |
| 12 | There is great concern in Northern Ireland , especially following a report from a Committee of the House on land in the harbour region which was sold off cheaply when Harland and Wolff was privatised . |
| 13 | The output of private presses , which was growing much faster than that of the party and the state , had to be monitored , and surpassed in quality by party organs . |