Example sentences of "which [was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a complex layout of these basement halls which were built to support the upper storey state apartments . |
| 2 | The seven charges were amongst 80 criminal and civil counts filed against Imelda Marcos which were estimated to carry a cumulative prison sentence of more than 400 years . |
| 3 | A fundamental dis-continuity between human thinking and non-human thinking is already presupposed in the very arguments which were used to describe the imagined evolution from the one to the other . |
| 4 | They also did the fibreglass forms which were used to create the P–40 mock-ups . |
| 5 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 6 | This was even more so for the special programmes developed by the Community , such as the Integrated Mediterranean Programmes which were established to enable the southern regions of France , Italy and Greece to adjust to the accession of Spain and Portugal into the EC . |
| 7 | The city 's economy is heavily weighted towards large manufacturing enterprises , most of which were established to supply the Soviet military . |
| 8 | In this chapter Neil Toppin describes the assessment panels at his school in Scotland , which were established to attempt a flexible response to problems of disruption within the school and to offer pupils excluded from other schools or returning from special provision another chance in the mainstream . |
| 9 | The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor . |
| 10 | He shouted angrily , and a three- man team hastened to attach the sets of magnoclamps which were designed to drain the static charge . |
| 11 | Refinements of surgical technique eventually culminated in the selective shunt procedures developed by Warren et al which were designed to decompress the gastro-oesophageal varices while preserving portal blood flow and liver function . |
| 12 | The monetary sector Until November 1981 the ‘ banking sector ’ comprised all banks in the UK which were required to observe the minimum reserve asset ratio imposed by the Competition and Credit Control arrangements of 1971 , together with the discount houses and the Banking Department of the Bank of England . |
| 13 | As well as these purely ceremonial occasions , the Emperor attended two councils of war which were held to discuss the Crimean campaign . |
| 14 | The budget deficit was K514,000,000 before taking into account grants and loans , which were expected to leave an overall deficit of K102,000,000 [ see p. 36993 for previous year 's budget figures ] . |
| 15 | The power of the suitors was divided between the sheriff or other officer who presided , and the committees or juries which were chosen to fulfil the various tasks of the body of suitors . |
| 16 | Initially , crops were grown which were known to have a high tolerance for metals and sulphates such as alfalfa , wheat and corn . |
| 17 | The Macclesfield Canal , which was built to serve the growing textile and other industries of Macclesfield and Congleton , was one of the final attempts to hold at bay the growing threat to canal transport from the railways . |
| 18 | New uses are emerging for that space and new governmental and administrative forms and processes are being created which facilitate its reordering in a way which is analogous to the use of enclosure to expel a surplus peasantry , of the New Poor Law in England to dispose of a surplus of rural proletarians , of clearance to reorder the Highlands of Scotland for capitalist sheep farming , and of the Poor Law , eviction and the failure to relieve famine which was intended to transform the congested districts of Ireland from peasant to large-scale landlord-led capitalist farming . |
| 19 | Women active within the labour movement , particularly members of the Fabian Women 's Group , were concerned that women 's economic dependence had a detrimental effect on the status of the wife and mother and proposed the state endowment of motherhood , which was intended to give the married woman a degree of economic independence without undermining her role as a wife and mother . |
| 20 | Janet Willcock accused the RUC of ‘ trying to make a sectarian event out of an occasion which was intended to symbolise the non-sectarian nature of the ideals of Connolly ’ . |
| 21 | Domestic debt ( money owed by state industrial units and commercial enterprises to each other ) , which was seen to pose a greater problem , stood at 80,000 million yuan , repayments reaching a peak with 30,000 million yuan payable in 1990 . |
| 22 | Others , however , objected to the replacement of the Schools Council by two unelected bodies ; they saw dangers in the minister ‘ surrounding himself by people of one opinion ’ , and in the ‘ centralized patronage ’ which was said to characterize the new arrangements , and they detected the eclipse of the values of curriculum pluralism for which the Schools Council had stood . |
| 23 | The team , which was formed to join the local boys ' football league , also received footballs and two holdalls for carrying the strips . |
| 24 | However , this mill differs from the simple prototype in having a brickbuilt outshot against its south-east elevation which was constructed to house an auxiliary steam-engine that would be brought into use during periods of drought . |
| 25 | At Stourhead Cheere 's figure symbolises the River Stour which was dammed to make the great lake at the heart of the landscape . |
| 26 | Japan , which was expected to pay the largest share of the UN 's cost in Cambodia , had announced its intention to organize a donors ' conference in Tokyo before March 1992 . |
| 27 | The creation of a new party was also a more exciting enterprise which was expected to have a greater effect on public opinion : for the first twelve months — until the Falklands crisis arrived — the SDP gained much favourable publicity and appeared to be potentially successful . |
| 28 | The new portrait was a bland adaptation of a Classical Greek figure , the spear-carrier created by the sculptor Polyclitus ( p.18 ) , which was thought to embody the ideal qualities of the human body and spirit . |
| 29 | The royal commission which was established to review the whole situation included two sympathetic members — Frederic Harrison and Thomas Hughes [ qq.v. ] — and Applegarth worked closely with them as a counter to the evidence of individual employers and their association . |
| 30 | Criticism has concentrated on the removal of the red coat worn by the Master of Ceremonies , which was shown to have a different binding agent in its pigment to the rest of the canvas and therefore considered not to be part of Veronese 's composition . |