Example sentences of "which was [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baillie-Stewart had renounced his British citizenship before the war and applied for German naturalisation , a gesture which was to save his life in 1946 . |
| 2 | The character of the design does not differ from that of contemporary marbles , but arms and hands free of the body ( cf. fig. 72 where , in spite of the struts , the hands are lost ) demonstrate the much greater tensile strength of bronze , which was to allow its use in the classical period for compositions which the Greek marble-worker would have shunned . |
| 3 | More recently , the Court of Appeal set aside an order prohibiting reporting by radio or television of a trial of fraud and corruption charges which was nearing its end at Stafford Crown Court . |
| 4 | In 1253–4 he went peacefully to visit Louis IX at Paris and , as duke of Aquitaine , to arbitrate a feud which was dividing his city of Bordeaux into two powerful factions . |
| 5 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 6 | He also started the city 's silk industry which was to underpin its economy for many years . |
| 7 | To a large extent , the cabinet reshuffle of 1957 marked the point at which the Franco regime adopted the style which was to become its hallmark in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 8 | This chapel marks the ultimate halt in a via sacra of 14 chapels which was to wind its way down the hill to the Malá Strana . |
| 9 | Vanguard was breaking up and its supporters were either rejoining the Unionist Party or moving to Paisley 's DUP , which was consolidating its position as the more militant and more populist loyalist party . |