Example sentences of "which was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tossed about between the two , he lacked a stable background , a circumstance which was aggravated by the changes in the fortunes of the Bonaparte family as a whole . |
| 2 | Later in the century , ‘ folk ’ took over these usages from ‘ popular ’ , which was transferred to the products of the music hall and then to those of the mass market song publishers of Tin Pan Alley and its British equivalent . |
| 3 | As the pairs had a pattern to follow which was dictated by the components of their task — lexis , structure , discourse function — it was possible for me to stop the discussions from time to time to concentrate the attention of the whole group on specific issues like , for example , the meaningful teaching or certain lexis and grammar . |
| 4 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 5 | Look up at the Great Tower which was built by the sons of Peter Parler in 1396 : -1406 , with a Renaissance gallery by B. Wohlmut , 1560–2 . |
| 6 | In the final communiqué , issued on Dec. 25 , of the meeting , which was attended by the heads of state of the six GCC countries , the GCC urged " the international community and the [ UN ] Security Council in particular to put more pressure on the Iraqi regime " for the implementation of UN resolutions . |
| 7 | The Company were already building ships at their yard which was sited opposite the Customs House and the dry dock helped to consolidate the repair side of the business . |
| 8 | It 's an ex-London Midland and Scottish Railway Class 5P4F 2-6-0 No. 42765 which was born between the wars at Crewe Works in 1927 . |
| 9 | Chomsky believed that the linguists should be studying the competence of language rather than the performance which was studied by the structuralists . |
| 10 | Most of the Committee 's recommendations were speedily implemented in the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 , which was amended by the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1966 . |
| 11 | In each case it was a duty which was imposed on the judges in their capacity as judges of the superior courts and related to the administration of justice in those courts . |
| 12 | They strictly kept the Oral Law , which was developed by the Scribes , to interpret the Law of Moses . |
| 13 | The expenses of this were known as coat-and-conduct money , part of which was reimbursed by the Crown but most of which was borne by the counties . |
| 14 | The plea , from Japanese war veterans ' groups , comes as a diving team from Bristol begins an expedition in Truk Lagoon today to chart the wreckage of the Japanese 4th Fleet , which was destroyed by the Americans in February 1944 … |
| 15 | He attended Germaine Greer 's first feminist lecture , but if he had a connection with the ferment of drugs , ‘ sexual politics ’ and revolutionary doo-da which was stewing amid the spires , it was probably distant and reserved . |
| 16 | The Provincial Commissioner , Philip Mitchell , then near the beginning of the career which was to culminate in the governorships of Uganda and Kenya , complimented Murrells on his anthropological acumen — and advised him that the local councils of elders should ‘ consist where possible of one man , with three or more advisers , rather than a Committee because of the notorious weakness of Committees as executive instruments ’ . |
| 17 | The argument , which was accepted by the Democrats , reasoned that as the territories ' representatives were permitted to vote in legislative committees they should , therefore , be entitled to vote in the committee of the whole . |
| 18 | French intervention in Mexico , which was seen by the Americans as an affront to the Monroe Doctrine , coupled with the Emperor 's known sympathy with the Confederacy during the Civil War , had served to reinforce American prejudice against the Empire and all its works . |
| 19 | Robyn rose early to skies that promised a truly blissful day of warm summer sunshine , showered and dressed and then drove off in her dilapidated jeep which was packed to the gunwales with everything she might possibly need for the day ahead . |
| 20 | The object of the teams was to co-ordinate the regional activities of the Manpower Services Commission ( now the Training Agency ) , the Department of Employment , the Department of the Environment and the Department of Trade and Industry , each of which was represented on the teams . |
| 21 | In the first part , they established a definition of poverty which was based on the judgements of the respondents to the survey . |
| 22 | In these schools and classrooms the more traditional approaches to teaching and learning were rejected , not because they were traditional but because their teachers came to realise that through a programme of learning which was based upon the qualities and gifts of each child , higher standards could be achieved . |
| 23 | The Romans had an old tradition of chronicling which was kept in the hands of aristocratic pontiffs . |
| 24 | He was in his early fifties with wavy black hair and a craggy face which was scarred around the cheeks and mouth from teenage acne . |
| 25 | As well as academic achievements , McGill was noted for originating two major sports : ice hockey , in 1875 , largely from the rules written by J.G.A. Creighton ; and a species of rugby which was played by the citizens and soldiers ( for Montreal had remained a garrison town ) as well as the students . |
| 26 | IFN γ led to a noticeable increase in HLA-DR mRNA which was attenuated by the drugs . |
| 27 | This ‘ supervisory jurisdiction ’ ( which is ‘ inherent ’ , that is to say , it is a jurisdiction which was assumed by the judges rather than conferred on the court by statute ) is to be contrasted with ‘ appellate jurisdiction ’ ( which is possessed by a number of courts and other bodies such as appeal tribunals ) . |
| 28 | This kind of rapport is difficult to achieve and it entails an entirely different relationship between the informant and his pupil from that which was assumed by the anthropologists of seventy years ago . |
| 29 | ‘ Not only the members of the small governing class but every squire , tradesman and farmer who could afford to modernize or rebuild his house , even the parson , deputy of Christ , lived behind a façade which was conceived in the terms of a Classical Order , entered his home through a doorway deriving from the portico of a pagan shrine and sat at a hearth which resembled a miniature triumphal arch or an altar to the Lares . ’ |
| 30 | This measure provided in part the financial discipline which was lacking in the budgets of earlier years . |