Example sentences of "which was [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social services had a high degree of commitment to community care planning , which was diluted in the health agencies by other priorities . |
| 2 | Kevin Keegan , Ian Botham , Sally Gunnell and Nick Brown , not to mention figures from the world of showbusiness , Max Boyce and Fiona Fullerton , all took their courtside tables for the running buffet which was served during the tennis . |
| 3 | The Lewis ' £9,000 dream car which was wrecked by a drink driver |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was a problem which was aggravated by the need to meet the political argument that accession would involve an abandonment of sovereignty . |
| 6 | The bread supplied by Benjamin Maulden was ‘ very indifferently baked ’ and the house surgeon was to write to him expressing the Board 's dissatisfaction — which was extended to a Mr. Bentham , whose bread was found to be underweight . |
| 7 | This comprised three street tramway lines based on Mitcham , one of which was extended to the Croydon Borough boundary . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was probably caused by the roll of linoleum , one end of which was tied to the carrier behind her saddle , the other to the handlebar . |
| 10 | She was seated on the Woolpack which was tied like a saddle to her Grey Horse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To understand why the RHA became involved and wanted to force the pace , it is necessary to turn back to examine the state of affairs which was inherited by the authority from the old metropolitan health board . |
| 13 | Instead of entering the water , he landed straddled on an anchor which was racked at the stern . |
| 14 | It was a form of devotion found not only among the learned but in prayers designed for the laity , as for instance , in another prayer recommended for lay folk at the elevation of the Host : or in the prayer , a fragment of which was carved on a church bench in Oxfordshire : Jesu for thy holy name And for thy bitter passion , Save us fro synne and shame And endles dampnacion . |
| 15 | Considerably more sacrilegious , albeit in a flippant way , is Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , " Of the cunt , which was made with a spade " , in which God is presented as having forgotten to give Eve genitals and then allowing the Devil to remedy this , on the condition that he neither adds to nor takes anything away from God 's creature . |
| 16 | The picture collection , which was made with the help of the dealer William Buchanan , was formed chiefly between 1840 and 1860 from most of the important auctions in London and from Italian collections . |
| 17 | Announcing the arrest , which was made during a raid on the offices of an Imhausen-Chemie subsidiary in Bochum near Cologne , the Cologne state prosecutor , Holger Presiendanz , said that Hippenstiel-Imhausen was " strongly suspected " of a " significant personal role in the planning and building " of the Rabta plant ( for previous report on the investigation see p. 36477 ) . |
| 18 | The award , which was made during the year in which both the RSC and the polytechnic celebrate their sesquicentenaries , recognised the longstanding special relationship between the parties , and marks the RSC 's contribution to the work , life and culture of the polytechnic and its precursor institutions . |
| 19 | An American actor called Spalding Gray had a bit part , but this did n't prevent him from developing a one-man act about the making of the film called Swimming to Cambodia which was made into a film in 1987 , directed by Jonathan Demme . |
| 20 | And I think as far as the critics are concerned , John Maynard-Smith may allow me to adapt erm the critical misjudgement of all time , which was made by a Dublin Professor when The Origin of Species first came out , which you will remember no doubt |
| 21 | That course could not be taken in the present case , because of a specific and unusual statutory provision which anticipated the kind of mistake which was made by the sentencer in this case . |
| 22 | On 1 March he published his intention of inviolably observing the Charter of the Forest in all its articles : he appointed four commissioners to supervise the making in each forest county of ‘ a true perambulation , namely that which was made in the time of the lord King Henry our father , which has not yet been challenged ’ . |
| 23 | Then , when Uncle Guy arrived from Dublin he brought them a present , an enormous box of chocolates which was made like a chest or jewel box with trays that pulled out like small drawers , containing different foil-wrapped shapes . |
| 24 | ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . ) |
| 25 | By a mysterious logic which was lost on the majority , a retired military officer took command , demanding total obedience from all foreigners in the camp . |
| 26 | An owl few over the ford , banked into a beechwood and gave a last hollow call , which was lost in the dawn 's loud chorus that seemed to presage a bright hot summer 's day in this rich and placid countryside . |
| 27 | The Edwardians were much perturbed by what was known as the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ and the structural unemployment which was built into the labour market for youths . |
| 28 | On the coast where we turn right and inland to the village of São Vicente ( 116km ) there is a tiny chapel which was built into the rock beside the mouth of the river in 1692 . |
| 29 | Granby House is a seven-storey building of 1908 which was built as a cotton warehouse . |
| 30 | ‘ At Sedgebrook , ’ wrote Willingham Franklin Rawnsley , ‘ is a farmhouse which was built as a manor house by Sir John Markham when he was Lord Chief Justice of the King 's Bench . |