Example sentences of "which was [verb] in the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was the west side of the house , which was built in the shape of an E without the middle prong . |
| 5 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |
| 6 | Which was smarting in the eye and she went to hospital to have her eye rinsed and all that . |
| 7 | From farther north in America comes the more familiar ‘ to have a chip on your shoulder ’ which was born in the logging camps . |
| 8 | Clovis 's letter , which was sent in the aftermath of the battle of " Vouillé " , describes how he had decreed that no one was to harm the Church , those who had entered the religious life , those living with them , or slaves of the Church . |
| 9 | Then Stephen beat off two defenders in a run to the line and Dave Groves met the resulting cross with a diving header which was cleared in the goalmouth . |
| 10 | Most importantly , it was forged out of the overlap between work-place and village , the fact that , as an occupational community , relationships established at work spilled over into leisure hours , while the accepted code of behaviour which was followed in the village also applied to the situation at work . |
| 11 | It will involve the synthesis and analysis of a large amount of research material which was collected in the course of a series of comparative housing projects recently completed . |
| 12 | The planning process has been delayed and made more expensive by the need for constant negotiations between authorities responsible for two separate parts of a process which was intended in the Town and County Planning Acts of 1968 and 1971 to be fully integrated . |
| 13 | In Western music the established framework for stability and order has been the diatonic harmonic system which was developed in the Renaissance . |
| 14 | And the system of Standing Cabinet Committees , which was developed in the War Cabinet days , now makes it possible to work with a smaller Cabinet , on the lines of your War Cabinet and ‘ Caretaker ’ Cabinet , 49 without impairing the principle of collective responsibility . |
| 15 | A CHARITY has been asked to help furnish a church in a Croatian village which was damaged in the war with the Serbs but has been painstakingly rebuilt by the villagers . |
| 16 | The 12 sows and 52 piglets were trapped in a shed which was destroyed in the blaze . |
| 17 | A NATIONAL arts development agency , which was based in the North-East , has collapsed with debts of £30,000 . |
| 18 | It was Friday morning , cold and clear after the night rain , and Annie brought Rachel down the stairs and settled her in the pram which was kept in the passageway beside the kitchen . |
| 19 | Aged nine , I joined the library and was introduced by a boy called Sid Staveley to the photographs in Lord Russell of Liverpool 's The Scourge of the Swastika , a bulging book bound in jaundiced polythene which was kept in the adult section . |
| 20 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 21 | According to this view the democratic political revolutions were carried out by a new class — the bourgeoisie — which was formed in the process of development of commercial and industrial capitalism ; and the future of democracy would be vitally affected by the inherent tendencies of capitalist production and the relation between the bourgeoisie and the other new class in capitalist society — the proletariat . |
| 22 | The body , which was discovered in the city yesterday morning , was identified through fingerprints . |
| 23 | At some time during this period of reunions , Hortense became pregnant — an event which was announced in the Journal de l'Empire in October of the same year . |
| 24 | Bridling , I wrote a long riposte , which was printed in the issue for 2 February 1935 . |
| 25 | She only had the part of my address which was printed in the magazine but she sent her letter off and the post office did the rest . |
| 26 | A good indication of what was passing through his mind in the aftermath of Barricades Week is provided by a letter that he wrote to his son in mid-February : " we had to be done with the impertinent pressure of the European population in Algiers , with the hard core of politicians which was forming in the army , and finally with the myth of " French Algeria " which merely disguises the desire of the " pieds noirs " to maintain their domination over the Muslims … |
| 27 | He glanced at the head , which was resting in the crook of his right arm . |
| 28 | This can help to prevent the kind of simplistic denunciation of it which was given in the example quoted on page 62 – 3 in Chapter 5 . |
| 29 | Furthermore , there was an insufficient degree of regularity to make the purchase of the car by the plaintiffs something which was done in the course of their business . |
| 30 | Its approval , which was achieved in the face of determined resistance by much of the opposition , was greeted with reservations from many neighbouring countries . |