Example sentences of "[prep] which was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blake left the navy in 1947 with an excellent report on his work , a copy of which was sent to General Gerald Templer , Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office . |
| 2 | This comprised three street tramway lines based on Mitcham , one of which was extended to the Croydon Borough boundary . |
| 3 | Eric Jones-Evans began donating material to the Theatre Collection in 1980 and the remainder , including his substantial library , formed just a part of his considerable estate , the bulk of which was bequeathed to the Collection upon his death in 1989 . |
| 4 | Moreover , at least since the nineteenth century there has been a spillover into the State schools of the ethos of the independent boarding schools , the purpose of which was understood to be as much moral as academic , with character-training high on the agenda . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill . |
| 7 | This provided the basis for contextual ratings , the most important of which was found to be long-term threat . |
| 8 | It was decided to build a huge central market , the construction of which was entrusted to Baltard , a man who was as much an engineer as an architect , on a site which had existed since the reign of Napoleon I. Succeeding regimes had neither had the will nor the drive to carry out the project as originally planned , but the Emperor was determined that this new market should be one of the earliest major building projects of his reign . |
| 9 | External locus of control was measured on four items , no more than one of which was allowed to be missing . |
| 10 | Each child had been strangled with red tape , the other end of which was attached to a brick , that was used to prevent the tiny body rising to the surface . |
| 11 | He was even able to produce the fragile Turkish deeds to the serail in Jaffa and British documents proving family ownership of orange groves in Yazour on the main Jaffa–Jerusalem road ( 32 dunums ) , near Holon ( 76 dunums ) and at Beit Dajan ( 240 dunums ) and to property in Jerusalem , part of which was rented to a British assistant district commissioner . |
| 12 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |
| 13 | As you might well expect , Microsoft Windows played a key role at the COMDEX exhibition , a single section of which was dedicated to the largest ever demonstration of third-party Windows applications . |
| 14 | More generally , there was a growing belief over the 1960s and into the 1970s that Britain 's industrial problems could be overcome through more vigorous entrepreneurship , the supply of which was held to be ‘ market-determined ’ . |
| 15 | This more exclusivist approach can be seen in some of the proposals embodied in Mr Gorbachev 's Murmansk Initiative most of which was directed to the Nordic and other Arctic states . |
| 16 | Nivelle Elite , who all sired some excellent stock , some of which was exported to Australia and at the time of writing , has taken Best in Show at Club Championship Show level . |
| 17 | Consequently he was in a ferocious temper when he got into his room and saw a mound of mail on his desk , half of which was addressed to Steinmark . |
| 18 | According to the Bush administration , the war was estimated to have cost about $50,000 million , most of which was expected to be offset by contributions of $36,000 million made recently by Japan , Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . |
| 19 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |