Example sentences of "[noun] which [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had not stopped working as from the stairs Ralph could hear the monotonous sound of gushing water working away the flames which were becoming hotter and higher , burning everything in sight . |
| 2 | When the press photographers took pictures the following morning their pictures of chaos were somehow symbolic of the chaos which was growing worse in Romania . |
| 3 | But Didone has a peculiarity which was to mark later Italian opera , including L'incoronazione : the part of Jarba , Dido 's rejected lover , who in the end saves her from suicide , is a castrato singing in a higher register than Dido herself ; Nerone and Ottone are in the same predicament . |
| 4 | Nor can it be wholly explained by the employment changes which were pushing greater numbers of people into the market irrespective of wage trends . |
| 5 | In 1977 , the area was hit by massive floods which were made worse by the strip mining operations , leaving thousands of people homeless . |
| 6 | One concomitant of the close link between landed patrons and Anglican clergy was a growing divorce between the church and people which was made worse by the generally lax state of the eighteenth-century diocese of Chichester . |
| 7 | I saw this good-looking redhead with a bust to challenge Shakti 's — a sight which was getting rarer and rarer as women were made to get thinner and thinner for the convenience of the multi-billion dress designing industry , much easier and hence more economical and hence more profitable to clothe a bean pole than an hour glass — walking my way . |
| 8 | But others felt the bins themselves presented a health hazard which was made worse by inadequate servicing in the summer . |