Example sentences of "[noun prp] which be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The talks at Safwan , an Iraqi air force base near the Kuwaiti border south of Basra which was surrounded by US troops , involved seven Iraqi generals led by Lt.-Gen.
2 The club was to nearly kill the magazine as its losses accumulated , but it also provided a link with the United States which was to snap as the magazine moved towards Little Englandism , or Little Londonism .
3 When the Soviet Union intervened militarily in Afghanistan the British Foreign Secretary , Lord Carrington , rapidly proposed a plan for Afghanistan which was approved by the Council of Ministers of the EEC and adopted as a joint EEC declaration on 15 January 1980 .
4 Among the many places to visit are : the 12th-century abbeys of Jedburgh and Melrose ; Abbotsford House , the stately home of Sir Walter Scott which was financed by the Waverley novels ; and the 16th-century Thirlestone Castle , home to a fine collection of china , furniture and paintings and the Borders Country Life Museum .
5 Princess Alice , Duchess of Gloucester and The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were represented by Mr James Crowden at the Memorial Service for Colonel Geoffrey Hurrell which was held in Ely Cathedral this afternoon .
6 All Blacks Ian Jones and Pat Lam — the latter also having represented Western Samoa — were graduates from the last tour when the team lost to South Under-21s in a cracking contest at Poynder Park , yet defeated Scotland Under-21s — including Craig Chalmers and Tony Stanger — 25-21 in a match at Murrayfield which was played as a curtain-raiser to the Scotland v Australia international .
7 And on the other from a conception of the built environment proffered by Wagner and Loos which was grounded in rejection of classicizing and historicist idealism .
8 The Duke 's gardener , Joseph Paxton designed the Crystal Palace which was erected in Hyde Park for Prince Albert 's 1851 Great Exhibition , and later transferred to Sydenham in southeast London .
9 If we go back up to the corner of Rua de Carreira and Avenida Zarco and go up Rua das Pretas , we come to the Church of São Pedro which was completed in 1598 and then extensively restored in 1747–8 , when the front was altered .
10 The second half of this can be seen to coincide with the opinion of Chatterton which is expressed by Ackroyd 's Wilde : ‘ a strange , slight boy who was so prodigal of his genius that he attached the names of others to it . ’
11 Sociologists have either to accept a thoroughly verificationist approach to both Freud and to many of the founders of sociology , or to be inconsistent and accept a judgement made by psychologists about Freud which is based on logical and philosophical assumptions which , if applied to Max Weber or Èmile Durkheim or Marx , would lead to these thinkers being likewise dismissed as unscientific .
12 One of the regions adjacent to Surrey which is referred to in Frithuwald 's charter is Sonning , the province of the Suningas in east Berkshire , and it is possible that one of the three sub-kings who witnessed with Frithuwald ruled here , in which case Wulfhere 's presence in Berkshire was already established at the time of Frithuwald 's grant .
13 On March 20 Alfa Kartel , Romania 's largest independent trade union bloc , organized a protest march and rally in central Bucharest which was attended by some 5,000 people .
14 A traditionally holy part of Dakota which was seized by the American government , stripped of its mineral wealth and never returned to its rightful owners , the hills house a world-famous testament to white power .
15 Some variety was brought into the humdrum life at the gallery by the arrival of the Italian carabinieri , who found the works from the Tretyakov which were stolen in Genoa last year .
16 When a Masai killed a European farmer in the Sanya corridor — from which the Masai had been evicted — in 1955 , it was the shame and distress of all the other Masai which were emphasized by the administration .
17 In fact , major documents on the Hotteterre family have not been found since the posthumous inventory of Nicolas Hotteterre which was brought to light by Marcelle Benoit in 1969 .
18 BALMORAL CASTLE 4 October : The Queen was represented by Admiral of the Fleet the Lord Lewin at the Funeral of Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull which was held in St George 's Chapel , Windsor Castle , this morning .
19 Her Royal Highness , Colonel-in-Chief , 17th/21st Lancers , was represented by Colonel MC Watson , President of the Regimental Association , at the Funeral of Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull which was held in St George 's Chapel , Windsor Castle , this morning .
20 These include Permo-Carboniferous quartz dolerites occurring as a swarm of east-west trending dykes in North Barra and South Uist which are cut by slightly later thin monchiquite dykes ; and much later north west-south east trending Tertiary dykes found in a belt across southern Lewis and Harris .
21 He probably designed the Court House in Windsor which was completed by Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v. ] after his death .
22 Cameron Mackintosh 's production of Les Miserables which is scheduled for September , is expected to run in Edinburgh for about five months and attract more than half of its audience from outside Lothian Region .
23 The most extreme case was the school in Norfolk which was divided into twenty-three parts .
24 The blocks of high land are masses of granite , called batholiths , except Exmoor which is made of sandstone .
25 Police are still looking for the third — a brown Ford Sierra which was stolen from Brockhampton last night .
26 The first , George Joye , embarrassed him by publishing crude rhyming couplets about Wolsey which were attributed to Tyndale .
27 She devised the decorations at Middle Temple following a design used by Elizabeth I herself for a party at Whitehall which is described in detail in the State Papers .
28 Although my right hon. Friend the Member for Worthing ( Mr. Higgins ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham ( Sir P. Hordern ) mentioned in interventions yesterday a situation in my county of West Sussex which is replicated in many other local authority areas , there should be an opportunity — within order — to raise matters of concern and to obtain assurances from Ministers about them .
29 Rye is officially what is called an ‘ Ancient Town ’ attached to the Cinque Ports , those small ports along the coasts of Kent and East Sussex which were fortified against the French ; so necessary were they to the Crown that , in 1278 , they were given legal privileges : exemption from taxes , the right to rule themselves and appoint their own judges .
30 The area of Newham which was excluded from the study was the north-east corner of the borough which includes Manor Park .
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