Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main trend was for greater powers for the republics , which were to join the new union on a voluntary basis , choosing the level of involvement which they wanted to have . |
| 2 | The foregoing is fully applicable to the motivation of all those individuals who influenced the events which were creating the religious climate and who , unbeknown to themselves were contributing to the Created God . |
| 3 | The typical Mediterranean wine-olive-wheat complex began , in the eighteenth century , an expansion and modification that were to continue , after the shocks of war , into the nineteenth and which were to transform the agricultural potential of Catalonia . |
| 4 | This resulted in the accounts to 31 March 1989 , which were given a clean audit report , being materially misleading . |
| 5 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 6 | The pace was fast ; they stopped only at way stations which were situated every hundred verst or so to change st'lyan . |
| 7 | It comprised a circular curtain-wall of stone enclosing a courtyard within which were placed the domestic apartments and service offices , probably of timber construction . |
| 8 | Even in eastern Europe the active anti-semitic campaigns , which were to stimulate the mass emigration of the Jews , still lay in the future . |
| 9 | Two other methods , which did not involve a return to the original pasture , were strip grazing , in which sheep were confined to a narrow strip across the field by fences which were moved every few days , and creep grazing , in which a single fence confined the ewes , but since it possessed a " creep " or hole , allowed the lambs to graze forward . |
| 10 | There was a call to say there had been an accident involving a lorry which had careered off the road spilling its load of drums , some of which were leaking an unidentified liquid . |
| 11 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 12 | But limited partnerships are rare , private companies , which were sanctioned the next year by the Companies Act 198 , having proved more popular . |
| 13 | The Church gave to every community , large or small , refuge from persecution and pillage , provided education and learning , medical aid and a basis for life by which were allayed the superstitious fears of the individual , which stemmed from his lack of experience and knowledge of health , life and death , understanding of the world and of man himself . |
| 14 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 15 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
| 16 | Now the suite was in my name , so I was charged with possession of all these drugs , and with assault , and with a lot of other charges like operating a dive , running a disorderly house and all silly charges which were dropped the following day . |
| 17 | At this Council , on the last day and perhaps without premeditation , Urban pronounced two anathemas which were to have a delayed but decisive influence on Anselm 's later years . |
| 18 | The officer turned away , returning a moment later with a clipboard to which were attached the preliminary , handwritten reports . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the issues which created the divide during the Exclusion Crisis were not new ; concerns about the prospect of a popish successor , the growth of popery and arbitrary government , and the nature of government in both Church and State , had been creating tensions long before Titus Oates made the revelations which were to precipitate the political crisis at the end of Charles II 's reign . |
| 20 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 21 | On the contrary , none of the nations wanted war , and ‘ ever new progressive and democratic forces ’ had appeared in the capitalist countries which were strengthening the common struggle for peace . |
| 22 | Clergymen accused the early Cremation Societies of creating local monopolies , which were putting the new practice beyond the reach of the poor . |
| 23 | The published accounts of these journeys and the plants found , 250 in Kent and 72 more in Hampstead , were the first records of the herborising expeditions which were to become a regular part of the Apprentices ' training in botany . |
| 24 | As a result , by the early 1900s , a nationalist undercurrent was developing led by a charismatic young man , Mustafa Kamil , and though there were strikes and demonstrations ( which were to become a regular feature of Egyptian political life ) , Britain remained as unmoved , aloof and arrogant as ever . |
| 25 | There was intense suspicion of the ‘ foreigner ’ ( although he was as likely to be a trader from the nearby town as a native of another land ) , but the ordinary inhabitants of the territories which were to become the modern States of Europe had no sense of common identity , of membership of national groups . |
| 26 | And while the hierarchy of the Roman Church dictated the texts which were to become the canonical New Testament , the monasteries in Egypt embraced a much more diverse body of teaching , exemplified by the Gospel of Thomas and by the other texts found at Nag Hammadi . |
| 27 | Under the treaty with the United Kingdom , the twenty-six counties which were to become the independent state were to remain within the British Empire with dominion status , and the British monarch was to remain head of state . |
| 28 | We lost 0–2 but events were taking shape which were to bring the young goalkeeper to the fore : Coventry City swooped for Glazier 's signature in mid-October at a record fee for a goalkeeper of £35,000 . |
| 29 | More than a century earlier , in 1856 , a Select Committee of the House of Commons had heard arguments remarkably similar to those which were to convince the Royal Commission : |
| 30 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |