Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another Parliamentary occasion , when it was alleged that cases of motor banditry were being grossly exaggerated in the press , reference was made to ‘ such trivial acts as the pulling down of shutters of an empty kiosk and stealing cigarettes and sweets ’ which were contrasted with what was called ‘ real crime ’ . |
| 2 | Winchester 's complaints that they had had no opportunity to make any representation and that they lacked particulars of the allegations which were made against them , met with no response from Lautro . |
| 3 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 4 | Structuralists did not believe in examining the text in relation to society — although they did believe in examining the relationships within texts and between texts — nor in examining it as a work with moral significance ; the aim was simply to lay bare the universal structures which were hidden within it . |
| 5 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
| 6 | ‘ You have some papers , Fagin , ’ said Mr Brownlow quietly , ‘ which were given to you by Monks to look after . ’ |
| 7 | There is a chapter which discusses the letters from Germans — ‘ good Germans ’ in the main — which were sent to him in response to his book about the camps . |
| 8 | Each of these groups came up with a list of proposals which were sent to everyone attending . |
| 9 | It was found among a collection of magazines , news-sheets and leaflets which were sent to us by one of the researchers for our archives on feminism in the 20th century . |
| 10 | This was an advantage that was quite foreign to legacies , which were bound to their traditional procedural constraints . |
| 11 | In City Fur Manufacturing Co. v. Fureenbond ( 1937 K.B. ) A owned some skins which were stored for him at an independent warehouse . |
| 12 | Born in Belgium in 1903 , he easily acquired the sexual habits which were to lead to his eventual boast to have slept with 10,000 women — 8,000 of them prostitutes . |
| 13 | According to Kelly , Fang 's speech , ‘ displayed all the features which were to lead to his purge in 1987 ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 133 ) . |
| 14 | John Paul II described how he personally scrutinised successive drafts — 10 in all — which were presented for his consideration . |
| 15 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 16 | Alice , slightly pink , glanced at Auguste , and continued to avoid Alfred 's eyes which were fixed on her beseechingly . |
| 17 | My Lords , having drafted this speech , I then had the pleasure and advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and concluded that I ought to refer to the company fraud cases which were canvassed before your Lordships , lest it be thought that the Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 statement of principle is inconsistent with a proper approach to such cases . |
| 18 | " The examination being closed we then distributed under the recommendation of the Examiner various Books to the boys who had chiefly distinguished themselves as a reward for assiduity and good conduct , and as an incitement to future exertions which were received by them with marked satisfaction . " |
| 19 | Voluntary grammar schools retained higher social status than the publicly financed ‘ higher elementary schools ’ , which were stigmatized by their association with the entirely working-class elementary schools . |
| 20 | According to the Financial Times of Sept. 19 , the Economic Committee would replace the majority of ministries , which were functioning under their deputy ministers after the resignation of the whole Cabinet in August [ ibid . ] . |
| 21 | But they got on famously together and were to become our stalwart allies in a maelstrom of conflicting vendettas which were to unfold around us . |
| 22 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 23 | Aircraft which were collected with such discrimination and taste , which were restored using the most scrupulous of standards and which were displayed for us and our children to enjoy at the Tamiami Airport near Miami , Florida . |
| 24 | Goods we cou which were manufactured in our countries . |
| 25 | In order to drive home the point that the messianic Spirit , the Spirit of the days of salvation , was really available to all believers , the Spirit had first of all to inspire Peter with his vision of the unclean animals in the sheet which were intended for him to eat , and then to apply that vision to a Gentile officer whose men were at that very moment waiting in the courtyard for Peter to accompany them to Cornelius so that he might receive the good news of Jesus . |
| 26 | ‘ Let me go , put me down , ’ and when he would n't , she tried to plunge her teeth into his arms which were clamped round her like steel bands . |
| 27 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |
| 28 | Ray Ranson , United 's skipper , was booked for his protests , which were maintained by his team-mates when Blackburn won possession and Mark Atkins headed down for David Speedie to score with a half-volley . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 30 | The part-braided ends of his long hair escaped from the busy fingers which were engaged in their intricate task . |