Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 2 | Public pressure against nuclear power was a factor in this decision , but so too was the government 's concern at the high costs of nuclear-generated electricity , waste disposal and plant decommissioning which were hindering its attempts to privatize the electricity industry . |
| 3 | And if recent reports are anything to go by it was n't only aircraft which were paying their respects to Parham yesterday . |
| 4 | She wondered whether there was something else that she had blocked from her conscious memory which was affecting her feelings towards men . |
| 5 | Despite Kipling 's dictum that " Never the twain shall meet " , the East had reached out and touched the West with a premonition , perhaps , of the planetary holism which was to grip our minds less than a century later when we walked on the moon , looked back , and for the first time saw the whole earth rising as a single bubble of life . |
| 6 | We approached the east landing cautiously and the cliffs awoke with bird clamour which was to assail our ears until we left . |
| 7 | Ed Riverton was a top executive in INCUBUS , the great American banking syndicate which was spreading its tentacles across Europe , investing in just about every type of company which existed . |
| 8 | This was used as one of the major defences of the British aid programme in Nepal which was to concentrate their efforts in villages with a predominant presence of ex-Gurkha soldiers which would encourage both better rapport between British field officers and farmers , as well as an ( ex- ) army-style sense of organisation , discipline and work-practice within the village itself . |