Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a large village with earthworks on the periphery which were excavated initially by David Hall in advance of redevelopment for houses . |
| 2 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
| 3 | In the case of coal , this is undoubtedly true : it is the partially decomposed remains of forests , which were made up of giant clubmosses and other extinct trees . |
| 4 | Because of the accident that , in the early days , a high proportion of the best anthropological field research wan carried out in societies which were made up of exogamous unilineal descent groups , many textbooks give the impression that unilineal descent is the normal pattern in primitive societies and hence that the distinction between kinship ( of common substance ) and affinity is normally clear-out and unambiguous . |
| 5 | In the late Eighties Jeremy Ridgway and David Bennett , Zimbabwe-born but living in London , produced the ‘ Cum ’ paintings which were made up in part from semen and shown in New York . |
| 6 | This is not to say that a series like Follow Me can not be used in the classroom , but it is organised in a different way from materials like Let's Watch or Video English which were made specifically for classroom use . |
| 7 | A number of returns which were prepared manually at various locations are now produced by the computer , resulting in saving of staff time and effort . |
| 8 | Worst hit were the Devon seaside towns of Sidmouth and Exmouth , which were cut off for several hours on Wednesday . |
| 9 | Various detector companies sent donations of gift which were given away at all three fetes . |
| 10 | He was now studying the crayoned pictures of the nativity by local children which were taped up on the pillars . |
| 11 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |
| 12 | He had studied at Chelsea in his apprenticeship days and his highly successful practice in Mark Lane enabled him to retire early to Eltham in Kent and to devote the rest of his days to his garden of rare plants , many of which were sent home by his brother from the Near East . |
| 13 | The most spectacular accidents were to two Standard cars which were blown over in gale-force winds : car 28 on the Cliffs in 1927 and car 50 at the Metropole in December 1940 . |
| 14 | Much easier to photograph were the giant tortoises which were lumbering around like tanks in the undergrowth . |
| 15 | A set of phonological reduction rules was applied to this lexicon to derive fast speech forms , which were stored together with the citation form under the corresponding orthographic entry . |
| 16 | He had barely slept for days and his white face was dominated by his broad , dark eyebrows , which were locked together in an expression suggesting both grief and incomprehension . |
| 17 | This was the case even with black and white ( monochrome ) , though the shallow focal planes preferred in much 1930s cinematography , sharp only on the foreground or middle ground , tolerated slightly dim and fuzzy backgrounds which were seen out of focus in the final process shot . |
| 18 | On May 7 the Executive Yuan lifted martial law on the offshore islands of Matsu and Chinmen ( Quemoy ) , both of which were situated close to the Chinese mainland . |
| 19 | Confirmation of the deal , the terms of which were adjusted marginally for exchange rate movements since a letter of intent was signed in July , coincided with the release of Nu-Swift 's interim figures revealing pre-tax profits of £16.4m ( £15.5m ) and earnings per share of 19.78p ( 18.73p ) . |
| 20 | These are some of the issues which were raised directly in recent proceedings before the comptroller or the court . |
| 21 | They allowed the blue entrails to fall on huge platters which were scooped up by young , ragged-arsed apprentices to be cleansed in vats of scalding water . |
| 22 | I was once told that Philip Henry Thomas , while preparing himself for the Civil Service examination , had followed his period as a pupil-teacher with a post connected with the railways which were expanding rapidly in industrial South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 23 | Two of his country houses , Eshton Hall , Yorkshire ( 1825–7 ) , and Underley Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale ( 1825–8 ) , are amongst the very earliest examples of this idiom , as well as being notably accomplished productions which were singled out for praise in Specimens of the Details of Elizabethan Architecture ( 1839 ) , by Henry Shaw [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Furthermore , while the main thrust of the treaty had a very clear specification of the timetable and the procedures to be followed , it was rather vague on several other points which were announced only in terms of general principles . |
| 25 | Dimetrodon and other dinosaurs padded about on the surface of the Coal Measures which were bent up into the great hump-like structure , or anticline , of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 26 | This is a highly dangerous area to sail in because the seas contain many monstrous creatures which were stirred up by the collapse of northern Ulthuan centuries ago — Kraken , huge shark-like megalodons , Behemoths and even the dread Black Leviathan are all commonly seen in the waters north of Ulthuan . |
| 27 | All images were evaluated by one of the authors ( WBT ) without previous knowledge of the results of the clinical or laboratory tests , which were collected separately without knowledge of the scan score . |
| 28 | All images were evaluated by one of the authors ( WBT ) without previous knowledge of the results of the clinical or laboratory tests , which were collected separately without knowledge of the scan score . |
| 29 | Subjects heard sentences from four different sets , in random order , and after a distractor task , were given a forced-choice recognition test in which they were given both sentences they had originally heard and new sentences which were constructed either by combining information from within a set , or combining information from different sets . |
| 30 | But a closer look at the data revealed many examples of different kinds of combinations strategy which were constructed jointly within the pair . |