Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Programmes which were made for a general public of native speakers of the language will obviously not be graded for use with language students . |
| 2 | The meeting was reported to have seen differences between Syria , Iraq , Sudan and Libya on the one hand , which were pushing for a more intransigent Arab League position , and the Gulf states on the other , which spoke out for " international legitimacy " ( according to Radio Monte Carlo on April 30 ) . |
| 3 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 4 | Species that were numerous around the boat and which were caught for a cursory examination only ’ were released again alive , ‘ the operation ’ , Gould maintained , giving ‘ not the least pain to the bird , the point of the hook merely taking hold in the horny and insensible tip of the beak . ’ |
| 5 | The label 's ‘ Shostakovich Film Festival ’ ( ) is music from The Gadfly , Five Days and Five Nights , Hamlet — and , more dubiously , the Tahiti Trot ( which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it — there 's no evidence he ever saw the son , better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be ) , and the First Piano Concerto ( some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933 ! ) . |
| 6 | CND had planned a number of marches in London for that summer but they were affected by a ban on all public processions ( other than those traditionally held ) in the Metropolitan Police District which was imposed for a twenty-eight-day period by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , with the consent of the Home Secretary , under section 3 of the Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 7 | The principal method is to use a video-recording device which was developed for a study of fluent braille , supported by the ESRC ( 1984–1986 ) . |
| 8 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 9 | Alf Clark of the Modern Sequence Dance Club said that the stage took up too much room in the hall which was created for a much smaller population than the village now has . |
| 10 | But he soon became convinced that the herpes virus , which was thought for a while to be associated with cancer , had in reality nothing to do with the disease . |
| 11 | Flo which was bought for a tenth of the price of which dino was sold has scored 5 goals in 6–7 matches and dino ( saurus ? ) has notched one — hey — even i could have scored on that one : - ) ; - ) |
| 12 | Finally , the £500 judges ' discretionary prize was divided between WaterAid which was commended for a coordinating cover and back-page tear off donation slip and telephone counsellors The Samaritans whose report was praised for spot colouring vital statistics and a single telephone conversation which ran through the right-hand pages of the report , thereby encouraging readers to finish it . |
| 13 | By the time he had climbed out of the valley and over the pass on a day which was fretting for a thunderstorm , he was boiling with the need to act . |