Example sentences of "which [was/were] [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were also four federal councils of 165 members , which were themselves sub-councils of a big federal council of 660 ; one of these sub-councils prepared the business for the others , a job which probably rotated . |
| 2 | Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " . |
| 3 | When asked which was her favourite of her books , she said : ‘ Well , I do really rather like ‘ Manservant and Maidservant ’ . ’ |
| 4 | After reading a letter about youths and unemployment , the gist of which was their unwillingness to work , I was incensed by the statement , ‘ Even if they applied for a job in the catering industry , it would be something ’ . |
| 5 | We still made a certain amount of buckets and bins and things like that which was their stock in trade , but mostly it was erm was erm bomb fins and mortar bombs aerial bombs erm er and er things like er fins for bombs like that . |
| 6 | Which was their sort of way of making fun of you because you were showing off which is what a native Orcadian thinks any of his contemporaries talking in English to anyone other than an English person . |
| 7 | What it did do , however , was to herald the potential use of sex crime allied to other explicitly sexual gossip , photographs of topless models and so on to become close to a ‘ soft porn package ’ which was its strategy in the ensuing circulation warfare . |
| 8 | Her death , and the pain it wrought in him , now generated the work which was his memorial to their youthful love . |
| 9 | Many of the most influential other union leaders , Thomas from the right wing , Bevin from the left-centre ( which was his position in those days ) , might have considerable doubt about the tactical skill of the miners ' leaders . |
| 10 | Harvey was clowning around pretending to be a gunman , which was his way of being sarcastic to me . |
| 11 | The house in Denbigh Terrace , which was his home during and after his marriage to Kristen Tomassi , had been progressively colonised by the office ; Nik Powell took over the first floor ; board meetings were conducted in the lounge ; paperwork spilled into the bedrooms . |
| 12 | That threat of invasion was , however , removed , in 1805 , by the great naval victory at Trafalgar , in which Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the cost of his own life , This was followed by General Arthur Wellesley — who later became the Duke of Wellington — leading British troops into the Spanish Peninsula against Napoleon , who then began to experience considerable defeats , not the least of which was his retreat from Moscow in the winter of 1812 , and the following year saw the Duke of Wellington taking the war into France culminating in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 , which brought about the final defeat of Napoleon . |
| 13 | By nature , and before he went to Ireland , whose problems affected the characters and ruined the careers of many another English administrator before and since , Jeremy Taylor was a very humane man , and it may be appropriate to leave him by quoting a story which was his conclusion to The Liberty of Prophesying : |
| 14 | The first challenge to the regime came from the Earl of Lancaster who perhaps felt that Mortimer had denied him the authority which was his due as chief councillor to the king . |
| 15 | But him being from up there and my mother also and their people were still alive which was my grandparents on both sides they were very reluctant to sort of go . |
| 16 | My friend , however , was adamant that we had both been abused in some way , though not sexually , which was my understanding of abuse . |
| 17 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , like everyone else we wonder how we can ever afford to replace the time expired capital equipment and infrastructure which was our legacy from the past 20 years of neglect . |