Example sentences of "which [was/were] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |
| 2 | Together , these two initiatives exhibit most of the features which were to characterise Conservative policies towards the inner cities for the rest of the decade : |
| 3 | The present pattern of Business Studies degrees , in many respects , reflects the state of thinking of commerce degrees of the late 30s , most of which had disappeared by or soon after 1950 , in favour of a more discipline-oriented approach in which there were substantial new elements , with the appearance of sociology and politics , both of which were to acquire greater prominence . |
| 4 | Important innovations were introduced by the 1919 Act , which were to have far-reaching implications . |
| 5 | The 19th century saw two significant changes in the newspaper industry which were to have considerable impact on future developments . |
| 6 | These were the attitudes which were to gain official acceptance after the change in British Communist leadership in December 1929 . |
| 7 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 8 | Issues which were to influence subsequent events and eventually lead to a national curriculum are specified : first , that the curriculum is overcrowded and the timetable overloaded ; secondly , that pupils who move from one school to another are penalized because of curricular variations between schools ; thirdly , that curricular arrangements within each school tend to give rise to unequal curricular opportunities for pupils ; fourthly , that the school curriculum is not sufficiently relevant for life in a modern industrial society ; and fifthly , that there are evident weaknesses in existing assessment procedures and methods of recording pupil progress . |
| 9 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 10 | Commissioned by Chapman & Hall , not as a novel but as the letterpress for a series of comic designs by Robert Seymour , 4 of which were to appear each month , about a club of sporting characters ; at that date novels were not published in monthly parts , a form commonly used for illustrated works . |
| 11 | Anatoly Chubais , the Committee 's chairman , explained the ways in which the privatization vouchers might be used : ( i ) workers could acquire shares in their own enterprise ; ( ii ) vouchers could be used at auction to buy shares in enterprises which were to become joint stock companies ; ( iii ) vouchers could be spent via private investment funds which would be intermediaries in share purchasing ; or ( iv ) vouchers could be sold for cash . |
| 12 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 13 | A theory of ducal sovereignty was in effect to be formulated between 1294 and 1300 , which was to set important precedents for other peers and magnates of France to follow . |
| 14 | The emperor 's death in its turn alienated his supporters , most notably the Gallo-Roman Aegidius , who began an independent career in Soissons , in the north of Gaul , which was to hold some significance for the early history of the Franks . |
| 15 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) That the prohibition in regulation 143 on the making of orders ‘ forthwith ’ applied only to an order which was to take immediate effect , and not to a suspended order which took effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Board ; and that , accordingly , a suspended order did not contravene the regulation ( post , pp. 199G , 202B–C , H — 203A , B–D ) . |
| 17 | The new plan , which was to take immediate effect , did not , unlike its predecessor , envisage civil service salary cuts . |
| 18 | So wrote Betty Friedan , who was a suburban housewife in the act of writing the book which was to shatter this image . |
| 19 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 20 | The current story was about the innocent yet ignorant mistake the Scottish Chamber Orchestra had made in promoting their presentation of Stravinsky 's ‘ The Soldier 's Tale ’ which was to include professional dancers and actors and local schoolchildren who had been invited to participate . |
| 21 | This group then went on to set up the Teifi Valley Economic and Social Regeneration Project ( TVESRP ) , the aim of which was to undertake more projects which would create employment in that part of Dyfed . |
| 22 | As de Groot ( 1983 ) reports , 90 per cent of the lad area was declared a national park in 1959 and the Charles Darwin Research Station was established in 1960 on Santa Cruz Island , the aim of which was to undertake scientific research and to begin a programme of goat eradication . |
| 23 | This type of inspection chamber may also be fitted with a ventilator with a hinged mica flap — the idea of which was to let fresh air into the drains but not let foul air out . |
| 24 | Others have cast the Vikings as archetypical " market-men " ( perhaps the literal meaning of the word Viking : wic-ing ) , releasers of hoarded wealth , stimulators of social movement and peasant production : in short , as agents and prime movers of the economic growth which was to characterise western Europe in the High Middle Ages . |
| 25 | His appointment as a Bishop , was in the immediate aftermath of the closing of the Second Vatican Council ; which was to pose new challenges to the whole Church as she sought to renew herself under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit . |
| 26 | Thus began the French phase of the Vietnam conflict which was to last eight years . |
| 27 | which was to last six months , made the ‘ Reel Around The Fountain ’ accusations seem trivial by comparison . |
| 28 | The following year , while Howard was on a tour of prisons in Europe which was to last 14 months , his son became psychotic . |
| 29 | The results were momentous ; a British force landed by itself , defeated the nationalists and began an occupation which was to last seventy years . |
| 30 | It is worth noting that what began for Victoria as admiration , tinged with a degree of condescension , developed over the years into genuine friendship and a respect for Eugénie 's character which was to link both sovereigns ever more closely until the Queen 's death in 1901 . |