Example sentences of "which [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The Divine Fire ( 1904 ) , which sold as a best seller in the United States , initiated her breakthrough as a novelist . |
2 | He said , yeah , there has , which came as a great relief to me and we left it at that . |
3 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
4 | He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro : £52.10 . |
5 | Two truck loads of clean-up equipment were sent from the Wytch Farm oil spill base at Poole and Wytch Farm later sent a helicopter which acted as a general observation platform . |
6 | The Slovak National Council on June 23 elected Ivan Gasparovic as its chair and thus chair of the Council 's presidium which acted as a republican presidency ( there being no Slovak President ) . |
7 | At one time , there was one high up on Etna which served as a convenient overnight refuge for geologists watching activity in the crater . |
8 | The sawgrass , which served as a vital part in the food chain , is being pushed back by cattails , a dense plant that thrives on the phosphate-rich water . |
9 | It is now A423 , which began as a prehistoric ridgeway along the watershed between the Cherwell and the Evenlode . |
10 | In Estreito da Calheta is the Church of Nossa Senhora da Graça which began as a sixteenth-century chapel , although the present church dates from 1791 to 1793 . |
11 | The group , which began as a four-way partnership in 1979 , is on the verge of lifting its stake in Carat , Europe 's largest independent media buying company , as part of its continuing metamorphosis . |
12 | 4 The Sympathetic Hearing Scheme , which started as a joint effort by the Panel of Four and is now administered by the British Association for the Hard of Hearing ( BAHOH ) . |
13 | High on the list of these successes is the Development Of Excellence Scheme which evolved as a direct result of the partnership between ESCA , the TCCB and the NCA . |
14 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
15 | The Situationists ' activities within the cultural sphere constituted an attempt to create a unified range of activities which functioned as a radical critique of the conventional boundaries between specialisations embedded in the institutions , practices and agencies of modern life . |
16 | As a permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment I was an accounting officer , which meant as a civil servant I was responsible directly to parliament , which also meant I regularly had to go before the Public Accounts Committee . |
17 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
18 | This amounts to de facto recognition of the unofficial strike committees which emerged as a real power during last summer 's disruption in the Siberian and Ukrainian coalfields . |
19 | A staggering 20,000 enquiries followed Pamela 's debut broadcast on the subject of Alar , which emerged as a potential carcinogen in an independent UK survey on pesticide technology ; and enquiries are still flooding in . |