Example sentences of "which was [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 2 | A small crowd had gathered round , buzzing with the excitement which was breaking the dull monotony of the day . |
| 3 | That did not change till the Peloponnesian War , one effect of which was to erode the Corinthian middle class . |
| 4 | In 1907 , Sheaffer went one better and invented the lever filler , which was patented the following year . |
| 5 | He organised a demonstration on 19 September 1954 , out of which was born the National Liberation Movement ( NLM ) , a name which in the past the LPP had employed . |
| 6 | In 1986 the leader of the Labour Party , Neil Kinnock , telephoned Malcolm Turnbull , the lawyer representing Peter Wright during the Spycatcher trial in Australia which was causing the British government and the security services endless embarrassment . |
| 7 | Paralleling the Commission was the Council of Ministers , the organ of the national governments , which was to carry the main burden of coordinating policies . |
| 8 | The DAR were very snazz at what they did , which was remembering the founding fathers , upholding the traditional American way of life and torturing and killing people . |
| 9 | Although , from time to time , some of our colleagues on the shop floor who ran into difficulties you know , er sometimes described you as a tool of management , er which was to say the least you know , er entirely untrue . |
| 10 | For sinners , the death-bed was the stage on which was played the last act of the impending tragedy . |
| 11 | The fortunes of the Trelawney family , which was to include the famed bishop , and the Bullers , to include Sir Redvers Buller of Boer War fame , stemmed largely from the downfall of the Winslade family , long holders of the manor of Tregarrick . |
| 12 | Further changes were requested , one of which was to include the Scottish Crown in the four corners of the carpet , reflecting the one used on the ceiling of the Throne Room . |
| 13 | In that context , is not the continued closure of Bir Zeit university , which was announced the other day , an intolerable provocation , and should not it be condemned ? |
| 14 | The same critical and questioning attitude which was forming the new approach to the Bible was at the same time stimulating scientific study and experiment and discovering the regularities in the natural order — what were and commonly still are called ‘ the laws of nature ’ . |
| 15 | West of the town is Torbane , the location where James Young discovered the oil shale which was given the geological name Torbanite ( see Broxburn ) . |
| 16 | With a nice sense of timing the University allocated two extra rooms to the Collection , adjacent to the existing stackroom , one of which was designated the Old Vic Room . |
| 17 | They see the war as an unequal contest between a 30-nation coalition and a lone Arab country , the purpose of which was to destroy the only Arab state capable of standing up to Israel . |
| 18 | Off the shoreward side of the platform debris fell which was to form the two billion barrel Pozo Rica field . |
| 19 | The National Joint Council , which was renamed the National Council of Labour in 1934 , acquired a new constitution , whereby the General Council was allowed as many representatives as the other two organisations . |
| 20 | The clause on which they finally agreed and which was adopted the next day as part of the constitution , read instead : Persons who can hear , taking an active interest in the welfare or education of the deaf and dumb , shall be eligible for admission to ordinary membership on the recommendation of five ordinary members of the Association . |
| 21 | It formed the basis for the development of plant-level bargaining in the big factories , which was to characterize the Italian economy throughout the seventies . |
| 22 | From the mid-'70s to the mid-'80s it was increasing inequality which was to dominate the changing geography of manufacturing , and indeed of employment more generally . |
| 23 | By the 1840s the Bank of Prussia — which was to become the central bank for the expanding joint-stock and credit banking system — had been established with capital of over 11 million thalers . |
| 24 | The legislation which was to become the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , a long statute of 106 Sections and seven schedules , was the most comprehensive since the 1948 Act . |
| 25 | At Wood 's request , he also substantially revised the RIC manual , first issued in 1866 , and produced his own The Irish Constable 's Guide , which was to become the Irish policeman 's Bible . |
| 26 | For Adam Smith in 1776 , laying down the philosophical system which was to become the ideological underpinning of the market economy , they were the greatest obstruction placed on the movement of labour for they affected even common labour , while the regulations of guilds and corporations restricted the movement only of artisans . |
| 27 | The loco is 45106 which was to become the last of its type to remain in service . |
| 28 | Presumably that is why Philip chose precisely that moment to raise again the spectre which was to haunt the Old King 's last years . |
| 29 | The marriage , and the recruitment and endowment of the two Rhinelanders , had the same purpose : Charles wanted to strengthen his general position in the part of Francia which was to constitute the northeastern sector of his kingdom . |
| 30 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |