Example sentences of "which was [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place Barn , Wilmington , Polegate , East Sussex Place Barn , Wilmington , is flint-walled barn which was formerly attached to Priory Farm at the head of the hill that leads out of the village to the South Downs . |
| 2 | The visitor came from Surrey and brought with him a bat , which was duly presented to me — my first cricket bat ! |
| 3 | It is difficult to understand why this screen — which was presumably intended to be a close-boarded fence — was needed , as the turnpike road is some distance away , one field beyond the other side of the river . |
| 4 | Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest . |
| 5 | A period of rather dull winter training in Cyrenaica ensued , but by the spring his battery , now detached from the rest of the regiment ( which was in the rear , and which was later withdrawn to Egypt ) , was again in action . |
| 6 | As a reaction against anthropomorphic interpretations , there grew up a movement devoted to explaining animal behaviour in mechanistic terms , a movement which was later extended to human behaviour . |
| 7 | Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard . |
| 8 | But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish . |
| 9 | They even brought with them the distinctive knocker which was later returned to Oxford in the late nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Initially he was treated with ganciclovir for 3 months , which was later changed to foscarnet for lack of response and presumed resistance . |
| 11 | It referred to the regional strategy which is currently out for consultation but was an emerging document and copies of that were again appended to the briefing paper it outlined the county council 's procedures which were followed in progress in the structure plan it outlined a programme establishing the weight of opinion of objectors it indicated our process in preparing policy amendments to be put to the panel and all those matters were made public It also requested the panel 's view on the role of county council members at the enquiry in public the responses to that were not made public and were in fact a question which was clearly put to the panel . |
| 12 | By 1989 , he was publicly proclaiming his intention of imitating Albania and anchoring a ban on foreign loans in the constitution , which was clearly going to be more binding on his successors than himself . |
| 13 | In 1768 he patented a method for hardening and preserving wood , which was effectively applied to several warships and publicized by an eight-page advertisement ( 1770 ) ; it describes thirty-one items tested at his Great Tower Hill works , ranging from brewing implements and wooden pipes for London waterworks to twenty-five gun-carriages treated for the Tower of London garrison . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , however , a good many East Indiamen were unable to enter the Bay of Bengal , which was effectively restricted to vessels whose bottoms had been plated with copper to prevent damage from marine worms . |
| 15 | Officers took unkindly to being reformed by a self-educated and self-appointed expert in civil-military relations ; many , retired and active alike , began to conspire against a Republic which was increasingly seen to be not only anti-military but also ‘ soft ’ on the two issues that most obsessed military minds : regionalism and public order . |
| 16 | After only 4000 reactor years worldwide , Chernobyl approached the worst conceivable nuclear reactor accident , which was previously estimated to be of a probability somewhere near 1 in 10,000 or even I in a million per reactor year . |
| 17 | one of the books of the Old Testament , the authorship of which was traditionally ascribed to King Solomon . |
| 18 | It came from statesmen and reformers who held that entails , by precluding a free market in land , artificially raised its value so that investment became unprofitable ; it was a hindrance to a wider diffusion of ownership , which was universally held to be a precondition of increased production . |
| 19 | Trompf also cites examples of reenactment in Hebrew historiography , such as the crossing of the Jordan in Joshua , which was consciously likened to the traversing of the Red Sea in Exodus , and the similarity of the Babylonian exile to the earlier Egyptian bondage . |
| 20 | That point enables me to raise with the Minister the matter of aid to mining areas , which was also referred to by my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth . |
| 21 | It provided that the cost of a benefit consisting of the provision of any service or facility which was also provided to the public ( i.e. , in-house benefits ) should be the price which the public paid for such facility or service . |
| 22 | A : If you already have a Sun Alliance Hospital Income policy , which was also offered to you with a guaranteed acceptance , you will not be able to claim benefits under both policies . |
| 23 | Yes , but if you already have a Sun Alliance Personal Accident Policy , which was also offered to you with guaranteed acceptance , you will not be able to claim benefits under both Policies . |
| 24 | An unknown number of East Germans were believed to have entered the West German mission in East Berlin , which was officially closed to the public , and others to have gone to the West German Embassy in Sofia , Bulgaria . |
| 25 | But for this there was a price to pay : when I was n't being ignored completely , I was being made fun of , especially in regard to my physical appearance which was frequently compared to that of a twelve-year-old boy . |
| 26 | The cause of the emergency admissions and prolonged stay was not due to the procedure itself , but due to pain , which was invariably related to bile leaks that occurred late in the course of the recovery . |
| 27 | There was no time to write a libretto from scratch , so Guardasoni proposed an adaptation of Metastasio 's La clemenza di Tito ( the Clemency of Titus ) which was generally felt to be suitable for the occasion . |
| 28 | I became famous ( or notorious ) for my diary , which I kept up assiduously , and which was generally believed to be full of scandal of the sort the school authorities would not like to see appear in the newspapers . |
| 29 | The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable . |
| 30 | The new government was composed of representatives from an alliance between the multiracial Fiji Labour Party and the National Federation Party which was closely allied to the interests of those of Indian extraction who slightly outnumbered the Melanesian population . |