Example sentences of "which was [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 2 | My first machine cost £22 , which was just slightly less than I earned in a month at the office . |
| 3 | On Dec. 6 he introduced further austerity measures designed to increase revenue ( which was anyway significantly less than originally forecast ) by 200,000 drachmas . |
| 4 | At this infusion rate the median acid output in the H pylori positive duodenal ulcer patients was 37 ( range 8.5–57 ) , which was about twice that of the H pylori positive healthy volunteers ( p<0.02 ) and six times that of the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 5 | It was they who were the defenders , not the aggressors , the men pushed by fear of extermination into acts which they knew came dangerously close to that disturbance of the social order which was almost as much to be feared . |
| 6 | I had to buy The People and The News of the World which was then even more of a scandal sheet than it is today . |
| 7 | Calculating frankness is very different from the spontaneous variety ; there was some fatal extra dimension in his objectivity , which was much more that of a novelist before a character than of even the oldest , most changed man before his own real past self . |
| 8 | Setting his face towards the barrow , which was still perhaps half a mile away in dramatic relief against the angry sky , he had the feeling that he was bring followed ; that wherever he went , and no matter how fast he covered the ground , his every move was shadowed . |