Example sentences of "which was [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This definition was summed up in the formula libertas ecclesiae , by which was understood the independence of the Church from all lay interference in ecclesiastical appointments , in the exercise of the Church 's spiritual functions , in the administration of its temporal rights and properties , and in the immunity of clerical persons from secular jurisdiction . |
| 2 | In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 . |
| 3 | The men then unloaded the corn into the side bays each of which was called the gof — or goafstead . |
| 4 | With the distinction between Competition Sports Cars and Prototypes disappearing , a new championship was introduced in 1972 which was called the World Championship for Makes for Prototype Sports Cars ( Group 5 ) and GT Cars ( Group 4 ) . |
| 5 | Two of the company worked , at the same time , on an educational project , funded by the Hamlyn Foundation , which was called the Rock Me Amadeus Roadshow . |
| 6 | I think communications has been the biggest change that I saw , erm er from a system which was called the DX system , which is really a very primitive way of calling people by means of generating electric current over some private wires , to fireman 's houses and on to fire station . |
| 7 | The photographs were arranged behind glass in a small anteroom above the door of which was printed the legend : ‘ The Martyrs of Hama ’ . |
| 8 | A closely related substance , which was given the name Sontochin , was also laid aside . |
| 9 | St James 's University Hospital in Leeds , where the TV series is filmed , is expected to take up the proposal for self-governing trusts in NHS hospitals which was given the go-ahead in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 10 | The great thirteenth-century tithe barn , built of stone quarried near the site , was originally the property of Beaulieu Abbey , which was granted the manor of Faringdon by King John . |
| 11 | Beamish had formed the provocatively titled Judaic Publishing Company , which was renamed the Britons Publishing Company in August 1922 . |
| 12 | In the last section reference was made to the way in which the Unemployment Assistance Board , which was renamed the Assistance Board in 1940 , took over various functions from the public assistance committees in the early part of the war . |
| 13 | The rise in unemployment in the early 1970s brought about even more improvements in the scheme which was renamed the Employment Transfer Scheme in 1972 . |
| 14 | For the first 9 years , the wagons were pulled by relays of horses but in 1820 the Duke of Portland bought Scotland 's first steam locomotive , which was named The Duke . |
| 15 | The steward was not left to mourn that his bottles found no custom : there was treating and return treating , and one humble Highlander who could sing Gaelic songs was made the sink into which was poured the spirits bought by sundry odd pence ; and , to the satisfaction of those who deem it a noble accomplishment the filling a man drunk , this Celt was brought into that pitiable condition , and manifested the power of the spirits over his brain in rather a curious way , — he was for kissing all round . |
| 16 | In Britain they failed to convert more than a faction of the Labour party , which was outvoted the year after it won its victory at the party conference . |
| 17 | McNamara is a 29 per cent partner in the joint venture company , Nodeco , which was awarded the £511 million contract in 1990 to build the support structure . |
| 18 | There was no reference to Indonesia which was allotted the status of a colony . |
| 19 | The Roman Research Trust , which was left the manor in Mrs Barrie Brown 's will says the cost of conversion in line with her wishes was too high . |
| 20 | The PFA challenged the retain-and-transfer system in the courts and lost in 1912 , to which was added the indignity of needing financial help from the League to pay the costs of the case . |
| 21 | What is surprising is that the group which was told the topic immediately after the reading was not able to make any use of the information ; they did just as poorly as the " no topic " group . |
| 22 | They called the islands of Great Britain ‘ the Cassiterides ’ — from which was derived the name for tin oxide , cassiterite . |
| 23 | During its restoration , a storm blew down a huge walnut tree in the roots of which was found the church 's bell , one of the oldest in Hungary . |