Example sentences of "which were [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes after their formal prayers , which were said a minimum of five times a day , they continued to sit with their feet in front of them while they carried on long conversations with God . |
| 2 | and yet there 's another week left , one of which were gone a week into er the last week of February that er |
| 3 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 4 | Also challenging American values as the new decade turned , the themes of Easy Rider were repeated with considerable success , and mercifully Five Easy Pieces was devoid of drugs , which were becoming a bore . |
| 5 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 6 | On the 5th January 1733 , Mrs Bridget Briggs in her will left certain properties in the vicinity of Sheffield , two thirds of the rent of which were to build a schoolhouse and school to educate ten poor boys and ten poor girls of Sproatley ; other children were to be educated there , but to pay for their instruction . |
| 7 | They omitted from their calculations two factors which were to make a nonsense of their plans . |