Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The 19th century saw two significant changes in the newspaper industry which were to have considerable impact on future developments . |
| 32 | Kibona said that 42 per cent of government spending would be devoted to tackling transport and communications problems , which were hindering economic recovery . |
| 33 | These were the attitudes which were to gain official acceptance after the change in British Communist leadership in December 1929 . |
| 34 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 35 | But the collapse of the junk-bond market is a big blow to the scores of companies which were planning new offerings . |
| 36 | The Conference is the forum where Resolutions which were submitted last December and which were discussed at over 50 District Meetings around the country since then were finally put to the vote of the delegates and , if passed , thereby became a cornerstone of Association policy . |
| 37 | Breakfast was served in a long , low-ceilinged room , with a deep fireplace , on which were roasting several animals which Snodgrass said , in an awed whisper to Fenella , were oxen . |
| 38 | Pressures and activities of this kind were a facet of the increasingly active discussion of problems of international peace , and the ways in which it might be preserved , which were preoccupying many radicals and idealists in western Europe during the last decades before the war . |
| 39 | On Aug. 22 some 30,000 workers protested in Brasov ( Romania 's second largest city ) about shortages of raw materials which were paralysing machine-building factories , and poor working conditions and food supplies . |
| 40 | Issues which were to influence subsequent events and eventually lead to a national curriculum are specified : first , that the curriculum is overcrowded and the timetable overloaded ; secondly , that pupils who move from one school to another are penalized because of curricular variations between schools ; thirdly , that curricular arrangements within each school tend to give rise to unequal curricular opportunities for pupils ; fourthly , that the school curriculum is not sufficiently relevant for life in a modern industrial society ; and fifthly , that there are evident weaknesses in existing assessment procedures and methods of recording pupil progress . |
| 41 | There were two key components to this , there were things that er were labelled feature demons and there were things which were labelled cognitive demons . |
| 42 | It follows the company 's 1.6″ high 0663 , 250,000 of which were shipped last year according to IBM . |
| 43 | She reached for one of the freshly laundered robes which were supplied each day for users of the pool . |
| 44 | THE RESULTS of the June agricultural census for 1992 , which were published last week by the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department , show substantial increases in the areas of wheat , oilseed rape , and fallow land . |
| 45 | The weather was kind for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Henley Golf Club which were held last weekend and large numbers of members and friends attended and were very appreciative of the arrangements which had been made . |
| 46 | This drive to help people back to work is equally evident in the success of the Job Search Seminars which were held this year and funded by Employment Services . |
| 47 | Rumour was rife in 1588 and this was the time , armed with the deathbed testimony of Mrs Barnes , and the cutting taken from the drapes of Littlecote ( incidentally , the cutting was found to fit the curtains which were sold many years later as a memento to an American ) , that the lawyers , probably headed by Anthony Brooks , tried to charge Darrel in court . |
| 48 | Like all Mercantile and General-owned farms , two of which were sold last year and a fourth is also under offer , it had been well-maintained . |
| 49 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 50 | On the wall nearby was a notice-board to which were pinned various notes and lists , telephone numbers , business cards and two concert tickets . |
| 51 | Commissioned by Chapman & Hall , not as a novel but as the letterpress for a series of comic designs by Robert Seymour , 4 of which were to appear each month , about a club of sporting characters ; at that date novels were not published in monthly parts , a form commonly used for illustrated works . |
| 52 | The Wolfson Archaeological Science Laboratories , which were opened last year in the first phase of the institute 's development plan , represent the latest advances in archaeology and incorporate modern developments in technology . |
| 53 | One dairy farm he visited on the way to Albuquerque had 750 cows which were milked three times a day through a 24/24 side-exit herringbone parlour . |
| 54 | One pair of blue jeans , faded , American label , in the pockets of which were found two cinema tickets , one wallet , brown leather with a red painted design , containing … ’ |
| 55 | Marion has sent out questionnaires to some of the teachers who have used the site-based school packs which were introduced last year . |
| 56 | Anatoly Chubais , the Committee 's chairman , explained the ways in which the privatization vouchers might be used : ( i ) workers could acquire shares in their own enterprise ; ( ii ) vouchers could be used at auction to buy shares in enterprises which were to become joint stock companies ; ( iii ) vouchers could be spent via private investment funds which would be intermediaries in share purchasing ; or ( iv ) vouchers could be sold for cash . |
| 57 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 58 | Some of the authors were also aware of new approaches to the study of organic relationships that were being discussed in France and which were leading radical anatomists to challenge Cuvier 's authority . |
| 59 | BSDI 's response to the amended suit , which was served last Thursday , was to declare it ‘ totally without merit ’ and ‘ another step in [ USL 's ] harassment campaign . ’ |
| 60 | I mean , one 's , one 's entitled to ask I think if there is no problem , if we only have vacancies of two or three in our elderly persons homes throughout the county wh erm why on earth did the director of the social serv , did the director of social services and his deputy at the meeting on the twenty fifth of August of the social services committee , say that this was the greatest problem which was facing this council . |