Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was an advantage that was quite foreign to legacies , which were bound to their traditional procedural constraints . |
| 2 | Born in Belgium in 1903 , he easily acquired the sexual habits which were to lead to his eventual boast to have slept with 10,000 women — 8,000 of them prostitutes . |
| 3 | According to Kelly , Fang 's speech , ‘ displayed all the features which were to lead to his purge in 1987 ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 133 ) . |
| 4 | John Paul II described how he personally scrutinised successive drafts — 10 in all — which were presented for his consideration . |
| 5 | My Lords , having drafted this speech , I then had the pleasure and advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and concluded that I ought to refer to the company fraud cases which were canvassed before your Lordships , lest it be thought that the Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 statement of principle is inconsistent with a proper approach to such cases . |
| 6 | Voluntary grammar schools retained higher social status than the publicly financed ‘ higher elementary schools ’ , which were stigmatized by their association with the entirely working-class elementary schools . |
| 7 | According to the Financial Times of Sept. 19 , the Economic Committee would replace the majority of ministries , which were functioning under their deputy ministers after the resignation of the whole Cabinet in August [ ibid . ] . |
| 8 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 9 | Goods we cou which were manufactured in our countries . |
| 10 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |
| 11 | Ray Ranson , United 's skipper , was booked for his protests , which were maintained by his team-mates when Blackburn won possession and Mark Atkins headed down for David Speedie to score with a half-volley . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 13 | The part-braided ends of his long hair escaped from the busy fingers which were engaged in their intricate task . |
| 14 | The internal politics of the profession in a recession economy have not been resolved by this scheme ( Smith and Thomas 1978 ) but it illustrates the irrecon-cilable tensions between individual economic advancement , collegiate unity and community/client interest , tensions which were recognised by our respondents . |
| 15 | She expressed intense feelings of irritation and anger at this which were denied by her husband . |
| 16 | Proposals by de Maizière , which were supported by his East German CDU , by the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS — the successor to the Socialist Unity Party , the former ruling East German communist party ) and by the West German CDU , would have delayed unification until immediately after the elections . |
| 17 | As a result of this work on animals , methods were developed for assessing the health of the human foetus which were based on its breathing movements in the uterus . |
| 18 | Coming from upper Egypt he was known as saidi , and as such seen by his countrymen in lower Egypt as a proud , rather prickly personality , with a strong sense of his own dignity : qualities which were inherited by his son . |
| 19 | A fuller account of these debates will be given in chapter 6 , but the core of the dispute , as far as research methods were concerned , centred on whether sociological data was best collected by the use of surveys and questionnaires , which were regarded by their supporters as scientific and so more reliable , or by fieldwork involving participant observation . |
| 20 | Dennis Parsons was blessed with behavioural patterns which were etched into his brain like circuits in a microchip . |
| 21 | Childeric must have been subjected to many of the influences which were to impinge on his son . |
| 22 | The net outcome of his days in office were that about two hundred of the cases which were brought to his attention were treated with regard for human dignity , but the law affecting the rights of dependants and visitors was not changed ( except for one fairly minor aspect : in 1974 the sexually discriminatory ‘ Husbands Rule ’ was changed to allow women born or settled in Britain to have their foreign husbands here with them ) . |
| 23 | The mud crabs are an Australian delicacy and those who backed the winners were further rewarded with giant hampers of Queensland seafood , which were delivered to their homes after the cruise . |
| 24 | The increase in maximum width of these buildings from 30m ( 99ft ) in 1868 to 48m ( 158ft ) in 1905 was necessary in order to accommodate the longer mules which were enlarged to their technical optimum , consistent with rigidity , of 1,392 ( 116 dozen ) spindles . |
| 25 | Twenty years later , her collecting bug has paid off and she now has an unusual collection of antiques , most of which were bought for her previous home . |
| 26 | The government also committed itself to meeting all the foreign exchange requirements of exploration companies , which were paid for their share of oil and gas in local currency . |
| 27 | The older boy was finishing a letter to his father in which the news of his downfall was carefully translated into a voluntary withdrawal from activities which were interfering with his studies . |
| 28 | Similarly , these continuing contests in the natural world were leading to areas which were specialised in their functions . |
| 29 | These changes occurred particularly in diagnostic services , which were excluded from our analysis . |
| 30 | Bodies which were buried with their legs bent in this way are termed crouched inhumations . |