Example sentences of "which [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxically , it was the grain-surplus areas which were most at risk of severe deprivation and periodic famine . |
| 2 | To complete the picture of railways in this area one should add that the quite successful Leominster & Kington Railway was opened in 1862 and eventually had various extensions and branches , some of which were already under discussion when Kington was reached . |
| 3 | Rover 's policy of utilising parts which were already in production for a different model when building a new vehicle is particularly useful in places where spares are not as readily available . |
| 4 | The danger is to exaggerate their importance , as it seems clear that their actions tended to give the final blow to communities which were already in decay rather than to destroy those which were flourishing . |
| 5 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 6 | It was at this time that Asgerjorn resigned his membership of the SI , although he continued to finance it through the sale of his paintings which were increasingly in demand in the 1960s . |
| 7 | Mines which were primarily of gold or silver were in a different category entirely , however . |
| 8 | The painted texts , which emphasized the importance of the Word , were intended as an aid to devotion , and were more readily seen than the Bibles , which were also on display in every church . |
| 9 | New demands on management led to some confusion as to whether there were in existence models which were still of value . |
| 10 | Mr Nigel Griffiths , Labour consumer affairs spokesman , asked why Mr Forth had refused a ban on the eggs , which were still on sale . |
| 11 | These included an ageing Soviet-supplied 8-megawatt plant ; a 50-megawatt and a 200-megawatt plant , both of which were still under construction ; and a 5-megawatt natural uranium experimental facility , the existence of which had previously been unknown internationally . |
| 12 | The PRD said that 52 of its activists had been killed since the July 1988 general election but that most of the murders had taken place since the municipal elections in December 1989 , the results of which were still in contention in many towns . |
| 13 | We came into the garden through a small wrought-iron gate under an arch of beautiful white roses , some of which were still in flower . |
| 14 | AFHQ itself , however , had by this time issued a number of order and signals in respect of both groups which were potentially in conflict . |
| 15 | Recently , however , it has been pointed out that mansi absi were often registered as owing dues , which were always in cash rather than labour services . |
| 16 | Were not adolescents being courted , persuaded and , where possible , forced to adopt modes of behaviour acceptable to established political and cultural authorities ( which were often in conflict with those of their parents ) ? |
| 17 | The allegations , made in the Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad , implicated the Civil Co-operation Bureau , the activities of which were currently under investigation by the Harms commission [ see p. 37234 ] . |
| 18 | Librarians claimed that it was extremely difficult to predict a ‘ useful book ’ , in research terms , and that those who retained only titles which were currently in demand would create serious problems for future researchers . |
| 19 | These losses were largely put down to aggressive lending to domestic property and corporate sectors , both of which were now in recession . |
| 20 | Hitherto , foreign investment had been encouraged through the establishment of joint ventures , 3,000 of which were now in existence . |
| 21 | The Court found that the government could legitimately return assets which were now in state ownership ; however , it objected to proposals to accompany the return of confiscated lands with payment of only partial compensation to present private owners ( principally farm co-operatives ) . |
| 22 | There was also a requirement to maintain consistency with past practice by generally following the file references of the departments which were then in use . |
| 23 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 24 | At the conference of the Non-Aligned held in Managua in January 1983 the Cuban Foreign Minister , Malmierca , argued that the Falklands War ‘ proved to Latin Americans that their instruments and means of collective defence with the United States , which were supposedly for protection against extrahemispheric powers , are nothing but mechanisms to be used when Washington 's interests are threatened by pro-independence actions in any of our states ’ . |
| 25 | We have in the past raised this through the er Association of County Councils in the education side , with and we , there was quite a lot of support , and also have had support in the past from er , Kenneth Carlyle and Douglas Howe erm who were , supported the view , er which was particularly in relation to youth training , as this is more adult training we 're talking about here . |
| 26 | On the expenditure side , the federal government allocated 460 billion dinars to defence , and a further 106 billion dinars to pension funds , much of which was probably in respect of pensions of military personnel and veterans . |
| 27 | 19.27 ) , which was clearly in operation at the time of Jeremiah ( Jer. 9.26 ) . |
| 28 | The Pier Head incident proved to be the turning point which led to a new period of industrial peace within the giant Vehicle Division , unfortunately too late to avoid the massive investment switch to the Continent which was already under way with the newly approved corporate plan . |
| 29 | In 1987 the Compagnie du Midi , the French financial and insurance group , moved to acquire British life insurer Equity & Law , which was also under siege from the New Zealand entrepreneur Sir Ron Brierley , whose interests owned 29.6 per cent of Equity & Law . |
| 30 | Overall , if one aggregates those three things , the level of settlement for the county was down thirty- one per cent on the year , compared with a national total , which was also in distress of fourteen and a half per cent down . |