Example sentences of "which [was/were] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influx of new upper-class members underlying these changes led to social innovations such as published listings of the gentry and members of ‘ Society ’ ( Scott , 1982 , p. 90 , citing Davidoff ) , which were a blatant example of social closure in their regulation of social acceptability and status among the propertied . |
| 2 | At a time when copper coinage had already been in use for some centuries at the heart of the Han empire , wealthy leaders of the tien community in the southern province of Yunnan were storing hundreds of thousands of cowries in the great bronze drums which were a prominent feature of the Dong-Son culture focussed on northern Indo-China . |
| 3 | The precise costing of the alternatives was difficult ( particularly since the nationalised rail and coal industries both refused to give guidance on their future prices which were a crucial element in the analysis ) , but by 1950 a working party chaired by Sayers concluded that , on balance , a higher-voltage superimposed network — Citrine insisted it be more elegantly referred to as the ‘ Supergrid ’ — would be worthwhile . |
| 4 | The majority of members travelled by train and then cab , the fares for which were a regular source of comment . |
| 5 | Alexei guessed that if Burun wished to discredit him with Artai he only had to link his name with any one of the intrigues which were a constant background to the life of the court . |
| 6 | This ability was sharpened by these players ' meetings , which were a unique feature of football at this time . |
| 7 | To make the point , he cites the example of the latest Ford Fiesta , the tooling costs for which were a massive £700million . |
| 8 | While they were being asked to trim investment , the Government 's own policies were creating additional needs for investment in electricity distribution : airfields and other new defence installations for the Korean mobilisation , for example , required new electricity mains , as did the new housing estates which were a vital part of Labour 's drive for electoral popularity . |
| 9 | Six sectors down ten percent , that of course included investment banking which we have n't touched on , but er the Lazard Houses profits were down a little less than ten percent which is rather good going , given their erm heavy specialist skills in M and A which were a little bit in short supply last year . |
| 10 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |
| 11 | Aristotle derives it from " phallic songs " , which were a common constituent of Greek fertility ritual and would have been sung to or for a particular fertility god : this would usually , though not perhaps invariably , have been Dionysus . ) |
| 12 | Such conditions led to areas of swamp which were a natural trap for unwary animals which ventured to the river to drink . |
| 13 | Your Chairmanship of the Trustees of the National Gallery ( 1985–91 ) coincided with important changes in the nature of British national museums which were a direct consequence of Mrs Thatcher 's desire to increase accountability and reduce spending in the public sector . |
| 14 | Education Committees , which were a statutory part of every Local Authority , were extremely influential through their joint body , the Association of Education Committees . |
| 15 | Held , dismissing the applications , that prior to 1873 judges sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts ; that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors in respect of fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court by section 16 of the Judicature Act 1873 and retained there by section 18 of the Judicature Act 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ; and that , accordingly , there was no jurisdiction to hear the applications for judicial review ( post , pp. 1007D–E , G — 1008A , 1010B ) . |
| 16 | This analysis of the history of the visitors ' jurisdiction before 1873 makes it quite clear , in our judgment , that when the judges were sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred they were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts . |
| 17 | In the detailed researches of Malcolmson and others there is ample illustration of the vigour of recreational forms which were an essential part of a plebeian culture , consideration of which is central to an understanding of the social relations of the period . |
| 18 | The ceremonial accoutrements which were an essential accompaniment to the sacrificial procedure were also all of significant colour ( scarlet wool , hyssop , cedar wood — Exod. |
| 19 | His career should have reached its climax in the great Franco-Scottish chateaux of Fonthill ( 1849 ) for the Duke of Westminster and Buchanan ( 1851–53 ) for the Duke of Montrose , but the first was built only in a much reduced and quite different form while Buchanan suffered from the late substitution of plate glass for the mullioned windows which were an indispensable element of his style . |
| 20 | They lost their ‘ little treats ’ and ‘ extras ’ which were an important bonus of paid employment . |
| 21 | Lowland areas were not only important for pasture ; seasonal flooding of such areas attracted large numbers of wildfowl which were an important source of food in such localities for a very long time . |
| 22 | Although innovation in particular cases had fostered very high population densities , it was the absence of population growth resulting from both the slave trade and the incidence of disease that provided little general incentive to intensify systems which were an adequate response to the difficulties of the environment . |
| 23 | He bought the eighteenth-century Letheringsett Hall from the Breretons , and in 1808 engulfed it in Greece , adding this south front of giant Doric columns , which were an exact copy of the temple of Delos on Isis . |
| 24 | Single-handedly she produced a report which was a masterly review of the nursing practice in London — and its shortcomings — in 1874 . |
| 25 | Certainly , circulating in the world of the 1670s , the poem can be seen as important to groups of Protestant dissenters , offering them a visionary politics founded both on the scripturally based structure of history they favoured but also by appropriating and re-employing the scriptural Word which was a familiar practice of their own revolutionary writing . |
| 26 | Apart from Bob Cole 's homebuilt HM293 G-AXPG which was a familiar site at PFA fly-ins in the early 70s , and believed to be still in store , no other versions of the Flea have flown in the UK since the War . |
| 27 | Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | The hall at the bottom of the stairs was a tiny square , a door on one side opened to what had been designed as the best parlour , but was now converted to a waiting-room for the surgery , which was a lean-to structure at the back . |
| 29 | They were in bed , which was a suitable place for erotic thoughts ; but now was hardly the right time . |
| 30 | We never had this problem years ago , I mean it 's only do-gooders who stopped the stuff we used to use years ago which was a reasonable price , who 's caused all these problems . |